Can I use lacquer as a primer/sealant before I paint my kitchen cabinets?

Saturday, January 16th, 2010 at 9:23 am  
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Long story here…we’re painting our kitchen cabinets to get our house ready to sell. They were a dark cherry color and everything else in our kitchen is light so we wanted to paint them white. They’re the originals in a 52 year old house. I read everything I could find online so they would look good and not like someone threw paint on them.

SO I cleaned them with TSP substitute solution and then used two coats of liquid deglosser. I didn’t think it was quite enough so I sanded them as well using tack cloth before priming them with 123 primer, I did two coats. The next day when I went to sand off excess and the primer peeled right off and would easily scrape off…I guess they weren’t deglossed enough. I of course was devastated b/c all the work I’d done seemed to have been for nothing. They looked horrible and so I stripped the primer off…it was a mess all over the doors. There is still a good amount of primer stuck in the insides of the door crevices, I’m still trying to get it all off.

I’m not exactly sure what to do next and have heard several different pieces of advice. Someone told me to use lacquer on them and that it would seal them and make the paint stick. Someone else told me to use KILZ but I’m afraid that will do the same thing the 123 primer did. I’m leaning towards using lacquer and have searched unsuccessfully online to see if that was an ok thing to do. The person who told me that said her son refinishes furniture all the time and does that so he doesn’t have to prime. Is this the right way to go? Most of the cabinet frames have only been cleaned, will they be ready to paint if I just lacquer them? I’ve worked on these stupid cabinets for about 24 hours so far and just want to be done with them, please help!




Can you spray paint a computer chair?

Monday, September 28th, 2009 at 5:59 pm  
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I have a very simple computer chair–not a fancy office chair or anything. I was was wondering if I could spray paint the black plastic frame of the chair with a gold metallic spray. I would cover the fabric so it doesn’t get paint on it. Would the paint stick? Would it flake off? Do I need a primer? Thanks!




  
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