areas when you wipe the cabinets. It spreads when you wipe it. I have had my cabinets in the kitchen & bathroom for 8 years now & they still look like new. I have the same problem with the painted Indigo cabinets in my bathroom. I don't dare use any soap, it will make it worse! I hope that you can help me. I have tried quite a few polishes including Guardsman. Thank you for your help. Josephine

Some new and better cabinets are designed with revolving shelves in corners of cabinets but I don't have that kind. My lower cabinet has a 9" wide opening near a corner and next to my kitchen stove with most of the storage (width as deep as the table is wide) located to the left of that opening. Even putting things straight in is hard: I must get on my knees to even reach in. Cabinet over that is just as bad (only not as deep). When I was thin and agile, I used to partly crawl into the lower shelf to organize and take things in & out. I'd climb & reach into the upper unit for stuff. Retired from work now: Recently cleared out upper cabinets and rediscovered stuff I forgot I had 30 years ago that were covered with a layer of kitchen grease. Have any ideas rather than demolition and replace?

Any advice? it's a beautiful apartment in a historic building. the kitchen cabinets have been painted SO MANY times, they won't close all the way (about an inch more or less)
I was thinking of using the stripping gel around the edges, and using a scraper.
Suggestions?
Since it's an apartment, we don't want to put TOO much time, effort & money into it, yet we will be there for a year.

The kitchen cabinet doors are missing to the house we bought. I can't really afford to buy new doors....so what can I do that's modern & attractive? I've thought about baskets & maybe even some kind of "curtain" treatment. ANY advice would be greatly appreciated. I am SO SICK of being able to look right at the dishes, Tupperware, can goods, etc...

Years ago when I was a little kid my mother renovated out kitchen, terribly. She tried to stain the flat kitchen cabinets, but she had too much of a red stain. It looks terrible, but she had 3 kids running around and couldn't fix it. I need to know if there is any sort of tool that I can use to detail the cabinets, make them look more like this:

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The bottom cabinets, with the straight cuts. The curved cuts on the top cabinets are too hard. My dad will be doing the cutting and he doesn't exactly know what he's doing. Also, should I sand them before or after they're cut? I'm sanding them to re-stain them. Thanks!

We used zinsser 123 primer after cleaning & sanding. After 2 coats of primer we started sanding for paint (after 6 days), the primer wouldn't sand smooth & balled up. We took a couple of doors to the local SW store (where our neighbor works) & were told by him and 2 painters that were there that we should have used oil base primer that what we used wasn't sticking well so we needed to remove what was on there now. Is there an easy way to do this? We already have a zillion man hours put in on these cabinets I can't imagine starting over!

Somehow an unwelcomed visitor got into our small apartment-a baby possum! It is hiding behind the kitchen cabinets and the stove. I don't want to buy an animal trap that will never be used again. I am going to try & lure him outside with a trail of some kind of food. I just wanted to get some more ideas before I tried anything else. Thanks for any & all ideas.

I am going to Home Depot today to purchase stripper for my kitchen cabinets. Any recs on what to buy? Tips on how to use it? This will be my first time using it. I am assuming I need eye protection & a resperator, anything else?

I like the different stain options & opaque look of the exterior deck & fence stains. Is there any reason I should not apply them to my new kitchen cabinets

I'm in a manufactured home with that awful phony wood look cabinets. I don't want to take the time to sand & prime & paint, but really would like them white.
I was thinking about using some thin slats for a fence effect since I want to do a retro type theme.
Anyone have some great ideas?? Thanks