#AskFleurish Episode 8: How to Paint Kitchen Cabinets with CHALK PAINT

says relize okay can you see me yeah all right good morning everyone good afternoon good afternoon I guess it's 12:30 it's Tuesday this is episode number 8 of ask flourish and I don't know why it's because 8 episodes to do this but we are going to be doing kitchen cabinets it's definitely the number one thing that people are coming into the store to buy our paint for and you know the kitchen is the most remodeled room in the home absolutely number one the the kitchen is the heart of the home everyone spends so much time in their kitchen and a lot of us have really dated cabinets they're probably solid oak or solid maple good quality wood and the footprint is just fine you know why would you rip out all of your kitchen cabinets to replace them not only is it extremely expensive to replace all your cabinets but then what are you doing with all of that afterwards it's going in a landfill responsible remodeling is refinishing them if they are perfectly fine so don't reface them and replace them with pressed board keep your solid wood that's the perfect thing to paint and I'm going to show you the best way to paint and prep because chalk paint is definitely the best way to DIY it's not a latex bandaid that you're putting on you're truly creating a beautiful hand-painted finish that's going to increase the value of your home every dollar spent in the kitchen you're gonna be able to get back out should you resell and you want something that's going to last you don't want paint that's gonna chip off your cabinets your time and your effort your labor is the vast majority of it you can refinish your average kitchen for somewhere between 200 and 400 dollars using our product and you couldn't even reface probably a pantry door for that so really really awesome awesome stuff in here today and we're gonna go ahead and get started we're gonna focus and pretty tight on most of what I'm doing today so that you can really really see the details of what is going on so again this is a splurge episode eight painting and waxing kitchen cabinets the first thing you need to do is prep and the beautiful thing about using chalk paint is that you don't have to do a ton of prep but you do need to do some prep so we're going to be using basic H this is my favorite cleaner would you sell it here at the store it's a Shaklee product it's wonderful if you have a local Shaklee person certainly buy it from them otherwise you can get it from us the reason why I like this product is because it's completely non-toxic it's very safe to work with it rinses very clean and it doesn't leave a residue behind that could fight with your paint so I love that any other non-toxic cleaner is fine please don't use TSP or any other really harmful substances this is a really kind paint we need to be environmentally safe and using that it's just it's just not necessary and you could actually do some harm to your to your body in that and you might leave residue behind that could fight with your paint so non-toxic cleaner basic H is great this is going to make 48 gallons so I've got some water in this bucket here I'm going to use about a teaspoon and a half for the water that I have in here so my fancy measurement to sporting a little bit in there that around so the best tool that you can use to clean with are these little sponges here so I like the scotch brite any brand will use I like the scratchy side that's in here because this is really going to abrade away any you know cruddy stuff that's on here your kitchen cabinets are probably dirtier than you realize with a lot of hidden grease and things like that so I'm going to wash them with this side and I'm going to rinse them with this side so in here I'm gonna work and I'm gonna scrub through cleaning all of that and you can see I'm putting a little bit of muscle into it because I really want to make sure that I'm doing a good thorough job in cleaning this because a clean dry surface it's gonna give you the best prep that you can get for painting you do not need to strip off your finish you do not need to sand your cabinets you do not need to crime them our paint is going to adhere better than any primer so just clean but more in here these are really grody you can see I'm really getting all of that grime off of there and I'm spending time to get into the corners and pull all of that out and I'm I'm putting some pressure on here because I really want to make sure that I'm getting anything that's kind of sunk down into that finish that's on there so if any of you are thinking about painting your kitchen cabinets I'd love to know how big your kitchen is tell me what color you're thinking tell me whether or not you're gonna tackle it with a friend do it yourself all right I'm gonna rinse this take this side and I'm just gonna pull off you can see they're very very dirty very dirty pull that back off very dirty here that's why it's important to rinse you need to rinse them as well as you would rinse your hands when you are washing your hands if I leave a few little bubbles on here the nice thing about using basic ages those little bubbles are not going to fight with my finish and that's one of the big reasons