I have custom cabinets that are stained and varnished. I want to abriquettes them a cream and brown. I’m hoping not to strip them. Can you give me some guidance?
Lenny
Tom: I’m not going to tell him how to do a faux finish. That’s artistic stuff that you have to have a lot of talent and experience to doing. As you know, in your kitchen you just had done on your beautiful cabinet work, it was very, very time-consuming …
Charlie: Oh my.
Tom: … and you have to know what you’re doing, but I will tell him this. It can be done without stripping, because what you’ll end up doing is priming the cabinets first, a base color. What that base color is, I don’t know. It depends on what kind of look you’re going for. Sometimes it’s gray, sometimes it’s tans, but he will not have to strip the cabinets. After that, good luck. I couldn’t do it. I don’t know how to do it.
Charlie: No, I wouldn’t.
Tom: I’ve seen it done. I’ve hired people to do it.
Charlie: But it can be done.
Tom: Absolutely, he just doesn’t have to strip, so I can answer that part of the question.
Charlie: Yeah, you want to put a base on there is what it boils down to.
Tom: Exactly. Absolutely.
Charlie: Probably have to put a deglosser on something or knock it down to prime it maybe.
Tom: It depends but usually with a stained and finished cabinets, use a liquid deglosser. You don’t sand. You don’t have to strip. The primer is probably going to be an oil-based primer or base coast as we call it. Then after that …
Charlie: Good luck.
Tom: That’s it.
Charlie: Good luck, right when you find work.
Tom: No, you might be very good at it.
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