Painting laminate kitchen furniture

Laminates furniture are cheap and easy to replace. But the paint is cheaper than buying new furniture. Painting a piece of furniture instead of replaced, adding that a sustainable lifestyle. And with the right kind of card that is good, can be done to keep your furniture for years. This technique is also suitable for laminating kitchen cabinet doors.

Laminated wood, but it seems that plastic. Acrylic paints, oil paints or regular latex won't adhere to the or-only for a short time. Shellac will. Shellac is a very difficult, but not poisonous. It is rich in volatile organic substances during the childbirth, but when the drying is considered safe for toys and furniture. Shellac is available as a clear sealer primer, and as a pigment, then laminated glass can be (and color looks), and can be painted with layers of paint to hide. The spirit, if shellac cannot be painted with latex or oil painting-acrylic or polyurethane. Latex Paint is not very strong, even if you get the best quality. You think it is suitable for painting furniture. However, once the Lake is covered with latex, latex can give a layer of polyurethane, and a heavy layer of paint on your furniture.

It may seem tedious or works so hard, that all layers of paint. However, the shellac is dry and ready to paint over an hour. The latex is drying too quickly. You can on a weekend, the layer of shellac and latex finish and have your furniture looking like new. However, for the best results, it is best to let the latex paint to harden for a few days then give the polyurethane coating. And of course you need to be careful about the room during these days. When the paint has not released yet, is vulnerable to scratches, hardened etc. If you want to make sure, that it is best not to use the cream (or put the shelves and drawers) during the day is even stronger.
The preparations are needed to obtain good results. If the Cabinet is removable, it is best to do this. Otherwise, remove the shelves and drawers. Sanding should be carefully done, with medium sandpaper is new and strong. All the credit should be sanded. After sanding, clean the room with alcohol or ammonia (diluted with water). Also remove dust from the rest of the room – then it will not fall into wet paint. Open the windows, such as shellac is a priority of volatile organic compounds during childbirth.

The painting must be done quickly because the paint dry to the touch within fifteen minutes (and ready to paint over an hour). To begin with, it is better to use roles and a few others to side-they will be very difficult to clean. By creating large areas (such as a closet of the room), make sure that the edges of the links do not dry out while you work your way to the right. Development of a system in which each side back in time before the limit is dry. You can use a little alcohol in the file, or just working in thin plates from left to right, left at the time.

When you enter the doors of the doors of the cabinets of the kitchen, you can use a few clamps, screw on the side of the door. You can associate each piece to paint, and the work of the room at a time (instead of first one side and then the other side, drying). It has a horizontal pole, such as that used to hang on clothes. With a bit of wire, pieces of furniture can be hung on hangers, eyes, you were wrong on the sides (see a side that is hidden when you put the furniture together again). On the other hand, dries so fast that shellac should just wait. If you fall on one side of each Panel, will be the first pane almost dry and ready to work.
In style the possibilities are numerous. Latex Paint is ideal for making some false marbling techniques. When you use a clear transparent latex enamel sealer, you can laminate. When you can be doing very neat, thin films as false color.