why I really like this cleaner so I'm gonna wipe that off and I just want to make sure that my sponge is clean when I'm done so I know that there's no more dirt on there that looks pretty good now so I want to make sure that this dries thoroughly if I'm doing my whole kitchen I'm gonna let my cabinets dry for a couple of hours before I want to start painting because you don't want to trap any moisture down into them right now we're gonna look at painting so I put a little bit of paint on here earlier and I want to show you a few little tricks to painting oak I would say that oak cabinets are probably the number one wood that we hear from people coming in to the shop a smoother cabinet like I just did which is probably maple you don't have this open grain can you tell what that green is in the photograph you see what that is you see that really open grain in there and if you paint traditional way of working with the grain can you see all those holes that are there so when you work with that you end up with all of these little pockets in here does that show up on there and they look closer all of these little air pockets from the grain are in there and I don't have paint so it looks like I've missed a spot or that I don't know how to paint the key is to really working with a good natural bristle brush to properly load your brush you really want to make sure that all the sides of your brush have paint okay you don't want to just put a little tiny bit on you want all the sides of your brush to have paint you don't want it to be dripping I've wiped the excess off and you'll notice that I'm only using about the first quarter of my brush that's a properly loaded brush I don't want paint all the way back here to my metal ferrule that's just gonna rust it and you're gonna get too much paint on there it's gonna get doopy and make a big mess so you just want to do about the first you know quarter to maybe a third of the brush is good and you want to paint kind of opposite what that grain is so I'm not gonna paint with the grain and do these little stripes like this because then it's gonna look weird now I'm gonna have you know brushstrokes that are going opposite the grain and then I have the grain going this way instead what I want to do is I want to kind of work against the grain but then I'm going to just notice how I'm just pushing it in different directions I'm not having any particular type of motion just trying to push the paint down into that grain and very very lightly take the weight of my brush and just tickle that surface like that and that's going to get my brush strokes out and it's going to be very nice you don't want your brushstrokes to go in in one direction because that's actually going to highlight any kind of flaws that you might have in your wood you really want to so you notice I'm kind of working against the grain and then in any which direction no particular direction at all if you're excited about painting your cabinets give me some lights on here if you're thinking about doing it you like what we're doing here in our ask flourish videos we'd like to hear from you so we need some thumbs up so notice see I'm just kind of letting the brush carry me along at the surface so that's a ton of paint right there if I leave my paint on very heavy and I paint with the grain like I would with latex you're gonna leave a lot of brushstrokes on here a lot of brushstrokes and you're gonna use a lot more paint than you need to you don't want to put your paint on thickly like that and brush with the grain you really want to challenge that old notion when you're using this product and spread that paint out a lot further look how far I can spread that paint I'm going to pick that up and I'm going to finish paint all of this I'm gonna pick up some more of that paint that's on there that's too much and I'm gonna be able to finish painting the whole rest of this door with the amount of paint that's on there still have too much on there spread it out a little more so when you are working with the paint you can absolutely do a single coat if that's the look that you like but I do recommend that on kitchen cabinets and something that's gonna get a lot of wear and tear that you do you know two to three really thin coats of paint letting each one dry in between the first coat you know you can let drive 15 minutes and you're fine the second coat I would let dry a couple of hours before I put that third coat in or overnight because you really want to make sure that it's truly truly dry that your paint is completely dry before you wax it and I let my last coat of paint dry overnight before I wax just to make sure it is thoroughly dry because you don't want to trap any moisture underneath that underneath that wax so when I'm working on the cabinets why do I want wax I like to use wax for a few reasons one it is just a million times easier to use than a polyurethane or lacquer or anything like that where I need to worry about brush strokes and drips and over brushing and all of that the other thing is that the wax just gets a really beautiful finish and it's really easy to maintain so I'm gonna put a coat of clear wax on this I'm using one of these wax brushes this is our waxing brush