Painting Cabinets
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Tim
There's lots of choices... and if you can do a search of the forum you will find several threads where people document what they use.
Here's one from Dec 2024: Painting Kitchen Cabinets
I expect there are more.
The search function is in the top right of the brown bar on the desktop version. Don't know about the mobile version.
There's lots of choices... and if you can do a search of the forum you will find several threads where people document what they use.
Here's one from Dec 2024: Painting Kitchen Cabinets
I expect there are more.
The search function is in the top right of the brown bar on the desktop version. Don't know about the mobile version.
Thanks. I'll check out the search when I get to my desktop
Not an expert but sherwin williams emerald urethane is good and they run constant sales.
I've heard kem-aqua from sherwin williams is great for sprayers too but i've never tried it.
I know I just finished spraying mine with Behr Marquee and I will never buy that garbage again. I was doing a refresh of some very 90s paneling and cabinets and I was not happy at all with the hide, coverage, or application compared to the ease of the parts that got sherwin williams emerald. I sprayed with a five stage fuji turbine and with a small bit of floetrol. The quality gap between the SW and Behr products was enormous and immediately apparent...
I've heard kem-aqua from sherwin williams is great for sprayers too but i've never tried it.
I know I just finished spraying mine with Behr Marquee and I will never buy that garbage again. I was doing a refresh of some very 90s paneling and cabinets and I was not happy at all with the hide, coverage, or application compared to the ease of the parts that got sherwin williams emerald. I sprayed with a five stage fuji turbine and with a small bit of floetrol. The quality gap between the SW and Behr products was enormous and immediately apparent...
I have sprayed SW KemAqua once and had no issues; it was a white and worked as well as the Target Coating I usually use, without me needing to adapt much if anything. No Floetrol..
I have not sprayed SW Emerald Urethane, but believe I have brushed and rolled it on a door (I forget exact product); that worked well too.
More important than the paint is what you're gonna spray with.
I painted my last kitchen remod with Target Coating pigmented lacquer. All I can say is don't do white. Many of my cabs exposed to light are yellowing. They make a clear top coat, a high build lacquer. If I were using TC I'd definitely top coat it. I used the cross linker.
I'm a lousy painter so I didn't do a good job. I think I didn't get it on thick enough.
@jlwest reminded me of something. I have a friend in the auto body business, who I asked about painting my cabs for me but he bailed, anyway, he painted the cabs in his shop with Rustoleum. Looks surprisingly good, but it is glossy.
I painted my last kitchen remod with Target Coating pigmented lacquer. All I can say is don't do white. Many of my cabs exposed to light are yellowing. They make a clear top coat, a high build lacquer. If I were using TC I'd definitely top coat it. I used the cross linker.
I'm a lousy painter so I didn't do a good job. I think I didn't get it on thick enough.
@jlwest reminded me of something. I have a friend in the auto body business, who I asked about painting my cabs for me but he bailed, anyway, he painted the cabs in his shop with Rustoleum. Looks surprisingly good, but it is glossy.
I used real auto paint.
I've never sprayed anything like this before. Actually , I've never made cabinets like this before.
I picked up a small HVLP sprayer from Harbor Freight for $35 on their Black Friday sale.
The guy at SW recommended an acrylic latex.
They didn't come out half bad for my first time doing it. They won't see sunlight where they're going so I'm not worried about that.
I picked up a small HVLP sprayer from Harbor Freight for $35 on their Black Friday sale.
The guy at SW recommended an acrylic latex.
They didn't come out half bad for my first time doing it. They won't see sunlight where they're going so I'm not worried about that.
Automotive paint will always give a superior finish on wood, at an exponentially superior price. It also offers the highest durability and UV protection.
On solid wood, the movement over wide surfaces can develop hairline cracks.
Best finish I ever sprayed was Automotive Acrylic Enamel.
SW Emerald works well I use a 3/11 or 3/10 tip. The trick is to paint at the same distance and same moving speed, then it lays down beautifully.
@Rwe2156 If I use pigmented lacquer I usually use chalk paint under it 1st, then I get the
opaque-ness and the hardness and smooth finish of lacquer. And because I use less Lacquer, I haven't had yellowing as an issue
@Rwe2156 If I use pigmented lacquer I usually use chalk paint under it 1st, then I get the
opaque-ness and the hardness and smooth finish of lacquer. And because I use less Lacquer, I haven't had yellowing as an issue
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I've had very good results with KemAqua
I used this paint several years ago to repaint our cabinets from white to more of an off white. I used a darker tan for the island. The final two coats were a polyacrylic for a rock hard finish. The off white is the best thing we ever did, much easier to keep clean and a far more durable finish than the factory.
If you can buy from Wurth, they carry the ML Campbell line. I sprayed my kitchen doors and drawer fronts with their conversion lacquer tinted to match our existing kitchen cabinetry carcasses using the cheap HF HVLP gun. Ten years later, despite a lot of kitchen activity, it still looks like new with no yellowing.
Their Conversion Varnish, (Post Cat) is the standard for high end cabinet manufacturers. Supposedly the highest rated finish made domestically. They have a range of products though.
M.L. Campbell is a registered trademark of Sherwin-Williams and operates as a brand under the parent company.
Wurth had an exclusive distribution deal at the time...not sure if that's still in place. Yes, I used the Post-Cat on top of their Clawlock primer. I don't even want to know how much it costs now.
