Help Gaining Confidence Painting Ombré
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Need help with scrubbable paint for kitchen cabinets
Comments (27)Yes Tuesday, I think the problem is the Duration. However I have never used it on cabinets. It's true Kilz isn't the best primer around though it is good for stain killing. I just know that paint sellers will use whatever excuse they can to weasel out of liability so they ask questions looking for anything to blame besides their product. The problem with painting oil based over latex is that you are putting a brittle paint over a flexible one. This isn't a huge deal of course, but for me it's enough to choose another acrylic option. It may be true that oil based paints are more durable, but this does not mean that we should all paint our cabinets with oil based paints. Oil based paints have other drawbacks. Don't forget this. I have been painting for almost 30 years and I have seen what oil based paints look like after 10 years and I have seen what acrylic paints look like after 10 years. Oil based paints overall look like crap in the long term. So what if you gain a small amount of durability? You still have a yellowed out finish with cracks at all the joints because the oil based paint just falls off where ever there is movement below the paint film. When it comes to painting cabinets doors in particular, ones with joints, this is a factor and will be even more of a factor when you are painting oil over latex. Don't take this one example of someone using an acrylic paint on their cabinets and having problems as the precedent. This is not normal. Other premium acrylic finishes clean very well. I would go buy a quart of Aura or even some Pro Classic or Cabinet Coat and try to paint one cabinet door and see how that holds up in a couple weeks before switching the entire project to oil based paint. Maybe at the end of the day since this is a short term solution anyway you may just end up painting the faces of all the doors with some other product because the Duration just isn't that good. It will be interesting to see how everything plays out....See MoreIn what ways has this forum helped you with your decorating?
Comments (42)Val Interesting ? - I didn't read any responses yet I found this forum late 2005 after we had a flood in our home. First finding the kitchen forum. I had so much work to do in a very short period of time. Basically an unplanned entire home renovation. The biggest being a kitchen gut & master bath gut. I could not have come to a more welcoming place. I was a maniac poster at times (might cringe if I were able to find my posts) - I had to move us out of this home, find a rental, movers to move contents out, rid of junk/flood ruined things, deal w/the insurance co., GC's, kitchen design, lead abatement, etc,etc, etc & 2 parents who were quite ill. I owe so much of how my home turned out to the talented people on GW - they helped with paint choices in each & every room, wallpaper, cabinet hardware, furnishing choices, rug choices, placement of furnishings, wood stain - You name it there was not a query that went unanswered. I felt overwhelmed to say the least. But GWers were always up to the task. I learned about hanging pics/mirrors which are typically to high, grouping artwork (still working on that one). Types of fabric/paints/carpets - Mind you I was much more concerned with the plumbing runs going through the joists in the LR and how that would be corrected. I think mostly I learned that I had capabilities and to trust myself & my own judgement. Along the way I gained much decorating confidence and became more engaged. I think previously my decorating sense was there, certainly not as educated or engaged. With confidence (much of it gained here) - I ventured out and started to do things I was interested in but afraid to really try - purchased a sewing machine & started some projects. I got an angle grinder & skill saw one Christmas & did my first tile project. I got so many ideas from looking through the eyes/homes of the GW group - still do. Where else can you go and get people(total strangers) willing to give their time and advice to help you? with anything? GW IS THE BEST - that's why I'm still here. Maybe we could have class of xyz reunions!...See MoreHELP!...I am devastated!
Comments (91)pence~~I do think you are on to something...it is more important that he still has a good relationship with his son and his children (DH's only grandchildren) than money at his age. He has made the statement that he has been very poor and very wealthy, but his life has been a "good ride"...he has been blessed in so many ways...as well as blessed to have had two (one is me) wonderful wives~~ The reason this has gone on for years...DH was the architect and primary owner in the construction business, which son ran into the ditch..not paying the bills, not doing acceptable work (and didn't pay the errors & omissions insurance nor the workman's comp)...so those errors and injuries had to be paid out of good old dad's pocket! For all of the years we have been married, there has never been a construction job that son has done that hasn't ended up in a conflict or lawsuit of some type...so that has been our life. I am hoping the one that is looming will be the last because the business is closed and they are doing no more work. Lousianapurchase~~ Wonderful words and thoughts...and I loved the last quote "What goes around, comes around"...and I am hoping this comes true in son's case! Lascatx~~your words and thoughts are priceless....and I do live in KS. Lavender~~THANKS for your kind words...they are appreciated DH does have an attorney (heaven only knows how large that bill might be through all of this mess). I have consulted an attorney several times and feel confident with his advice. We started to counseling and our counselor died suddenly....didn't seem to do much good and he was convienced it was a waste of time and money....I also went alone...and maybe I'll find another one. Thanks for your support....right now, I think I will ride out the next lawsuit....hope for a quick house sale...and hope that we can get out lives back together when we can get of this town away from his son.... He now says he doesn't want me to leave...he loves me....and I love him too, but lots of times, I don't like him very well....See MoreHelp with this weed
Comments (14)Lily, with all due respect to tropicbreezent-he or she knows his or her stuff, lol-I wouldn't stress over that factoid (high temp) too much. Now I'm a long way from Bali but let me tell you a bit about my experience with such herbicides: I've used them since the late 1970s. Take glyphosate...by now I must have sprayed out perhaps several thousand gallons of that stuff. In terms of weather factors interrupting success, that has happened exactly one time. We had a summer of rain, the weeds were of course growing like mad, and as my job at that time required me to maintain many acres of landscaping, I was spraying whenever and wherever I could. At one site, I had just finished up-literally the material was still wet on the foliage-when a downpour came. It was simply washed off. In every other case, the material has worked as it should. It's cool that you are taking a detailed approach to applying pesticides. I wish more people would. But don't overthink this one. If you can read, which evidently you indeed can, lol, you can read the label and dilute properly for over-the-top, foliar spraying. It will work. Now just to clear up one last bit of confusion-are you going to use the paintbrush approach because of neighboring landscape plants that you don't want to accidentally hit with the spray? If so, fine, but otherwise just spraying the stuff will work and is usually much much faster. That painting on deal is for when you're using it to kill woody plants, where you cut the stem and then immediately paint the material (at a different, stronger dilution rate) onto the cut surface. Capiche?...See Morelynartist
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