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ginny
01-04-05, 08:28 PM
Let me state first off that I am totally unknowledgable about woodworking. That being said, I have decided that my 1950's kitchen cabinets needs a different look. Currently, they are painted a light blue. I have in mind that I would like to give them a sort of antique/weathered look.
A woman I know has a table with the look I want which she acheived, she says, by first painting the table with white paint and then putting stain on it with a rag. Asked if it was oil base or latex paint, she doesn't remember. She is elderly and doesn't remember details, but she said she is sure she put some kind of stain over the white paint with a rag.
Is this something that would work? The cabinets are currently painted with latex paint. If this can be done, can anyone tell me what I have to do? What kind of paint? What kind of stain? Please Help! Thanks. Ginny
A woman I know has a table with the look I want which she acheived, she says, by first painting the table with white paint and then putting stain on it with a rag. Asked if it was oil base or latex paint, she doesn't remember. She is elderly and doesn't remember details, but she said she is sure she put some kind of stain over the white paint with a rag.
Is this something that would work? The cabinets are currently painted with latex paint. If this can be done, can anyone tell me what I have to do? What kind of paint? What kind of stain? Please Help! Thanks. Ginny
Sawdustguy
01-04-05, 08:38 PM
Ginny,
I would like to welcome you to the forums and invite you to join two other ladies that are looking to do what you're asking about. I have started a thread about it in "Kitchens" Please go to this link, read the postings and view the pics. If you can, please post a pic of the actual table, if possible and I'll see what I can to do help you achieve it.
Please ask whatever questions you'd like.
http://forum.doityourself.com/showthread.php?t=194144
I welcome you to join the discussion.
I would like to welcome you to the forums and invite you to join two other ladies that are looking to do what you're asking about. I have started a thread about it in "Kitchens" Please go to this link, read the postings and view the pics. If you can, please post a pic of the actual table, if possible and I'll see what I can to do help you achieve it.
Please ask whatever questions you'd like.
http://forum.doityourself.com/showthread.php?t=194144
I welcome you to join the discussion.
ginny
01-06-05, 10:43 PM
Hi, Mike, thanks for getting back to me so quickly! I went to the other thread and read everything and looked at the pictures. Number 7, the one with 2 different looks, is of particular interest to me ( the blue side).
I told you that I am totally unknowledgable about this stuff. Now that I see that picture I am forced :) to prove it by confessing a major blunder I already made with the cabinets. :( That blue one is the kind of look I had in my head from the beginning.
It seemed to me, a simple thing. Since I already knew the cabinets had two coats of blue paint, one by the previous owner, one by me, I figured I would just sand the doors off haphazadly (with the grain) to give them 3 tones, dark blue, light blue and wood. I found out on about the 5th door ( there are 18 doors and 8 drawers!) that SOME of the doors also had a coat of white oil base paint! More, harder, sanding! I spent a whole afternoon doing them and as I finished each one, they looked GREAT! Standing alone, each door was just as I pictured it.
I did, thank goodness, have sense enough to put them back up to make sure I liked them before I put the glaze on them.
By the time I had the 3rd door back on, I knew I had a disaster on my hands. I put the rest on, anyway, just to see how bad it was and then I stood there dumbstruck at the horror of them. My husband was very diplomatic. Upon seeing them, he said, "hmmmm, that's..... interesting."
Side by side, they look like I gave a couple two year olds paintbrushes and told them to have at it!
So, when I wrote the first message, I figured to repaint them blue all over today and start again with the woman's method, if you thought it was possible.
But, I gotta tell ya', today another idea struck me and I took a little bit of walnut stain I found in the basement and, with a rag, lightly brushed it on a small section of one door then a few minutes later, whiped it off with another rag. The walnut is too dark, but I do like the effect it gave. The spot I did has almost a barnwood look. ( which I'll remember if I ever want a barnwood effect on anything --- IF I ever tackle another project that involves sanding!) But, there is still too much "busyness" to do anything with them as they are now.
So... correct me if I am wrong in this.... I THINK what I need to do is strip the doors completely down to the wood, which, by the way, I think might be plywood, for petes sake. Then I need to paint them a darker blue, then a light blue and then sand them just enough to rough them up and let some of the dark blue show through with just a touch of wood showing around the handles and edges. Then I need to apply a stain that is lighter than walnut. I'm thinking maybe honey oak, since the door and window frames are honey oak.
Does that make sense? How did you do the blue side in the picture? Sorry for rambling on.... And thanks for any imput! Ginny
I told you that I am totally unknowledgable about this stuff. Now that I see that picture I am forced :) to prove it by confessing a major blunder I already made with the cabinets. :( That blue one is the kind of look I had in my head from the beginning.
It seemed to me, a simple thing. Since I already knew the cabinets had two coats of blue paint, one by the previous owner, one by me, I figured I would just sand the doors off haphazadly (with the grain) to give them 3 tones, dark blue, light blue and wood. I found out on about the 5th door ( there are 18 doors and 8 drawers!) that SOME of the doors also had a coat of white oil base paint! More, harder, sanding! I spent a whole afternoon doing them and as I finished each one, they looked GREAT! Standing alone, each door was just as I pictured it.
I did, thank goodness, have sense enough to put them back up to make sure I liked them before I put the glaze on them.
By the time I had the 3rd door back on, I knew I had a disaster on my hands. I put the rest on, anyway, just to see how bad it was and then I stood there dumbstruck at the horror of them. My husband was very diplomatic. Upon seeing them, he said, "hmmmm, that's..... interesting."
Side by side, they look like I gave a couple two year olds paintbrushes and told them to have at it!
So, when I wrote the first message, I figured to repaint them blue all over today and start again with the woman's method, if you thought it was possible.
But, I gotta tell ya', today another idea struck me and I took a little bit of walnut stain I found in the basement and, with a rag, lightly brushed it on a small section of one door then a few minutes later, whiped it off with another rag. The walnut is too dark, but I do like the effect it gave. The spot I did has almost a barnwood look. ( which I'll remember if I ever want a barnwood effect on anything --- IF I ever tackle another project that involves sanding!) But, there is still too much "busyness" to do anything with them as they are now.
So... correct me if I am wrong in this.... I THINK what I need to do is strip the doors completely down to the wood, which, by the way, I think might be plywood, for petes sake. Then I need to paint them a darker blue, then a light blue and then sand them just enough to rough them up and let some of the dark blue show through with just a touch of wood showing around the handles and edges. Then I need to apply a stain that is lighter than walnut. I'm thinking maybe honey oak, since the door and window frames are honey oak.
Does that make sense? How did you do the blue side in the picture? Sorry for rambling on.... And thanks for any imput! Ginny