Need custom kitchen cabinet advice/help
Nick Anderson
9 years ago
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Need help with BM white paint for kitchen cabinets + need advice
Comments (14)@littlesmokie: Thanks for your thoughts and ideas and the link to the great blog! They were all helpful! Do I love the green accent? I like them, but I'm not sure if I love them.... @ :Having green in my kitchen was my sister's idea, and it took a little time to be okay with the thought until I saw the glass green tile. Still, I've had reservations. Do I wear green? Not so much. FYI, if it says anything, I have dark espresso hardwood floors; Coir color walls in living room; bathrooms with ivory travertine floors and walls and espresso shaker style cabinets and caesarstone countertops (Behr brand, I think; khaki/tan with a green tone); and pottery barn looking bedrooms for the kids and my husband and me. ~ Below are some better photos. You should be able to click on them now to enlarge them. https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/CZJqP94oax5I9afOlszJlA?feat=directlink https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/oR2_YYrhKhMhRbuRRCQ_9g?feat=directlink You can see the sage, beige and grayish tones. In the lower photo, you will see the a sample of the caesarstone jerusalem sand, the mini light green subway tile accent I was thinking about using (third one from the bottom) and the crisp white 3 x 6 subway tile sample (third from the bottom...originally, I was going to use barely beige). Do the clearer photos change your thoughts about our design which includes white cabinets and stainless steel appliances? Or, do you think I should go with the classic white look, maybe with all white subway tiles? I just want my kitchen to be beautiful, clean and crisp, yet with some warmth, and be worth the money spent. I've always dreamt of a white kitchen like this or even a more classic white cabinet kitchen (I'm sure you've all seen them or even have one like them): http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pCtYBqw7SEE/SSInWgWSbFI/AAAAAAAAAaA/RJjsK1XwD58/s1600-h/white+kitchen+old1.jpg If I decide to use white glazed subway tiles for the backsplash, what size of tiles should I use? Also, if going with the classic kitchen white theme, I've always liked the calcutta marble countertop look, but would prefer to use a granite or caesarstone. Have any ideas, or would something similar in color match with the floor tiles that I have? Any thoughts or ideas would appreciated! I need to figure all this out this week! With a busy schedule with 3 young kids and a hubby who wants the kitchen finished with the next couple of weeks, I'm pressed for time! Yikes! :) Hope you all had a great weekend!...See MoreNeed Help & Advice for Kitchen Cabinet Painting Issues
Comments (6)I've painted over 3,000 kitchen cabinets and I've never used lacquer. Some guys are married to that stuff and that's why they push it. YOU DO NOT NEED LACQUER. Lacquer is one of several hundred options. A quality 100% acrylic enamel or a hybrid like Advance, Cabinet Coat, etc. work well on kitchen cabinets when the substrate is properly prepared. Properly prepared is super, super clean with Dirtex or Jasco TSP substitute, sanded dull, primed and two coats of quality paint. The paint is probably soft due to excessive coats and improper drying times. Some questions for your painters. 1. What did they use to clean the cabinets? 2. What primer did they use? It should have been D&E specified primer. 3. What is bleeding through? A rough surface? The paint is slow to dry. If there is any dust movement in your house, the finish will be rough. Change the air filters and switch off the furnace during painting....See MoreNeed help and advice on high gloss kitchen cabinets
Comments (13)We are in DC also. We've done two kitchens in ikea and have been happy, though we have only been in said kitchens for 2 years (my husband was transferred out of state so we left the first house earlier than we expected). So I can't speak to long term quality, though there were no red flags of any issues. On your contractor's concerns, my first contractor was very familiar with ikea cabs (having done his own kitchen with them) and he was great with double and tripling up on securing it - like extra fastening to the wall, and extra nails holding on the back of the cabinets. But I kind of feel like once you put a solid countertop on, the whole thing just becomes an indestructible mass in any event? In any event, we browsed a bit at comparable white gloss places. Our kitchen is large enough that it was $8000 for ikea cabinets, so would have been like $75k for poggenpohl - which we were not interested in. We looked at friends' kitchens and went to several showrooms - places that would have cost up to, say, $35k. And were not convinced there was any quality difference at that price point. Sure, could we have gotten better quality cabinets? Yes. But only at an outrageous price point. In the case of my friends who have slightly more expensive cabinets from, say, home depot, they might have plywood boxes, but the plastic-y paint is peeling off certain places in their cabinets a year later. One place you could check if you're nervous about ikea is porcelanosa. They still have a location in Rockville I think. But we thought the quality looked on par with ikea and they wanted 6x the cost. Plus they have to design the kitchen for you (versus ikea where it's your design -a pro for me)....See MoreRequest for advice: finish on custom kitchen cabinets
Comments (7)I meant to respond to you specifically on the other thread but I got busy and it slipped my mind. Is this happening in other places or only on that specific area? In my opinion, you definitely have a finish problem. Obviously the finish is crosslinked great but it is not adhering to the cabinet very well as it is chipping off in every place where you expect to see when the crosslinking causes the finish to lift, which in turn reduces adhesion. A properly adhered finish shouldn't chip off like that. Water should not cause that much chipping especially on the non-horizontal surfaces. The chipping under your drawer and at the bottom is a sure sign of a larger problem. Having said that, you might have compounding problems and that makes things a bit tough. If the adhesion is only failing where there has been some moisture then the moisture may be the catalyst that reveals the adhesion problem. In that case, your cabinetmaker is unlikely to resolve the issue in your favor because they can simply say that the issue would not have occurred but for the moisture. While that is true, it ignores the fact that the issue shouldn't have happened even with that level of moisture. As for my advice... I would accept any resolution they are going to do for free, I would consider resolutions they offer at a significant discount, and would avoid any resolution that approaches retail payment because they are not likely to do it better the next time....See Moredeedles (zone 4b or 5 depending on whom
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