painting unfinished cabinets
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Comments (3)What's on the floor now? Also, if you used alcohol based analine dye, you would have to spray it on. Otherwise, it dries so fast, you would get streaks and overlap. Your idea about unfinished bamboo is a good one. You can get free samples sent to you by flooring dealers on the web. If you want to know if you can do it yourself, a good investment would be a book on how to lay hardwood floors. You can get them at a home center or order one on the web. Waterbased analine dye, applied with a spray bottle then wiped with a rag would be your best bet. Dye before installing. Plywood would not make good flooring....See MorePainting unfinished coffee table
Comments (2)Glue and clamp the loose veneer on. I would use Elmer's wood glue. Is this the look you're going for ? If it is let me know and I'll tell you what I used. I used an red under my black but you can leave it out....See MoreHave you painted unfinished RTA cabinets?
Comments (8)We painted our new IKEA doors with BM Advance in Satin. Our lowers are yellow and for our uppers we used Marscapone, which I think is a nice creamy white. The doors we were painting were birch with a white-wash type of finish. We brought one of the doors to our local paint store and they recommended the BM Fresh Start Primer. (They did not recommend the Advance Primer. Since then, I've seen several reviews about how terrible that primer is.) We scuffed, primed, and did two coats of paint, sanding lightly between each coat. We brushed everything except the end cover panels. I rolled those. In retrospect, I wish we had done three coats and maybe even four on the cream uppers. The coverage with the lighter color doesn't seem as good. I think the two biggest downsides to BM Advance are the long dry time (16 hours between coats) and the long cure time. They say up to 30 days but ours was more like 60-90. The upside is that, once they cure, they are really durable. We're coming up on two years since we painted them and have not babied them. I've been known to take a scrubby sponge to them when removing difficult splatters and the finish is still fine. The other problem, which you may not have, was the learning curve. I'd never used self leveling paint before. It took me a while to stop poking at it and let the paint do its job. Also it is super drippy so three thinner coats would have been smarter....See MorePainting unfinished wood window trim?
Comments (2)i Typically would like it to be stained. It may depend if the trim is a different species of wood and how difficult it would be to remove the splatter. I am not fond of Kilz latex primers. It may be easier to replace the trim molding and pre stain, pre paint It or even use a vinyl trim. If in doubt do a mock up on one or two, nothing like the real thing for Comparisons....See MoreRelated Professionals
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