Best Paint For Painting Cabinets

 What Do You Want WhenYou Paint Your Cabinets?

Cabinets. They are undoubtedly the life blood of your kitchen. They have all the potential. They dominate the landscape. They are all different sizes. Different shapes. Different positions. They even have various different pull's (handles) within the same group. And the fact that they can easily be the most expensive project in any given home, gives them the power to be a measuring stick for multiple different aspects of who you are and your success in life. 

So when someone asks me to bid the painting of their kitchen cabinets, cabinets that are wonderfully made, beautifully stained, showing the most lovely wood grains and markers of whatever tree they came from, I instantly wonder how anyone could become 'bored' with such God-given beauty. 

But change is the only way that we can feel, touch, and see, that we are able to constantly 'upgrade' our surroundings, as to never fall into a stagnant, survival mode, type of life that is made best for those of us who simply cannot afford yearly remodels, nor would we ever risk turning our backs on the only set of real, handmade cabinets that we might ever have. 

So when I think of the type of paint that should be used on a set of luxury cabinets, I think about 2 things that make up true luxury. A simple, yet elegant finish that says 'I don't need to be flashy when I look this good. And, this finish right look soft and meek, but it is actually a shell that could take 2 frying pans straight to the heart of the cabinet door and yield so much as a scratch. 

To create this finish, I start out with the best primer on the market. It is called 'Extreme Bond Primer'. 2 light coats of this stuff, and your cabinets are protected for life. I remember the first time I used it. I had heard stories about how hard it was, and sitting there, with somebody else's gold star in my hands, I dug my thumbnail straight into that cabinet door and didn't so much as leave a scratch. It is that hard.

And the paint I use for a top coat? well, that's got to be Sherwin Williams 'Emerald Urethane and Trim' paint. Sherwin gets a tough rap by a painter's who can't stand the thought of the 'McDonalds' of paint operations actually having products that might actually be worth $100n gallon. But it is just that good. Check out youtube and watch the 60-year-old painter use Emerald with a brush, and watch the finish on his cabinets magically turn into a perfect, sprayed-like finish.