Faux Wood Grain Cabinets

I love to answer your questions… this question is about a video purchaser needing more help with their Faux Wood Grain Cabinets project.

I Purchased the "Faux Wood Grain Painting Video".   

I need help with our kitchen cabinets. We want to change the appearance of the existing oak cabinets (has Cardell golden stain on oak wood).  

These cabinets also have Cardell clear varnish top coat (top coat is a low sheen Revlar Catalyzed Conversion Varnish made for them by Akzo Noble).

We would like to make our cabinets look like cherry cabinet.   We would like to know what steps are needed to clean and prepare these cabinets to accept the faux painting. 

We will need a primer that will not destroy the surface by interacting with any of the varnish finish that might remain on the cabinets.   Do we use the plato primer color paint with Burnt Amber over it to get the honey cherry look we want?  

Are their any different graining techniques we will need to use to get the appearance of cherry wood?

First… please check out this article… it will answer some of your questions: Faux Wood Grain Cabinets.

I can't recommend a specific primer… not knowing enough about the exact finish you describe and how it will react with primer. That said… I have never had a primer "lift" a finish on cabinetry. I
always check the instructions on the can I am going to purchase… as
they usually have specific applications for each products use.

Cherry wood is very much like a large grain pine in appearance. You
would use the same color base coat as called for in the video
instructions… Yellow ochre only I would add some white to it… to get
a pale yellow instead of a brilliant "oak" cabinet yellow undertone.

The overglaze will be different. First the color is usually an orange or
red tint instead of strait brown.

I do think you need to try several basecoat and overglaze colors on
sample boards to find the exact color combination that is going to fit
your needs.

When your graining the doors… the glaze is going to have to be sloppy
wet… to get the softness of the grain instead of the "heavier" glaze I
used to create the antique old world graining I created in the videos.

It's a crap shoot with graining… because it requires some practice to
create a cherry wood grain.

I'm here to help any way I can… but I can't actually show you the
technique visually. So will have to communicate as best we can.

I hope this is somewhat helpful… Keep asking questions about Faux Wood Grain Cabinets.

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