GOODBYE brown ugly cabinets!!!
I’ve been sooo looking forward to painting these cabinets. It took me awhile to figure out what color I wanted them. Part of me wanted to do something bold like yellow or blue, but I ended up with Paris Grey. Then I can do some funky curtains and pillows and be able to change them out when I’m ready for different colors, rather than having to repaint.
If you haven’t used chalk paint, it’s pretty straight forward. It’s hard to mess up. If you have some rough edges, you can lightly sand. However, as long as your cabinets are clean, you don’t have to do any prep-work by sanding or stripping them. After all, it’s a camper and it doesn’t have to be perfect! Any brush will do, I’ll link a couple at the bottom of this post with my favorites. I do have some of Annie Sloan’s brushes, and while I love them!.. You don’t need to spend that much money on them for a one time use of camper cabinets. It dries incredibly fast, you could paint both coats if you have to. Just let them dry a bit in between to cure. I like to wait a couple days and then wax. So it hardens up. Waxing isn’t difficult, it’s just time consuming.
Waxing:
This can be done a couple different ways, and I feel like everyone has their own technique. You can use a wax brush: dip it into the can, swirl it around on the lid a bit to even out your brush, then go in circular motions to cover over the paint. You’ll be able to see where you’ve already applied it. Once you have a good section covered, take a soft rag, or a Blue Shop Towel and ‘buff’ the wax. Basically you just rub out in circles or up and down motions. It seems as though you are wiping all the wax off, but you’re smoothing it all out and making sure it’s even. You can also do this same process with a cheese cloth (one to dip into the wax, then a clean one to buff)
I painted over the hinges, but not the handles
Daughter of a Farmer 