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dayflower
Gonzales, LA
(Zone 9a)
February 04, 2008
10:10 PM Post #4496629
| Well, I have been busy for the past 3 days. My kitchen cabinets were white and 12 yrs old so we remodeled with new granite counter tops so I got the bright idea that I would like to antique the cabinets so I go to Home Depot and purchase a gal of Ralph Lauren Faux Techinque Glazes Teastaned (AG02). They have turned out really pretty but let me tell you unless you have the stamina to keep with the job don't start it, do a small chest to learn on first...you need to use long strokes and you need to do one board of your cabinets at a time. The stuff drys fast, you have to put it on, then brush it off and wipe your excess off your brush as you go to get the right effect. I learned there is an art to it after doing the cabinet base before I did my doors. By the time I got to my doors I had it down pat so it all came out looking good, because they are what your eye catches first when you look at the cabinets. They really look like some old cabinets out of an old farm house (if thats what you want)...but they are pretty...my son thinks I'm crazy. Now that I'm finished with the staining process, tomorrow I plan to top coat with a clear simigloss polycrylic for a protective finish. All this is water based, so easy clean up. 
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ecrane3
Dublin, CA
(Zone 9a)
February 04, 2008
10:23 PM Post #4496693
| That looks really nice--that was exactly the look I wanted to get when I did my kitchen cabinets, but I used a different technique and it didn't come out quite as nice (I did a cream basecoat, then used a brush to apply mocha colored glaze, then wiped off some of the excess) |
retiredteach
Joplin, MO
February 05, 2008
09:38 AM Post #4497801
| looks really nice. sit back drink a cup of coffee and enjoy |
bivbiv
Central FL, FL
(Zone 9b)
February 10, 2008
01:52 PM Post #4519904
| The picture looks really good, so they must look even better in person. Good job.
I often use oil-based wood stain instead of a glaze. On vertical surfaces the gel stain works best because it doesn't drip. The wood stain works very nicely on crackle finishes, too. Tinted paste wax is another method, as well as shoe polish. (I've used the former but not the latter.) However, I intend to try shoe polish on something soon just to see what kind of effect I can get. |
pepper23
KC Metro area, MO
(Zone 5b)
February 16, 2008
10:20 PM Post #4548568
| The cabinets look great!! |
aschiot
Centereach, NY
March 02, 2008
10:38 AM Post #4612132
| Hi,
Your cabinets look great. I have a painted white mdf cabinets and would love to do the same to mine. What kind of material are yours? |
Elena
Nashville, TN
(Zone 6b)
March 02, 2008
10:45 AM Post #4612151
| Those are beautiful. You did a great job. Wish you would come do mine for me. Hey, how are those day lilies doing these days? Are you going to have your gardens on display this year? |
dayflower
Gonzales, LA
(Zone 9a)
March 08, 2008
10:25 AM Post #4637433
| Hey Elena...good to hear from you...would you believe I've gotten rid of most of my daylilies...still have maybe 50 or so, rust has just about run me out of business...too much work, spraying, etc. getting too old also, found annuals and prennials are easier to care for so I sold off most daylilies and last yr the beds got pretty much filled with a few azaleas and the rest prennials, and had bloom all season, beautiful...Thanks on the cabinets, don't know what kind of wood the cabinets are, just basic paintable wood that they install when building the house new, 12 yrs ago. |
Elena
Nashville, TN
(Zone 6b)
March 08, 2008
12:01 PM Post #4637827
| Howdy my friend,
WOW! I am stunned... after seeing all of your day lily beds and knowing that you have had your gardens on show for so long. I know about plants being too much trouble to continue growing, however. After the struggle we had last year just to keep things watered, we are rethinking our gardens too. I am continuing with plants that don't need a lot of water but will eventually have to give up on most of the ones that need too much petting. We spent hours every day watering last summer and that is just too hard to continue doing at our age. Day lilies and iris plants are easy to care for in our area so they will get to stay. Azaleas are hard to care for now so we have already let two or three die and may let the rest go also this summer if things are bad. The perennials get to stay if they don't need petting. |
Redbirdie
Helena, MT
November 26, 2008
05:49 PM Post #5833843
| I am loving your cabinets! I bought a house with a VERY WHITE kitchen and it is a log-style house. Very disconnected-looking. So I am embarking on some decorating and wanted to change the cabinets. The cabinets look like they are melamine and I think it is called a thermafoil rather than a wood type cabinet. The paint guy at Home Depot tells me to wipe the cabinets down with TSP and prime with Glidden Gripper. I want your look! Do y'all think I can achieve that? |
dayflower
Gonzales, LA
(Zone 9a)
November 26, 2008
08:18 PM Post #5834245
| Hi Red, What I used came from Home Depot, it was Ralph Lauren Faux Technique Glaze, Tinting Base, RL 2420 , Interior Faux Technique Glaze. After cleaning the existing cabinets with mineral spirits II just painted it on and then wiped off the excess with the brush untill it was the tint that I wanted. (Either take off the doors) or work around them, but do the cabinet frames first, that way by the time you finish that you'll have the hang of it and by the that time your doors will turn out the best which they will be the most noticable anyway...so you want them to be the best...brush stroke in the dirrection lf the grain of the wood, doing one section at a time. Don't try to get too far ahead of yourself because it drys real fast...when you finish, put on 2 good coats of a clear polyurathane or it will wipe or scratch off easily. Hope this helps...its a "job" but hang in there and "get er done"... |
mamaofmany
Shawnee Mission, KS
January 19, 2009
12:03 AM Post #6022460
| Hi Dayflower,
I love, love, love your cabinets...I want to do the same to my cabinets. I have white wood cabinets...similar to yours. In your first post it says you used Ralph Lauren Faux Technique Glaze Tea Stained (AG02). In your last post it says you used Ralph Lauren Faux Technique Glaze, Tinting Base, RL 2420. Can you clarify which glaze you used? Did you use a paint brush or a sponge brush?
