Creating Luxury Cabinets

[Mason Hilkert]

Hi there! 

I recently acquired a set of old kitchen cabinets and cupboards. I would like to turn them into luxury style white cabinets. Does anyone know how to do this or does anyone have learning resources I can look at? 

I looked at a few YouTube videos and my current (and inadequate) process is sanding the cabinets, priming them (white) multiple times, spraying white chalk paint, and finally adding a few coats of high gloss polyurethane. I used high density foam rollers for priming and added floetrol to avoid roller lines. I did this on a test door and the results were not bad but it didn't look luxury or professional! It's not smooth and one can easily tell that it is just a plain painted cupboard door. Any advice? 

Best, 

Mason H 

[Bruce Woodruff]

You will not be able to do this by yourself. I dealt in the high-end home business for a long time and the only way to do this is to have a professional painter spray these with lacquer (preferably off-site :-)

Sure you can achieve an 'ok' look by yourself but not the 'luxury' look you're talking about.