Staining kitchen cabinets

anyone? thanks

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Rust-Oleum Transformations

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This shite is amazing!

Refinished every cabinet and vanity in a house I bought over a 3 day weekend. Looks like a factory finish.

It will be a ton of sanding, staining, sanding, staining, sealing work. Cabinets are even trickier because you have to take off all the doors and hardware to get to the wood, and there are a ton of corners and other small areas. Take your time, prep work is key, and it will turn out great. Mine are original to the house and had been painted a jet black color by one of the previous owners. We had them painted by a pro to a cream color with a weird finish added to it, and it totally lightened up the room. I would love to take them down to bare wood and stain them, but I'm just not patient enough and I have a laundry list of other things in my 50 year old house to address first.

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2/18/16 at 1:43 pm OP

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2/18/16 at 1:52 pm anyone?

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Hold your horses, Francis.

I bought some previously finished cabinets at the Habitat Restore and refinished them. It's pretty straight forward to do. Take them down, remove hardware, sand them, and finish how you want. I ended up painting mine.

One thing to note. Some cabinets have solid wood front and sides, but particle board bottoms and backs.

This is my kitchen, took about 4 days to do


Just kidding, I'm poor

Stained cabinets are not in style.

You want to paint them white or some other light color.

Not only is that MUCH, MUCH, easier than staining cabinets, which is a PITA, but it also avoids putting all that effort into something that's not desirable right now.

I'm in the process of painting mine right now. I just use kilz then paint.

sand, kilz, paint?

I didn't sand but I did clean them very well with TSP. You can get it at Home Depot and Lowe's.

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sand, kilz, paint?

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It's that simple, but time consuming. I did my kitchen and it took 4 weeks of spare time. I'm a perfectionist though, and I sanded ,primed, and painted everything, including the undersides of shelves and backs of the cabinets. I used an oil based primer and then latex finish.