White Milk Paint On Oak Cabinets

How to paint oak cabinets and hide the grain.

White milk paint on oak cabinets.

We successfully completed this project and painted our oak cabinets white over five years ago to achieve a smooth finish. I was covering my 1960 s orange oak cabinets with snow white general finishes milk paint. Steamed milk has an lrv light reflectance value of 76. Steamed milk sw7554 steamed milk by sherwin williams is one of my all time favorite paint colors.

For my cabinets it was general finishes milk paint. Here are 5 amazing paint colors to go with honey oak cabinets. The milk paint itself does well in my experience without a topcoat functionally but the poly gives it a nice bit of sheen. The cabinets at the cottage are finished.

Last updated may 14 2020. General finishes milk paint is a premium water based interior exterior acrylic paint formulated with zero voc colorants. My original tutorial on how to paint your cabinets with milk paint which you can read here has generated lots of interest within the past year and is actually becoming one of my most popular posts so i assume that many of you would like to know how durable they have proved to be over the course of 12 months. The ultimate test of milk paint you could say.

Admittedly the milk paint portion of the project wrapped up a month ago however we haven t been able to find the right hardware to work with the routed edges of the oak cabinets. It goes with everything. When painting antique white over oak or similar colors i apply at least 4 coats to get good coverage. I got tired of waiting for the glamour shot and figured it was time to.

What happened when i didn t sand. I took this picture after 3 coats of the milk paint. Originally published on february 16 2014. Milk painted upper cabinets cherry bases.

I was pretty. The milk paint is a custom mix of colors from the old fashioned milk paint company. But first a little recap. My project success is all about having found the best paint for kitchen cabinets.

I applied two coats of oil based polyurethane by brush. Now i d love to brag about it and claim it was all my decorating genius and magic touch but i ve got to be humble and give props to the true hero of the story. Today i m going to share my updated tutorial for how to paint oak cabinets and hide the grain. Sherwin williams classifies it as a light color.

It s a tall order. This photo was taken after the kitchen had been in use for 12 years.