painting kitchen cupboard doors.

[clivington]

I am currently decorating the kitchen. In order to save money on buying new cupboard doors I am trying to change the colour of my exisiting doors which are dark wood stain and varnished. I sandpapered the doors down to roughen the surface and applied two coats of undercoat and a final coat of white gloss.
This appeared to look quite good but the slightest knock seemed to chip the paint right down to the original dark wood. Would it be helpful if I applied a coat of clear varnish over the white gloss in order to make them more resilient to chips, or would it change the overall appearance of the colour?

 

[Zampa]

Sorry mate..it aint good news.

Putting varnish over them wont help you as all the 'action' is going on between the old coating and the undercoat you put on.

Varnish will eventually go yellow adding to your problems.

Then only thing I can suggest is removing the paint rubbing them down again and then giving them a coat of either dulux super grip, zinseer bin or other problem surface primers like internationals melamine primer....then re-coating.