Tips and Tricks to Refinish Oak Cabinets

Refinish oak cabinets can be sold for a considerably high price. That is because the finishing process of the oak cabinet cannot be said as an easy thing to do. Even so, that does not mean that you cannot do the finishing of the oak cabinet on your own. If you are a little bit lack on the budget but you want the oak cabinet, you can simply buy the unfinished oak cabinet and do the finish on your own. If you do not know how, then you need to follow these steps below.

Steps to Refinish Oak Cabinets

The first thing that you need to do is to remove every simple parts of the cabinet starting from the drawers, the doors, and even the knobs. After that, you need to prepare the liquid to wash the cabinet first. The combination is just a trisodium phosphate and the hot water. After you wash it, make sure that you wipe the cabinet until it dries. After the washing process, you can continue to the sanding process. For this process, you need to choose the soft sandpaper to get the better result of the sanding process. After that, clean the cabinet from the dust.

After the sanding process, you just need to paintbrush the cabinet. For this step, you need to make sure that you paint it carefully and evenly or it will go bad. You need to do this process for all of the parts of the cabinet. After finishing the paintwork process, you just need to wait until the paint dries and cover the cabinet with the special coating material with the oil based. Since you have done all of that, you can sand it once more to get the best finish. However, you need to make sure that you sand the cabinet very carefully so that you will not damage the refinished cabinet.