Give Your Ugly Kitchen Cabinets and Easy and beautiful Make Over With Antiquing

The cheaper is tight, yet you've been dying to replace those old, worn kitchen cabinets and now know you can't for at least a minuscule while. But what do you do if you just can't stand them a day longer? Give them a new aged finish!

A girlfriend of mine recently moved in to a 1920's farm house in a small town in Washington State. The elderly lady who sold it to her hadn't updated the cabinets since they were new in 1960.

Being an artful faux discontinue artist, she set out to turn them immediately. But she didn't do it by replacing them or even re-facing them. She did it with a straightforward technique of adding decorative plaster pieces from a mold and antiquing them with a straightforward painting process.

I Love the look of painted, antiqued cabinets. I love the look of decorative plaster. What the two together creates, is a very lovely make over of your dull, drab cabinets. They add such character to the kitchen, bath (or even a piece of furniture!). Here's how to unmistakably get that elegant look:

Firstly, find a mold design that you unmistakably love. Craft market carry a few in the soap or candle aisle but you can find many on sites on the internet. Plainly quest "Ornamental Plaster Mold" and these sites will come up. Choose a design that is sized to fit in the center of your cabinet door without being overwhelming.

The thing that is most enthralling about adding plaster pieces to your cabinet doors is that they make the doors appear to have hand carved raised designs in them. Yet each piece unmistakably costs pennies to produce.

"Glaze over paint" finishes are so cool. The technique can turn the most plain and commonplace cabinetry in to something much more enthralling and beautiful. I love how this discontinue gives the cabinets real size and presence!

It can be done with any of colors, typically using a darker tone of the same or coordinating color over a lighter tone. But my favorite is cream colored paint as the base, with a light to medium brown color wash. It's soothing and enthralling and doesn't detract from other decorating you might have going on in the room.

How easy is it? Ultra!

1. Plainly use the mold and a bag of plaster of paris (found at your local home store) to cast sufficient pieces of the design for the number of cabinet doors in your kitchen. Consequent the manufacturer's easy directions.

The pieces must be bone dry and light in weight before applying to the cabinets. This can take in any place from 2 days to one week so make your pieces in improve to save time. Trust me, if you can mix up cake batter and pour it in a bowl, you can cast plaster with a mold. It's truly a cinch.

2. Wash your cabinets to remove dirt and oils then apply two coats of primer.

3. Using joint combination mixed with a minuscule white glue as your adhesive by spreading the combination over the back of the plaster piece, retention it to the center of the cabinet door for one minute. It will stick perfectly! Allow to dry for 48 hours before proceeding with paint.

4. Plainly paint your cabinet or furniture piece with the lighter version of the color you have chosen. Allow it to dry overnight.

5. Mix the deeper shade of the color you chose craft with penetrative wall glaze at a ratio of 4 parts glaze to one part paint (pretty easy, hey?).

Mix well.

6. Brush liberally on to the surface of the cabinet, paying close attentiveness to the decorative plaster piece, then immediately wipe off with a dry terry towel, allowing the combination to stay in any recesses, cracks or corners of the piece to generate a darker discontinue in those areas.

7. Once dry, seal with two coats of non-yellowing polyurethane to protect your new finish.

It's fast, it's straightforward and it's gorgeous!

This technique can be done on just about whatever and if there is any decorative information to the piece at all, you will find that the glaze Plainly brings it out even more! To make the cabinets unmistakably feel new, give the inside of the cabinets a coat of paint or new shelf liner as well.

So jump in and give those ugly cabinets an decorative face lift. You'll find you just might like them much more than if you unmistakably substituted them!