that we carry at the store this is a co2 artisans product I've got a couple of them here and I like that Kota artisans brush because I like this flat flat finish on the brush here then what this does is it really helps massage the wax down into the paint and what I'm trying to do is I'm trying to fill up whatever amount of paint that I have here on the surface with wax no more no less just the amount of paint that on here so I'm not using a ton of wax and just like the paint you know a couple of thin coats is better than a heavy coat it's nearly impossible to get it to fill in perfectly on one coat we are humans after all and you know contrary to popular belief more wax or a heavier coat of wax does not equal more protection it just doesn't your dinner wax is going to actually give you a nicer shine and a better finish and more protection than more wax so I'm putting my wax on my wax brush this is a fair amount of wax but I've got a cloth with me this is one of our better than cheese cloth towels and I'm gonna work in a small section and I'm going to rub the wax down in here and if you think of it like putting on hand cream I think that that is the best analogy you doing a little back and forth I can do a little rub I'm not spending a ton of time on it I'm just gonna do that section and then I'm gonna immediately wipe off the excess and notice I'm just wiping pretty much in one direction here and just pulling off anything extra that might be sitting on the surface I'm not rubbing it back and forth that's buffing you can do that later if you want but it's not necessary so when I feel the surface now it feels moisturized it feels soft but it doesn't feel wet or sticky or tacky okay it just feels moisturized so notice I'm just working in small sections too so I'm being a little more methodical about how I put this on because I want to know where I've gone and see you can't tell where you start and stuff it's wonderful you don't have to worry about overlap marks you don't have to worry about you know being so perfect you just put it on and you see the pressure that I'm doing I'm not doing this delicate like just barely painting it on the surface this isn't gonna do anything nothing at all but I'm not doing this either you don't need to hurt your brush you don't need to hurt your hand it's not high pressure my bristles are moving I'm pushing it down into the surface so that it can soak into the paint that's there and if you think about it like putting on hand cream the same pressure that you would use to rub in that hand cream is what you are doing so you know I'm not doing this with my hand cream it wouldn't do anything if I just barely touch on it but I'm not you know breaking my knuckles off either so that same pressure that I would use on there is what what you want to use with your brush you have a question yes Melissa pen says I have been afraid to do my cabinets for fear of not being able to ever go back if trends change is this technique hard to undo or is it like any other peanut piece and being able to use strippers oh sure absolutely I mean if you wanted to repaint it as long as you use our brand of paint you can absolutely paint over it and change the color with the wax you could certainly strip off the wax with like mineral spirits if you wanted to and then repaint with it you know another type of paint or you can use a stripper and take everything off and go back to stained wood absolutely absolutely so you know that's the great thing about paint it's never to the point of no return you can always change your mind and you know go back and do something that's why you want to work on solid wood and not something like plastic or you know laminate or something like that that isn't going to last as if you're working over wood there's no limit to how many times you can you could redo something so absolutely so I don't know if this is going to show on the video but I'm going to try to put on you turn a little bit too much wax here and so that you can kind of see so on here it doesn't look like I have a heavy amount of wax you can't really see that now can you see my finger can you tell that on the video how I'm just making like slight marks in there so it doesn't look like I have a lot on there but I have a ton of wax on there so I really want to make sure that I pull off that excess onto my floss turn my cloth and wipe that back off so that when I do this I'm not leaving those marks behind it needs to be feeling dry it just feels soft it feels moisturize and when I do cabinets like I said I like to go over and do two coats of wax letting the first one dry at least an hour before I put the second one on so I'm giving it time to settle in to into the paint and and dry and then my second coat said wait at least an hour you're gonna get better result it's going to be a little easier to work with or you can wait overnight if you want you can wait a few days if you're busy and you can't get back to it that's perfectly fine also and you're gonna put that second coat on the same way now you're not doing that second coat of wax to get a waxy buildup you're not doing it to get added protection you're only doing it to make sure that you have even coverage all over your piece and