Thanks!
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dayflower
Gonzales, LA
(Zone 9a)
January 19, 2009
11:00 AM Post #6023496
| OK, info straight from the can (thank goodness I still have the can) Ralph Lauren, Faux Technique Glaze tinting Base 2420, interior faux technique glaze. I used a brush, just brush it on and then brush it off to the point that you want it to be. Do one section at a time, with the wood grain. I did the cabinet base first and then the doors...by the time you finish the base you have the hang of it and are better with it and that way you do a better job on your doors. (you really wipe most of it off so that it just looks slightly dirty, but is in the cracks) hope this helps...read all the past entres |
mamaofmany
Shawnee Mission, KS
January 20, 2009
09:46 PM Post #6030196
| Thank you so much! I can't wait to get started...I just love your cabinets! |
dayflower
Gonzales, LA
(Zone 9a)
January 21, 2009
05:54 PM Post #6033314
| Hey Mam, Oh, don't forget when you finish and after the glaze treatment drys overnight, to put 2 coats of a good cear polyurathane so you will be able to wipe the cabinets afterwards when you get them dirty or spill something on them. |
mamaofmany
Shawnee Mission, KS
January 21, 2009
11:28 PM Post #6034561
| To dayflower...did you remove your cabinets to glaze them?
Thanks! |
dayflower
Gonzales, LA
(Zone 9a)
January 22, 2009
10:10 AM Post #6035669
| Goodness No, I didn't even take the doors off, but it would have been easier to have taken the doors off. I did take the drawers out and removed all the old pulls everywhere and afterwards I put on new clear antique glass pulls to go along with the old look. Also I put on the matching glass handle pulls on my large drawers that I have my pots and tops in. |
ecrane3
Dublin, CA
(Zone 9a)
January 22, 2009
10:56 AM Post #6035903
| I would definitely recommend removing the doors--it'll save you from gunking up your hinges with paint and make it easier to paint all areas of the cabinets and frames (if you leave the doors on, there are some areas of the frame that may be hard to get to). And it makes the doors a lot easier to paint if you set them down flat rather than trying to paint them while they're vertical. |
mamaofmany
Shawnee Mission, KS
January 24, 2009
02:44 AM Post #6043816
| Thank you both for the information...sorry...I have one more question...I live in an older home...the cabinets are wood, there are nice, painted white. The problem is, the cabinet hinges had to be special ordered for the cabinets when I moved in ten years ago...they only came in gold...I checked with the store...now they are not even manufactued. Can I paint my hinges bronze or black or glaze them with the same glaze I am using for the cabinets...they are just so shiny. I want to make them dull...less shiny...
