How To Distress Kitchen Cabinets
Wipe down the cabinets with a tack cloth.
How to distress kitchen cabinets. The inspiration behind my decision to distress my kitchen cabinets came from this article. See my finished product. Get out your vacuum cleaner and vacuum the floor.
We inherited black granite counter tops and painted white cabinets from the previous owners so we werent too far off of the inspiration kitchen. Kitchen makeover made easy and affordable with amy howard chalk paint and dark wax. The goal was white cabinets with a little black showing through.
Check out our facebook page. Using a small brush add more antiquing glaze to the distressed parts of the cabinets and doors. Removing the actual cabinets is not always easy or possible so you will have to do the frames where they are.
After building cabinets in my shop for a farm or country style kitchen i was faced with the task of creating a distressed finish. Vacuum your work area and wash the cabinets down to get rid of any dust. In this video laura shows you how to prep paint and glaze your kitchen cabinets from beginning to end.
In this video i show you how to distress cabinets with ease. The whole process took about 72 hours total including cleaning painting drying distressing and buffing. Follow up with a damp cloth.
Depending on the look you want to achieve a combination of various techniques can be used to distress black kitchen cabinets. Step 6 in distressing and antiquing kitchen cabinets is to darken the cabinets with additional glaze. Its all right to apply the glaze liberally in these places because some of it will be removed in the next step of the process.