that you haven't missed a spot so that second coat of wax is only gonna soak in where it needs to in your paint and it's going to really glide across the surface and spread out that wax where you're already filled in so again think about that hand cream analogy when you're rubbing in that hand cream if you have too much hand cream on there you can't just keep rubbing and have it go in it's not gonna soak into your skin you only have so much skin there so you end up kind of pushing it up your arm or you ask a friend or somebody to take some of that hand cream for you or you wipe it on with a towel you have to do something with it it's not going to keep soaking into that same spot that's how your wax is working that's why we have the tower so I'm going to dip into my wax here again and now this time I'm going to be able to go a lot further because I can feel this gliding along the surface a lot more and I'm rubbing that rubbing up again I'm gonna go back and I'm gonna pull off that excess wax with my cloth wipe wipe that's it you're not spending a ton of time it's not the super difficult long process of working it just isn't if it takes you half an hour to whack something you are working way too hard I'm gonna wipe off that excess and I'm giving it a good pull I'm putting a little bit into it you know again I'm not you know shaking I'm not working that hard but I'm not just touching it I am wiping it wiping it off holding it off and making sure that there's no no extra on a surface and it feels really good there really was very slick again I'm gonna just wipe that off all right I'm gonna let this dry for a little while and then I can go back and buff it okay so I'm gonna show you on this brown paper because it's very easy to see how it soaks in with the wax so if you do swirls like this you can see how you can easily get all of these little holes in here as the wax soaks into the brown paper where you've missed you can't really see that on your paint so easily so that's why I'm not a big fan of just doing swirls I like to be a little bit more methodical and kind of do one of these and now you can see where it's starting to soak in and fill in those areas that we had missed before and so now this is going to give you that even application of wax so doing that second coat even if you've missed a big spot you can go back and it's gonna fix itself on that second coat it's gonna soak in and this is all going to be nice and even by the time it's it's done soaking in and drawing pretty cool right so what if you want to do some distressing I recommend that you wax first put a coat of clear wax on here and wipe off my excess as I go so the wax brush gets down into those corners really nice can you see that how it just puts the wax down in there and pulls it right back out I can really get it down into all of those edges so nicely and it really does the work for you by really massaging it down into that surface you have the least amount of waste when you use a brush like this because it's doing the work for you it's rubbing it down in there and I don't have something that's absorbing a lot of it if I wax with my cloth my club is gonna absorb about 30% of my wax that's a lot of wax that's wasted and it's hard to know what the cloth is absorbing and what the paint is absorbing so using a brush this definitely makes faster work of it easier to get in those edges and corners and the least amount of waste if you're working on a big project like your kitchen cabinets you're already saving a ton of money get the right tools they make a huge difference okay so I've put my first coat on and then I'm going to do a little bit of distressing so I've got an August and blue color underneath here and I like my sandpaper kind of small so I tear that in half and here I'm using 220 grit I like the 220 grit or distressing I'm gonna be able to see a little bit of my original wood underneath here and a little bit of my office in blue and here I'm gonna kind of let the chief talk to me and decide where I want to just stress it a little bit more so where my where my handle is probably gonna wear a little more so I'm gonna go in and hit that just a little bit harder you can see where the wax is really starting to clog up my sandpaper so that's why I like to use these little pieces all folded like that so that I can flip it and then when I flip it I can really hit it and get that color much more quickly work on my corner a little bit more and flip it again it starts to kind of clog up so you'll notice that as I'm doing this I'm just gonna very lightly wipe off that sanding this not much my color looks kind of funky you know I can see these lighter areas now in these darker areas so that's why you want to put your second coat of wax on after you do your sanding because that is going to even out your wax application obviously the areas where my August and blue is I don't have any wax and some of these areas I've sanded some of the wax off so when I go back you'll see there boom my color is back to where it's supposed to be and I don't have any of those funky lines anymore pulled it off put my towel every whole lot that excess wax the second coat of wax you can see a little bit more where you're going with that