8 Tips For Designing Your Kitchen Cabinets
If you’ve shopped for new kitchen cabinets recently, you know that it’s often much more economical to refinish your old cabinets than to buy new ones. Here are 8 tips that will make your kitchen cabinet refinishing a huge success. 1. If your cabinets are painted, remove the paint with a chemical stripper. If your cabinets are stained or varnished, either clean the surface well or remove most of the stain or varnish with a chemical refinisher. 2. Take the doors off your cabinets and remove the handles and hardware. It will be much easier if you lay the doors flat to work on them. 3. Check to see how much damage there is to the cabinets. If there is only minor damage, such as dark stains around the door handles, just clean these areas. Use a synthetic steel wool pad because it won’t hurt your fingers or get caught on the wood grain.
4. Dip the pad in paint thinner, mineral spirits, or turpentine, and scrub the stains. Then lightly scrub the whole surface, cleaning and dulling it so the new finish will stick. 5. Once you’ve cleaned the surface and removed the dark stains, wipe on an oil-based, clear finish such as Minwax. 6. If you find you need to redo more than just a few stained areas, use a chemical refinisher – a strong solvent cleaner that dissolves and removes part of the old varnish. 7. When you’re using the chemical refinisher, work in small areas, and scrub the finish with a synthetic steel wool pad. 8. The cabinet’s surface should be smooth and evenly colored after you’ve scrubbed the whole surface.
Designing a kitchen is as much a science as it is an art. Knowing the recommended measurements to use in roofing can make all the difference in the final outcome. If you want to enjoy your newly-refinished, beautiful solar water heating for many years, you should probably follow the tips above.
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