We’ve had such a bad experience with painted cabinets in our house - I wouldn’t paint. In fact, I’m searching for our next motorhome, and our next sticks and bricks, and when I see painted cabinets, that’s an immediate No. I look no further than the kitchen.
In MY mind, the value of the motorhome or house drops 50% immediately. None of the new RVs have painted cabinets. To build cabinets, you have to use a much more expensive wood if they’ll be stained - so, paint just screams cheap builder cop-out to me.
However, this IS a much older RV. What do you plan to do with it? Painting cabinets (and antique furniture!) is popular with young people - they have no idea of the value of stained cabinets and they’re painting everything! Arrrrgh, When wood is stained, the color soaks deep into the wood grain and I wonder if you can possibly get it all off, and maybe there’s some oil in there also?
In my experience, with cabinets that were originally stained and later painted - the paint starts wearing off and chipping and peeling immediately, maybe because it was improperly prepped? Maybe because it had been stained first?
Our current house is the first house I’ve ever lived in with painted cabinets and it appears that they were originally stained some light 1980s color, and then were painted. Paint was wearing off all the cabinets - so badly that we replaced all the kitchen doors and had the whole thing professionally redone, with explicit instructions for longevity. It did no good, The paint chipped and peeled within months.
Maybe there’s a way to do this that will last, But I doubt it.
What wears off, on a stained cabinet, is the clear finish, ’exposing’ the wood under it. It doesn’t show wear as much because you already see the wood.
What wears off with a painted cabinet, is PAINT, exposing the wood or whatever under it, which is probably a diff color, and it shows,
Have I mentioned I detest painted cabinets? ?.
We’ve owned 6 different homes, and this is the first time we’ve had painted cabinetry. Never again!
Convince me I’m wrong - I’m truly listening. Painting IS cheaper, but the cabinets don’t look bad to me. It seems to me that it would be far less work to freshen them up as they are, than to prep and paint.
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