because you've sanded and you can see my wax goes a lot further on this coat because I'm almost fully absorbed into that first coat already I'm just fine-tuning that all right so you can see how that looks really very natural it looks like this could truly be an old piece that's worn away like that and when you wax first and then sand that gives you that much more natural looking distressing doing that if you stand directly on your paint you are going to stand back probably more than you want to because it does stand back so quickly and you're also going to compress your paint which makes it more difficult for it to absorb the wax so when you when you put that when you put that wax on and sand and then wax again you're going to have better results all right let that dry a little bit okay so here's my piece that has clear wax on it I do want to show you a little bit of dark wax I caution a little bit against using dark wax on your kitchen cabinets if it's something that you are going to use a lot if you've got young children and you cook a lot in your kitchen the clear wax you can't see where you start myself you can't see we're starting stop you you know it is totally seamless your dark wax it's gonna be a little bit trickier so if you need to touch up your cabinets for some reason or redo that your dark wax is going to be a little more difficult to do so if you if you are not in a high used kitchen you can absolutely dark wax your whole cabinet if you're in a high used kitchen you're gonna want to keep your dark wax just too you know in here where you're not gonna get a lot of wear and tear so my little pro tip for the dark wax is so dark so so dark mr.stavis turistic is using just a little bit of mineral spirits so the odorless mineral spirits I like to put just a little bit in my can and I'll put it directly into my tin of wax because I always like my wax to be just a bit thinner so I put that down into there and I'm going to stir this push it down in there if you can see what I'm doing can you see what I'm doing so I'm looking for a consistency that is like thick pudding okay I even though this is a soft wax and it's much softer than paste wax my process is a little bit different for dark wax even whether you use this dark brown or you use the black wax you always want to do it over your clear because your clear is your seal coat that's your needed one it love it that gives you your protection and the dark wax is just going to give you a patina it's not changing the color it's just aging it a little bit can you see that nice consistency now now it's just a little bit looser this is perfect it's a really thick pudding can you tell what that looks like just a nice thick pudding it looks a little bit glossy err that's perfect I don't want to diminish the wax by playing too much mineral spirits in there and just making it a big watery mixture because mineral spirits removes wax if we have too much mineral spirits we're going to take off this nice protective clear coat that we have we don't want to do that so just enough to get at this little bit glossy err little bit looser is absolutely perfect perfect perfect so you can absolutely if you want to go in with like a little artist brush and you can just hit the highlights if you just want to get that little bit in the edges and just see how it just paints on really nicely when you when you have that little bit of mineral spirits in there so I still want to work in sections and I still have to wipe off my excess your wax is never going to change the color of your paint that's a mistake I see a lot of people wanting to do is have it change the color wax still needs to be wiped off you still need to keep it thin so if I'm just working along those edges like that and I get a little bit of wax up here and I didn't want it and I only want it down there here's the cool thing I can go in with my clear wax and a towel because my towel is absorbent and I can take that and I can wipe off that dark wax see how I pulled off the color and now I've got this nice clean line where I don't have any dark wax here you cannot do that with glaze you cannot do that with stain you cannot do that with polyurethane so love love that you can do that I'm gonna pull off this little excess right here again so I can really make it nice and you see the how I've just left it in the crevices there and I pull I've been able to pull it off that top really nice I certainly can do the whole thing if I want to I'm gonna do the whole thing I'm gonna use one of my one of my a nice little wax brushes I really like these pointed ones for doing this because again I'm not massaging this dark wax down into my surface that's what this guy's for for the clear now I'm just I want it to glide along the surface I want it to be very slick and I just want to paint it on so I'm going to get in my corners and I'm going to glide along my surface like that and then I'm gonna take my towel and I like to wipe with the grain on this one to just pull off that excess so the other thing you can do too is if you feel like this is too much you can certainly mix some clear and some dark together and you can you know create a lighter mix so that you're just you know giving it a little less