Your favorite place in the house is now beginning to show the ravages of age and your kitchen cabinets, the plainest part of the kitchen, sport a patina of dust and dirt making them look grubby and tacky. The best way to revive good looks to your kitchen is to do something with your cabinets. New cupboards are out of the question because in these difficult commercial times, the expense is unaffordable. One answer is to refinish or reface your cupboards.

Glazing is a technique of providing your cabinets with an antique look. You can actively use the aging and knackered appearance and turn it into a chic seem like the cupboards have been aging gracefully for years. This works particularly well if your kitchen and furniture have a period or an antique look. Too often do we see kitchens glistening in glass and chrome that have a cold and aseptic look. Glaze can be added to almost any surface, whether it's been painted or stained or polished.

Glazing is a method of providing your cupboards with an antique look. You can actively use the aging and exhausted appearance and turn it into a chic look like the cabinets have been aging gracefully for decades. Glaze can be added to virtually any surface, whether it's been painted or stained or varnished.

Glazing as a process is very similar to painting. Take off the cabinet doors and all of the metal fittings like hinges. The glaze is itself is a mix of paint, and a solvent or a thinner, which would either be water or a chemical solvent. Premixed and preprepared glazes are also commercially available.

Put down a drop cloth and create a clean surface on which to work. Using a top quality natural bristle brush, apply the topping liberally to the surface ensuring that it penetrates the grain. If you are making a mistake, quickly clean up the area with thinner or solvent before the glaze starts to dry and start again.

While glazing remember that you are not looking for perfectly uniformity, and that slightly uneven coloring will simulate natural aging better than a superbly uniform coat.

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