Home Decoration

To give a revitalizing look to your kitchen, you can refinish your existing kitchen cabinet. Refinishing kitchen cabinets is the best solution, when there is a scarcity of funds and time. It provides a dual advantage, on one hand, it serves as the most cost effective option; on the other hand, it lends your kitchen a more vivacious look. However, refinishing is advisable only in those cases, where there is a surety that your cabinet will last for another 5 to 10 years. Read on to check out a few kitchen cabinet refinishing ideas.

How to Refinish the Kitchen Cabinet

• Before initiating the process of refinishing, it is essential to ensure that the floors of your cabinet are completely dry and free from dust. Incase, you find that the, floors are rotten; there arises a need to replace them. Have a look at the shelves also and if they are also affected, then change them.
• Before refinishing, thoroughly clean the cabinet, especially the handles and its exteriors. Wipe off all the dust particles using sandpaper.
• Dismantle the door and the hardware and thereafter, smear them with paint or varnish. While painting the exteriors, apply from bottom to top. The second layer of varnish shall be applied later.
• Apply paint on the edges, the face frames and the interiors of the cabinet. Allow the cabinet to be completely air dry.