patina a little less aged whole thing there cover that I'm gonna go back I'm gonna wipe off my excess and I notice I'm turning my towel to make sure I'm pulling that off and that I'm not dragging more along there I like that it can catch in that little bit of grain that's there in the spoke and highlight that really pretty grain that was on there there see not so pretty right if you decide it's too much again I can take that I can take that cloth because the cloth is absorbent with some clear wax and I can go in and I can lighten it up I can pull it all off if I want but if I just lightly go over it and pull a little bit off I can get that look where it's just a little bit aged but my French linen color is still primary so see how that can really change the look so from the exterior here to the interior you can get any kind of range like that so I want to show you one other thing that's really awesome about wax and why I like using wax over this paint now this paint is unique in that it actually is absorbing this wax so if you use a latex paint or some self sealing paint the wax isn't gonna do a lot because it can't soak into it this paint is designed to be talking and absorbent that's where talk paint name comes from and it absorbs down into that wax and it gives you a lot more of a protective layer so you can do things like I have this cabinet here that we painted the and you know life happens crazy things happen so what if your three-year-old decides to draw a masterpiece on your cabinets with some sharpie marker that's permanent if you have factory finished cabinet and you have a varnish or a polyurethane that you've used on your cabinets or you know another brand of finishing product that you put on there that Sharpie is on there and now you will have to strip your finish off you're gonna have to use some stripper and when you do that not only are you going to take your clear coat off but you're going to take your paint off you're gonna take your stain off and anything else that's on that cabinet so whether you've done a stain finish a painted finish whatever varnish it's just stuck there it's not going anywhere you're gonna have to start all over again here's what's so cool about using this wax here's my wax on my towel again watch this look at how I'm getting that sharpie right off it's all on my towel in this cabinet door was painted 3-4 weeks ago yep look at that gone absolutely gone I just fixed that in what five seconds five seconds so you know that table that you have sitting at home right now that had fingernail polish remover on it six years ago and it's still sitting there with the tablecloth askew on it because you can't show anybody if it would been finished with chalk paint you could have fixed it in five seconds so awesome awesome stuff so we would love to hear from you and know about your kitchen cabinet projects if you've got any questions about doing your kitchen cabinets we are here to support you you can put your question down below whether you find this on our youtube channel or here on facebook you can absolutely ask us questions down below and we will answer it the very last step that you may want to do with your kitchen cabinets is buff them and I recommend buffing for kitchen cabinets just because when you buff your wax you actually harden it a little bit more that Sheen is going to be more resistant to fingerprints and different marks like that so again I like to use a buffing brush you can absolutely use a cloth and you really need to rub very very very vigorously with a cloth to get that Sheen it's hard to get in your corners and things like that just like why we want to use a wax brush so we really like using these buffing brushes I can go in and in that much time get a nice buck I can get down at my crevices I can get this beautiful Sheen just rubbing over my surface these are made out of horsehair kind of like the idea of a shoeshine brush only it's designed for furniture it's soft it's not going to scratch and it is all horsehair which does a beautiful job of buffing and not scratching so I can do that can you see that nice Sheen that's on there so now you have this beautiful professional looking finish this high-end looking finish and you've spent a little bit of time a little bit of money and that's it just a little and you have this whole brand-new kitchen so well thank you very much for watching today I'll be watching for your questions and remember to post your projects either on Instagram or Facebook and to make sure that you tag at flourish home on there and if you really want to make sure that your theme use our hashtag paint create flourish all put together in one word and every single Monday we feature a customer project and give you $10 to spend in the store if we put you on there so we'd love to see your projects thanks so much for watching we'll see you guys next week

Channel: Fleurish Home

Views: 148,494

Rating: 4.8123455 out of 5

Keywords: fleurish home, fleurish, flourish home, flourish, fluerish, fluerish home, annie, sloan, chalk, paint, chalk paint, kitchen, update, how to, style, diy, wax, how to wax

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Length: 41min 35sec (2495 seconds)

Published: Tue May 22 2018