Help - we painted our gloss kitchen cabinets.

Kitchen completed for a lovely client in Glasgow who had taken an opportunity to paint over their black gloss kitchen cabinets, with unfortunate results. From the photos the client sent you cant really tell they had been painted and it wasnt until I arrived on site that I got the chance to see the cabinets close up. Painting kitchen cabinets is not like painting a wall and the many websites and youtube videos only scratch the surface when it comes to tackling a job few decorators would attempt.

After removing the doors and drawers which are done at my workshop, the first task was to remove all the paint from the doors. Quite simply this is a very messy process and has to be done with specialist materials. Once fully removed the doors must dry before sanding the remaining surface twice first with 120 grit then with 240 grit for smooth the surface. The final preparation stage is degreasing and washing all doors and drawers, this completes the basic preparation.

The most important stage in painting is the priming, if this stage fails then all other coats of paint will also fail. A specialist primer is used for maximum adhesion and allowed to fully dry before the second coat of primer is applied. I generally test the primers adhesion once the first coat has dried, this can involve a simple masking tape test, apply masking tape to the primed door, leave for 5 mins and then gently remove. If the masking tape comes of without any flacks of the primer being removed then you're good to proceed.

My client had chosen a very dramatic Lamp Black from The Little Greene paint company and the cabinets once primed received 4 coats of the main colour and sanded smooth between each coat. The final result was a newly hand painted wooden kitchen for 10-15% of the cost of new.

Traditional hand painted specialise in hand painted kitchens, transforming tired older kitchen to new and vibrant painted kitchen giving the cabinets a settled and intentional look, rather than the appearance of something that came from a box. It also allows us to re-invent traditional techniques for contemporary kitchens, and delight our clients.

Our clients words.

I'm very pleased with the work John has done on our kitchen units. They're totally transformed which wasn't an easy task considering our botched job on them and they now look fantastic. John went out of his way to work around our work from home schedule whilst keeping covid compliant. I couldn't recommend Traditional Hand Painted enough. Thanks again John.

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