Hello,
I am moving into a house with old laminate kitchen cupboards. The kitchen isn't great... The tiles on the floor and wall are all cracked and falling off... but we hope to salvage the cupboards for a year or two until we save up enough money for a new kitchen. The cabinets are laminate with brown wood effect. I have seen online people laminating kitchen cupboards by cleaning with special laminate cleaner, lightly sanding, priming x2 coats, painting x2 coats and in some cases adding clear varnish. The results look good. However I am sceptical because these reviews are usually on blogs and do not mention how long the paint lasts! I do not mind touching up the paint, and do not expect it to last forever, but I would not be happy if it looked a mess after a year.
Has anyone done this... and if they have... has the paint job held up? I would ideally like to know if it will last a couple of years before I paint over them.
Thanks!
I am moving into a house with old laminate kitchen cupboards. The kitchen isn't great... The tiles on the floor and wall are all cracked and falling off... but we hope to salvage the cupboards for a year or two until we save up enough money for a new kitchen. The cabinets are laminate with brown wood effect. I have seen online people laminating kitchen cupboards by cleaning with special laminate cleaner, lightly sanding, priming x2 coats, painting x2 coats and in some cases adding clear varnish. The results look good. However I am sceptical because these reviews are usually on blogs and do not mention how long the paint lasts! I do not mind touching up the paint, and do not expect it to last forever, but I would not be happy if it looked a mess after a year.
Has anyone done this... and if they have... has the paint job held up? I would ideally like to know if it will last a couple of years before I paint over them.
Thanks!