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Wife wants the kitchen cabinets painted...
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MadPick
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Location: Renton, WA Joined: Sun Mar 13, 2011 Posts: 52064
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RocketScott wrote: I would pull the backstop off and do a tile back splash all the way around. RocketScott wrote: You also need some nice pendant lights over the island. RocketScott wrote: Some strip lights in those corner cabinets with the glass doors might be nice too. RocketScott wrote: Stainless, or even black appliances would look better At first I liked your post, but then I realized that now I have a whole bunch of old fillings that are suddenly going to "need" replacement.
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mmalleck
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Location: Bellevue area - WA Joined: Wed Jan 9, 2013 Posts: 1436
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Friends of mine - http://www.porcaropower.com/Tell them Mark and Kelly recommended them. I too think it's CRAZY to put paint on those nice cabinets.
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Wed Aug 09, 2017 9:57 pm |
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usrifle
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What Rocket scott said....Do not paint those beautiful cabinets.
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Wed Aug 09, 2017 11:48 pm |
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jukk0u
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RocketScott wrote: What he said, Actually what all of them said.
It will look like ass if you paint those. If not now, soon. It's not about my preference for wood either (insert gay joke here)(insert joke about inserting gay here)
If it were me:
I would pull the backstop off and do a tile back splash all the way around. Something to complement the counter top but be a focal point of it's own. Then put in under cabinet lights and shut those gawdawful can lights off. Of course your wife hates the cabinets, I hate your cabinets, they're being spotlighted like a felon in a lineup.
You also need some nice pendant lights over the island. Focus the light down on the counter top, where she needs to be looking... to make you a sammich, and not notice the cabinets she doesn't like.
Some strip lights in those corner cabinets with the glass doors might be nice too. Depends on how clean you want to keep those dishes.
Stainless, or even black appliances would look better but I would do the lighting mods first and see how it looks.
Once you do the under cabinet lights you'll for sure want to do the tile back splash, so you might as well do that first thing. do the lights THEN the tile backsplash as you may have to hide some hole sparky might make.
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Thu Aug 10, 2017 4:43 am |
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AR15L
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Hmmm... some people are known to have replaced painted cabinets with wood cabinets like yours. Oh, and they were happy to pay out big $$$. I know, doesn't sound right, does it?
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Thu Aug 10, 2017 4:52 am |
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Massivedesign
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Sounds like she wants a brighter kitchen? keep the cabinets as is, install new lighter counters new full height backsplash with under cabinet lights and SS appliances, maybe a nice white farm sink (Pinterest rage).
What's the "look" she is going for?
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Thu Aug 10, 2017 5:36 am |
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AR15L
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Massivedesign wrote: Sounds like she wants a brighter kitchen? keep the cabinets as is, install new lighter counters new full height backsplash with under cabinet lights and SS appliances, maybe a nice white farm sink (Pinterest rage).
What's the "look" she is going for? This is simple and useful.
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Thu Aug 10, 2017 5:50 am |
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L_O_G
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Cmon Baller, just buy a new house!
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Thu Aug 10, 2017 6:07 am |
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DGM33
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L_O_G wrote: Cmon Baller, just buy a new house! That's what I'm seriously trying to avoid! I love my house. Thanks for the off the input, guys. There's some good advice in this thread and I'll see what I can placate her with.
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Thu Aug 10, 2017 6:19 am |
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AR15L
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DGM33 wrote: L_O_G wrote: Cmon Baller, just buy a new house! That's what I'm seriously trying to avoid! I love my house. Thanks for the off the input, guys. There's some good advice in this thread and I'll see what I can placate her with. Start with a glass of wine, a big glass.
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Thu Aug 10, 2017 6:21 am |
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Sinus211
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AR15L wrote: DGM33 wrote: L_O_G wrote: Cmon Baller, just buy a new house! That's what I'm seriously trying to avoid! I love my house. Thanks for the off the input, guys. There's some good advice in this thread and I'll see what I can placate her with. Start with a glass of wine, a big glass. Now that's some good advice
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Thu Aug 10, 2017 6:23 am |
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RENCORP
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Fuck all that shit. Too complicated.
Get a cabinet making shop to come over, and make you new cabinet doors and drawers in whatever color she wants.
Leave the frames the way they are for contrast and a sane price on the refit.
Pull down and store all the stock originals so they can be reinstalled when she gets tired of the painted ones.
Every six years or so, just swap back and forth between the painted ones and the wood originals.
If you stay married for sixty years, you get 10 kitchen remodels for one price, once.
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Thu Aug 10, 2017 7:25 am |
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PMB
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sinus211 wrote: AR15L wrote: DGM33 wrote: L_O_G wrote: Cmon Baller, just buy a new house! That's what I'm seriously trying to avoid! I love my house. Thanks for the off the input, guys. There's some good advice in this thread and I'll see what I can placate her with. Start with a glass of wine, a big glass. Now that's some good advice I think so too. If the wine and solid advice already shared in this thread aren't effective, I recommend counseling. Those are beautiful cabinets, and painting them will turn that fine kitchen into a 1940s look. Nothing wrong with that, but... They painted those old cabinets because they were built from inferior wood.
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Thu Aug 10, 2017 7:54 am |
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OneManWolfpack
Location: Federal Wayish Joined: Sun Jan 27, 2013 Posts: 624
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You're going to want to use trisodium phosphate on those cabinets to remove any grease/gunk/stain after hours of scrubbing every nook and cranny, then prime them, and spray them at least 2 coats. Expect to pay big money if you hire it done. Typical kitchen will take 4-5 days.
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Thu Aug 10, 2017 4:55 pm |
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pdrake
Location: Seattle Joined: Thu Feb 7, 2013 Posts: 694
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Typical male responses.
Dude said his wife wanted painted cupboards. M'kay? And you give him advice on absolutely everything else short of carburetor repair.
René's advice was great. Other than that, the OP needs a PAINTER and not useless advice.
Sorry. Been married too long. I know how this system works.
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Thu Aug 10, 2017 5:34 pm |
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