Painted Kitchen Cupboards... a great quick fix!

Painted kitchen cupboards, are a great quick fix.. and one of the most affordable.

It can be absolutely amazing the difference a fresh coat of paint can make on cupboards. The most important part of this exercise is to allow yourself some time, you don't want to be stressed out and trying to get this done in an hour, or it will look like painted kitchen cupboards!

You need to empty all your cupboards, unless you don't mind a painted box of cornflakes!.. it just makes things a bit easier, if you are just painting the door fronts then it doesn't really matter, as you will need to take them off their hinges anyways, but sometimes those shelves need a little sprucing up. Below I have found this great book full of ideas for painted kitchen cupboards... The most important part is to make sure you have everything squeaky clean with a degreaser, or nothing will stick.. take your time, do it right, and you will be proud of your painted kitchen cupboards!

The Painted Kitchen Over 60 Quick and Easy Ways to Transform Your Kitchen Cupboards (Paperback (Trade Paper))

The Painted Kitchen Over 60 Quick and Easy Ways to Transform Your Kitchen Cupboards This book shows how that, with some paint basic tools, anyone can transform a drab, dated kitchen to the most welcoming room in the house. An excellent how-to reference that provides the means to transform an old outdated kitchen through the use of paint. This is a complete guide that includes everything from color advice, to working with damaged, cheap surfaces, to exotic finishes. In The Painted Kitchen, Henny Donovan demonstrates how with some paint and basic tools anyone can transform a drab, dated kitchen to the most welcoming room in the house. Add new doorknobs, maybe some gold leaf or colored wax for embellishment, and the heart of the home is once again stylish and a pleasure to use. Organized by color -- naturals and off-whites, yellows, reds, blues, greens, black and gray -- and complete with comprehensive step-by-step instructions and photographs, The Painted Kitchen offers the principles of color, choosing color, and working with man-made finishes. Full of inspiration and eminently practical, this book shows how to prepare old or damaged natural and manmade surfaces for painting work with laminates, raw and painted wood, melamine, and fiberboard choose colors that work with the rooms lighting co-ordinating colors to create ambience choose the right faux finish for your cupboards create the most popular faux effects colorwashing, distressing, glazing, dragging, combing, stippling, sponging, rag-rolling, spattering, craquelure, crackle glazing, relief stenciling, textured combing, stamping, and decoupage use luxurious embellishments gold leaf, colored waxes, metallic paints, molding and polishing work with exciting products venetian plaster, texture paints, liming wax, graphite varnish. mix universal tints More than 16 innovative projects, each with four variations, offer choices for everyone, including blue-and-white Portuguese-style folk art vinegar-glaze fingerprinting birch wood graining with faux ebony and ivory inlay terra cotta polished plaster with copper squares liming over a marquetry-style woodwash vine-leaf stipple, gingham checks, duck-egg speckle distressed paintwork and hand-painted script. An extensive list of North American sources rounds out this excellent how-to reference. Organized by colors and complete with comprehensive step-by-step instructions and photos, this guide offers principles of color, choosing color, and working with man-made finishes. More than 16 innovative projects, each with four variations, included.

Painted kitchen cupboards are the quickest way to spruce up your kitchen... have fun, and take your time, remember you are saving a ton of money by doing this yourself, so allow the time to do it right.