Painting your metal kitchen cabinets for $50 — Kay points us to Rick Wrench’s solution
Mid Mod Pam on Dec 08 2007 at 3:13 pm | Filed under: Reader homes, steel kitchen cabinets
Palm Springs Stephan told us how to repaint our vintage steel kitchen cabinets via the powder coating method at the local industrial place. A beautiful finish - but yes, will cost some money.
As an alternative, Kay points us to the highly labor-intensive — but very inexpensive — method that has stormed through the car reno community — like, via hundreds of pages on a forum thread! People think we retro renovators are obsessed? We have nothing on the car guys.
The method involves Interlux Brightsides marine top paint thinned with mineral spirits, sponge rollers, 7 coats including wet sanding — all leading to an equally beautiful and durable finish, at least in our retro Corvair owner’s experience. See his complete instructions here.
As Kay points out: “And the results are impressive…My cabinets are so sad. Someone painted them with house paint. I am currently trying to remove the old paint, I cannot keep it clean. And then I found a method of painting cars using paint available in a can. I am going to experiment with that…on my cabinets. They can’t be any worse then they already are. At least that is my reasoning.”
Thank you, Kay. And let us know how it works out with your vintage Yorktown steel kitchen cabinets.
BTW, nice wheels, Rick. My first car, circa 1976, was a Corvair - it had some kind of souped up engine, a real beast and great fun.
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