Cabinetry refinishing takes a lot of patience and skill.
On this project, we refinished a built-in dresser, kitchen cabinets and a built-in bookcase. We first started with making a containment so all of our dust and fumes from spraying and sanding didn't travel throughout the rest of the house. I have useful tools that make setting up containments easy and fast. One of the tools is called E-Z UP Pole that allows you to set plastic on the top of the polls and extends up to the ceiling creating a plastic tent. After the containment is set up, I then set up ventilation by placing a fan and air duct with a filter. This helps the paint dry more evenly and regulate dust and overspray floating around. Next came the actual prep. Taking off the doors, filling in wood grain with 1 part water and 1 part wood filler. Another useful tool I have for kitchen cabinet jobs is a cabinet door drying rack. The drying rack I have is called Erecta-Rack. Using a drying rack for cabinet doors is extremely helpful by freeing up space for your doors to dry after they have been painted. After the wood filler has dried you can then sand down the cabinets. We then sprayed our primer for adhesion and also so the wood grain does not bleed through. The Primer we used is shellac, shellac is a excellent primer for wood cabinets. After the primer is dry we then did a light sand for our finishing coat. Paint Product and color for the finish paint is Pro-Industrial Hazel from Sherwin-Williams.
