how do i improve kitchen cabinets in a mobile home?

Question

I'm remodeling a trailer. The kitchen cabinets look horrible with years of grease and grime that have severely discolored them. I've tried scrubbing the grease off with steel wool, several cleaners, sandpaper etc. I just purchased heavy-duty degreasers from a chemical supply company, but haven't used them yet. My quesiton is what do i do to make them look more updated. they have veneer with pressed wood underneath. am i able to sand the veneer. i prefer to be able to paint them as opposed to staining (rest of the kitchen is dark wood paneling, i want to brighten it up a bit) Thank for any suggestions

Answer 1

Use a heavy duty degreaser like TSP. Remove the doors and ligthly sand all the surfaces of the cabinets and doors. Prime everything with a primer like Kilz. Then paint your doors. A semi-gloss pure white is always a good choice. Find some neat new handles and attach. Splurge a little on the handles and get what you really want- they'll add a defining touch to the overall look.

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how do i improve kitchen cabinets in a mobile home?
I'm remodeling a trailer. The kitchen cabinets look horrible with years of grease and grime that have severely discolored them. I've tried scrubbing the grease off with steel wool, several cleaners, sandpaper etc. I just purchased heavy-duty degreasers from a chemical supply company, but...

Answer 6

I helped my best friend fix up his mobile home a few years back. First of all, be careful sanding those cabinets! If you get too much of that veneer off, it'll be a very rough surface underneath. If the cabinets are smooth, and not sticky; I'd just put a couple layers of Kilz on them, then paint them.

As far as the dark wood paneling, if it has a slick finish, paint may not adhere to it. You can buy some stuff called 'Liquid Sandpaper', paint on a coat of that, then paint your walls. Also, if the house has been smoked in, as my friend's had, you may need to put a coat of Kilz on the walls before you paint. We painted his walls with Kilz and the smoke stains kept 'bleeding' thru...his walls kept turning fuchsia. After like three coats of Kilz we finally 'killed' the smoke!

Answer 7

Go to the paint store and ask for a sealer for your cabinets that are laminated. They DO have such a thing. Then pick out a nice color to paint the cabinets. Take off all of the hardware and replace it. Brushed nickel is very popular now. If the holes don't fit, you can fill them with wood putty before you paint and redrill them.

Another suggestion, if your cabinets are really beat up, you can antique them by putting on a bright undercoat, like yellow, and then white wash them over the yellow. Check out HGTV.com for how-to-do it.

Answer 8

I would make up some new doors. Measure all the existing doors and get your local wood yard to cut some 1/2" MDF to size. Get some 1/4" MDF cut into 3" strips. Cut the strips to fit around the edges of the door faces and PVA glue them on. Instant Shaker door.

Dependig on the existing door hinge systems you may have to sink 35mm hinge mortices and you could run a router round over bit around the face edge to clean up the lines.

Paint with MDF primer and then an oil based finish coats in your choice of colour. Cheap, easy to do and looks great. I have made loads for kitchen makeovers.

DWD

Answer 9

I had the same problem. I took my cabinet doors off, then I sanded them with a palm sander. Then I primed them and the cabinets. Then I painted them semi-gloss pure white. And I also went to Home Depot and got new hinges and knobs in a silver color.

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