Refacing Oak Cabinets To White

Today i m going to share my updated tutorial for how to paint oak cabinets and hide the grain.

Refacing oak cabinets to white.

Originally published on february 16 2014. Those avocado green cabinets so popular in the 70s can be transformed into the contemporary sleek white of the 21st century. My walls are a pretty green by ace hardware called olive oil. At the beginning of both projects a service provider will safely remove all cabinet fronts doors and hardware leaving only the frame on the walls.

How to reface your cabinets with new doors. We successfully completed this project and painted our oak cabinets white over five years ago to achieve a smooth finish. The process of refinishing golden oak cabinets is the same process used for any wood cabinet. Getting to this point has required hours and hours of painful brainpower over three years during which time i ve asked more people than i have fingers and toes their opinion on oak painted oak stained oak orange cabinets gray cabinets white cabinets dirty cabinets and beveled cabinets.

When removing the. Refacing kitchen cabinets and resurfacing them pretty well mean the same thing. To save a lot of money you can simply replace your cabinet doors with solid wood doors and completely upgrade the entire look of your kitchen. Be sure to label each door as you remove it so you will know exactly where it goes.

Refacing resurfacing cabinets. Within days your kitchen can take on the look of a complete renovation without the hassle cost mess and inconvenience of a full. Remove the cabinet doors and drawers including all the hardware such as hinges. Last updated may 14 2020.

It s definitely time to do something about my early 90s white washed oak cabinets that are getting more and more pink with age. Doors hardware and drawer fronts often drawer boxes as well will be replaced. If you are reusing your hinges be sure to label them as well. Before you can really get started at all you have to remove all of the cabinet doors and drawers.

Those light bright oak cabinets can become the regal dark of cherry wood and vice versa. I simply labeled a small baggie and stuck. Painting oak cabinets white step one. We updated our countertops a few years ago with a beautiful granite called giallo napoleon and that helped for a while.

Kitchen remodels are expensive especially if you choose to gut and replace the cabinets.