Kitchen or bathroom cabinet REVIVAL

Old kitchen and bathroom cabinets are like bell-bottom pants: what looked good in 1977 doesn’t necessarily look so hot now. The good news is that if your cabinets show way too much wood, way too many dirt stains around knobs and drawer pulls, and way too many chips and scratches, there’s an economical alternative to total cabinet replacement. It’s also the ecologically responsible thing to do. Painting cabinet doors, drawer faces and face frames is a fast, simple, fun way to completely transform the look of your kitchen or bathroom for very little money. It’s also easy to get excellent results if you follow basics that aren’t immediately obvious.

STEP 1

Determine what you’ve got

When people get tired of their cabinets, it’s usually not the entire cabinet that bugs them. The surfaces of concern are almost always just the doors and possibly the area around the doors, called