Thank you so much! |
dayflower
Gonzales, LA
(Zone 9a)
January 24, 2009
12:13 PM Post #6044767
| you may be able to oxidize them, to make them look old. ck with someone at Home Depot, etc...just a thought.. |
ecrane3
Dublin, CA
(Zone 9a)
January 24, 2009
01:12 PM Post #6045068
| The glaze you're using for the cabinets isn't meant for metal so it would chip/peel off very easily. If you want to recolor your hinges then you need to get something that's made for use on metal. I would go with dayflower's suggestion and see if there's something you can buy to oxidize them, that's probably your best bet but if they're that shiny shiny gold color I suspect there's a coating on there that would prevent oxidation and I'm not sure what you'd have to do to get rid of the coating. There are paints you can buy for metals too but I'd worry that painting them would gum up the hinges a bit and make it harder to open and close the cabinets. Or if you don't mind a little extra work you could always buy new hinges--since they won't be the exact same as the ones you have now the holes in the doors and frames might not be in the right place so you'd have to redo those--a bit time consuming but that way you can get the exact look that you want. |
mamaofmany
Shawnee Mission, KS
January 24, 2009
03:17 PM Post #6045645
| Thank you...I will look into the oxidation...I don't think the hinge can be replaced...it is an odd hinge this builder used and it is no longer manufactured...it looks like a regular hinge...but the way it fits is strange. We have had many carpenters, etc. try to do something about the hinge...we are stuck with it unless we want to replace the cabinets...if we did that we would have to tear out our granite backsplash...
Thank you...you both were extremely helpful!!! |
dayflower
Gonzales, LA
(Zone 9a)
January 24, 2009
03:30 PM Post #6045691
| It they have a protective coating...you may have to put something on them to desolve the protective coating to get down to the metal before they can be oxidized. Take one off and take it to HD / Lowes or local Hardware/Paint store for advice. |
mamaofmany
Shawnee Mission, KS
January 24, 2009
04:11 PM Post #6045803
| Thank you...you all are so great...I did find info on oxidizing. This is my plan...I am going to do one cabinet door from my laundry room for practice and see how it looks with the gold hardware...the hardware is not unattractive...it is just gold. I am thinking with the cabinets being glazed...the hardware may not look so gold...or I am hoping. :)
Carol
I attached pics...if you have time...let me know your thoughts...
(The cabinets have been distressed.)
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mamaofmany
Shawnee Mission, KS
January 24, 2009
04:14 PM Post #6045808
| This is what I have over my stove area...
Carol
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dayflower
Gonzales, LA
(Zone 9a)
January 25, 2009
09:57 AM Post #6048320
| You won't have to sand or distress the cabinets at all, the glaze will cling from your brush off tenique to look just like that, it'll cling to the edges of the cabinets and in the cracks and groves of the doors to give it that distressed (or dirty cabinet) look...you won't be able to even tell when they have dust on the tops (great, yes) ...also I think when you finish they'll really bring out or blend in with the yellow (gold) inside that you have where your dishes sit and be real pretty. To me the old gold look of you hardware looks OK. How about showing us those mysterious hinges you are having such a problem with. |
ecrane3
Dublin, CA
(Zone 9a)
January 25, 2009
12:10 PM Post #6048902
| I'm still curious about the hinges too--it looks like you have regular looking cabinet doors and regular looking cabinet frames, so I don't understand why you can't buy new hinges and put them on if you wanted to. I can believe that the current hinges might attach weird and you might not be able to get other ones that fit exactly the same way, but I don't see why you couldn't put normal hinges on it if you don't mind the effort of drilling new holes in the door & frame to attach them. |
mamaofmany
Shawnee Mission, KS
January 25, 2009
11:42 PM Post #6051620
| Thanks again...here are the hinges...I don't know why I cant get new hinges...I went to a place in KC that specializes in customized hardware...I took my hinge...they said that style/shape was no longer manufactured. Of course, I did not believe them, so I purchased about five hinges that looked EXACTLY like my hinge...no matter how I did it...it would not fit...the cabinet door would not close. I even had my carpenter come over. I purchased the gold hinges 10 years ago...I had to special order and gold was the only available color. How can that be...my house is 35+ year old...original cabinets. 
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mamaofmany
Shawnee Mission, KS
January 25, 2009
11:45 PM Post #6051626
| Another pic of hinge...
Carol
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ecrane3
Dublin, CA
(Zone 9a)
January 26, 2009
01:19 AM Post #6051896
| Can you show a pic of how the hinge attaches to the inside of the cabinet door?
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gavafriend
Los Lunas, NM
July 27, 2009
03:09 PM Post #6871927
| We removed 5 layers of paint and varnish from cabinets in west Texas. My DH removed all the doors and I worked on them outside. The hinges had been replaced several times. So I just had to refil the old holes and hang the doors back up again. We left the stiles and frames painted white. Of course it's now very fashionable to have two different wood tones in the kitchen.
I think you may just have some special hinges that are screwed to the frame on the inside of the cabinet. But there are lots of styles of hinges that can cover the old holes on the doors and you will make new holes for them on the outside of the frames. Then just fill the old holes on the inside of the cabinet. Forget about getting hinges just like your old ones. Find some new style that you love and make new holes. We have a new home and we had to drill the holes for knobs and handles. Just be sure to make and use a template for lining up stuff. |
