Intro - Under Contract (PIP)

[pitterwoo]

congrats! I like your ceilings a lot.

[thewop]

Welcome!

[house]

Welcome! Cute house! Will you be painting first or changing the cabinets first? I think if you do cabinets first the current wall color will look pretty good and might not need to paint the kitchen. Unless of course you really want to.

[simpsongal]

Welcome! The rooms looks pretty spacious, I like the pitched ceilings. Congrats!

Did you want to paint the cabinets brown or restain them (I'm guessing the former b/c you mentioned the transformation kit)? If the wood is in good condition, consider restaining them, rather than painting.

[simpsongal]

I don't think staining would much more difficult than painting. You'll have to do more sanding to completely strip existing varnish/stain from the cabinets. But you won't had to prime & paint - once stripped, rubbing the stain in and painting on poly should be pretty easy.

[tarheels]

Welcome! My first house was very similar to yours. It was a darling thing with a great, practical floor plan. I still miss that house. Enjoy it

[mrs.jacinthe]

Welcome! Great house!

I agree with the PP who said not to paint the cabinets brown. It sounds like a great idea in theory, but in action, I've never seen a painted brown cabinet that looked "right". Paint them if you want, but please use an almost black if you want a dark color.

[pitterwoo]

Linking to Minwax Polyshades again: change stain color

They need to start paying me for rec'ing them constantly. If you are going light to dark as in this case you don't need to strip to bare wood with the Polyshades product.

[cajungal]

Looks nice! I agree with the others to restain if possible. We painted the cabinets at our last house, and it ended up getting chips, etc over time. Much easier to maintain stained wood, and it looks nicer IMO. Congratulations!

[mrs.jacinthe]

Any grainy wood will retain its grain pattern through a couple coats of paint. It's the actual *color* of the paint that's the problem. Without mincing words, painted brown cabinets look like poop. Literally.

[lemondrop]

The only issue with staining the cabinets is that they may not be all-wood. What do you guys recommend with those parts (like the ends of the cabinets and such)?

And, hi, TR. I liked that house when you posted it on ML. I think you'll really be able to give it some more personality.

[pitterwoo]

Jan 28, 2013 12:47:26 GMT -5 lemondrop said:

The only issue with staining the cabinets is that they may not be all-wood. What do you guys recommend with those parts (like the ends of the cabinets and such)?

And, hi, TR. I liked that house when you posted it on ML. I think you'll really be able to give it some more personality.

Gel stain is great for non-wood areas that you want to make look like wood.  It's very thick and doesn't need to soak in so you can create kind of a wood grain look yourself.  Hard to describe, but there are youtube videos that show what I'm talking about.  Also Minwax again: start paying me already, Minwax

[lemondrop]

Jan 28, 2013 18:31:25 GMT -5 pitterwoo said:

Jan 28, 2013 12:47:26 GMT -5 lemondrop said:

The only issue with staining the cabinets is that they may not be all-wood. What do you guys recommend with those parts (like the ends of the cabinets and such)?

And, hi, TR. I liked that house when you posted it on ML. I think you'll really be able to give it some more personality.

Gel stain is great for non-wood areas that you want to make look like wood.  It's very thick and doesn't need to soak in so you can create kind of a wood grain look yourself.  Hard to describe, but there are youtube videos that show what I'm talking about.  Also Minwax again: start paying me already, Minwax

LOL! I've always wondered how to deal with that. 

[tarheels]

Behold, brown paint in action: www.inthefunlane.com/2009/07/bedroom-armoire.html

I think that product pitterwoo recommends is really cool.

[emjacobs]

I love it and welcome over here!! I love the window in the bathroom