Back in Nov we bought our first home..Price,size,yard, location it was everything we were looking for but the inside well not so much lol good thing the hubby is handy :) The kitchen was the worst for me, its where I spend 90% of my time in the house, it was old and dark!! really dark!! Getting new cabinets was not going to happen, they were not even close to being in our budget. In the past I have repainted and stained a few dresser's so I started to think how much harder could cabinets be..Now when I do dresser I sand them all the way down to the wood, for the kitchen and the amount of other work that still had to be done in the house sanding was out of the question for me. I wanted easy,fast and clean!! After countless days reading online the I felt Rustoleum Cabinet Transformations was the best route for me..
In the Box :
- Instructional Pamphlet
- Instructional DVD
- Deglosser
- Bond Coat
- Decorative Glaze (Optional)
- Protective Top Coat
- Decorative Glazing Cloths
- Scrub Pads
- Stir Sticks
My Kitchen before...gross...
My Little helper's :)
For the first step you will need to take off all hard wear and cabinet doors, also make sure you have a good working area. I was able to just lay them on the floor all over the house haha because our floors were not in yet..
I labeled everything..helped so much when putting doors back on..
The kits states the Deglosser will:
- Prepares the surface; allows proper adhesion of the Bond Coat
- Eliminates the need to sand, strip or prime the cabinets
Once you are done with the deglosser its time for the Bond Coat. My cabinets were so dark it took 3 coats. For me this is were I do question a little if it would have been more cost efficient for me to just buy paint and everything else that came in the kit other then the glaze (I just wanted pure white cabinets) but I wanted easy and fast.. The big reason I question this is because having to do 3 coats, for my small kitchen I was not able to do the sides of the cabinets where the oven is..there was just not enough paint. For light cabinets and only needing 2 coats it would have been great!
The Bond Coat:
- Provides maximum adhesion to wood, laminate, and melamine surfaces
- Available in an array of timeless colors
After Bond Coat has dried comes the Protective Top Coat:
- Formulated with self cross-linking technology
- Provides superior stain and scratch resistance
This go's on thick and dry's fast..so be careful not to miss any spots. let cure over night and then add your hard wear. Our hard wear was old and outdated..Amazon.com has some great prices! These were only 0.99 cents each. In retail stores hard wear could be around $2.00-$5.00 dollars each, Crazy when you have to buy 18 of them!!!
In the end if I had to do it all over again I am pretty sure I would use this kit. For the amount of time I had it was nice to be able to buy everything all in one box. If I had some extra time and a bigger kitchen I think I would look into buying the products separate. At $74.99 having to buy 2 kits for a bigger kitchen I feel I could get the cost down more. But never the less I LOVE my kitchen. And all in all the product holds up like it states it does. It's been a few months with no peeling paint & they are very easy to clean.
