How to update kitchen furniture

How to update kitchen furniture

If your kitchen furniture is not pleasing to the eye any more, but acquisition of new set is not planned yet, it is possible to turn old furniture into new. But how to update kitchen furniture quickly and with the minimum expenses?

1. The easiest way to update kitchen – to work over furniture facades, having changed their color. Plastic or wooden facades can be recoloured or fitted self-adhesive film then to install new door handles. And your kitchen will change.

2. To do this operation, first of all it is necessary to take out all boxes and to remove all doors from loops, having turned off at the same time handles and other accessories. Then all surfaces which will be painted or pasted over it is necessary to wash properly (it is possible to use solution of soda or cleaning agents for kitchen) and to dry. Then degrease surface, having wiped it with acetone or white spirit.

3. It is possible to paint kitchen furniture with any waterproof paint (latex, acrylic, oil). But one of optimal variants is automobile enamel in barrels. She well and exactly lays down even on the plastic surfaces which hardly are giving in to coloring is easily put and pretty fast dries.

4. If you have decided to use self-adhesive paper, keep in mind: occupation this laborious, demanding special accuracy. That the film has not gone "wrongly", before the pasting it is possible to moisten slightly facades with cold water – in that case the film will be pasted not at once, and you will have time to move or correct irregularly the "sat-down" film. Pasting film, smooth it from the center to edges, "dispersing" bubbles and wrinkles in the parties – the same as it becomes at sticker of wall-paper.

5. The table-tops rubbed and lost the exterior can be removed and fitted dense oilcloth on fabric basis, having chosen it to match your new facades. It is rather simple procedure therefore you can change oilcloth though every month – as soon as previous it will be damaged or will just bother. It is possible to fix oilcloth by means of bilateral adhesive tape.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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