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Laundry Room Make Over - lscraig - 04-08-2024
We have been in our house 27 years. The kids are raised and out. My wife of 31 years decided she needed to upgrade the laundry The original cabinets were white MDF and a lot smaller inside than they looked. Anything larger than a bottle of detergent had to be stored in the garage. The walls were a robin egg blue with wallpaper border at the top. As seen in the "BEFORE" photo, the laundry was cluttered because anything that wouldn't fit in the cabinets was stacked on the dryer top.
We went to the local PPG paint store in search of color palate ideas. She grabbed a card with 5 different "Shades of Gray". Yeah, we made our own jokes about that.
Before Picture
The laundry ended up having light gray walls in eggshell sheen. My wife also decided to scrape all the awful popcorn off the ceiling and upgrade the light fixture
The cabinets were painted with three coats PPG Break Through Gray Flannel satin finish. Cabinet interiors are simply clear coated with General Finishes High Performance Satin Poly. Everything was spray applied. The PPG Break Through had to be thinned between 10-15% with water to get it to flow out of my Porter Cable HVLP with a 2.2mm needle. The clears were designed for spraying, so I was able to use a 1.4mm needle with them
After Pics
Cabinets are 1/2"/12mm maple ply with poplar face frames. Interior shelves are 1/2" plywood with maple edge banding. The Break Through paint is self priming and went on smooth as butter and appears to be tough as nails. It stuck to everything, dried fast and hard allowing for smooth sanding between coats.
The center shelves are left over 1/2" maple ply with some red oak front nosing stained dark. The front and top of the shelves are top coated with General Finishes Satin WB The rest of the shelf box frames is scrap poplar and supports the shelves from underneath. The center shelves are through bolted into the cabinet carcass and supported with 100# drywall anchors at the back.
This is the first time I have used PPG paint as a cabinet color. Very please so far. The one take away from the "Break Through" paint is that it dries superfast, which doesn't allow a lot of time to flow out if brushing with a brush. A decent quality, fine bristle brush designed for water-borne acrylic is going to be a must if not spraying.
RE: Laundry Room Make Over - Tapper - 04-13-2024
"Before" pics not working for me. After pictures look very nice. Always nice to redo an area and make it more "user friendly."
Doug