by Felix_Esq » Wed Apr 14, 2021 9:59 am
Your galley ideas are all so helpful! I wish I was as handy with wood as you all are.
I plan to paint my cabinets for a couple reasons.
First, I am a terrible carpenter (at least at this early stage). There are visible mistakes, scratches, and dings all over. If I sand, fill, sand, prime, sand, paint, sand, paint, and urethane, I can hide all those mistakes.
Second, I am doing this build as a neophyte and I am trying to go as light as possible on costs. Because of that, I am not using the fanciest of materials. I have been using "SandePly" which is marketed at Home Depot as a "hardwood ply" but it is not nearly as pretty as other types of plywood out there. I decided early to paint, rather than to stain/varnish them.
I went to the 'Depot yesterday looking for cabinet paint. The paint guy happened to have a gallon of alkyd paint very close to the color I was looking for, in his mistake bin for $9. That plus a small bit of urethane, and I was out the door for $15.
I will post results when I can.
-Felix
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Felix_Esq on Wed Apr 14, 2021 10:03 am, edited 1 time in total.
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