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Kitchen Antique Cabinets

If you are now planning to follow the antique kitchen decoration, than take care to pay suitable attention to the kitchen antique cabinets as well, as they form a central part of the overall decoration.

Kitchen Antique cabinets can be used to offer a distinctive appearance to your kitchen, thus setting it distant from all the other styles.

You can always go in some furniture store to buy kitchen antique cabinets but if you find them costly then you can use some of the methods to make your cabinets look antique and useful but never compromise with quality and

Staining is one of the popular methods to impart a look of kitchen antique cabinets.

Initially, you will have to clean the cabinet carefully so that no dust is present anymore.

Now, with the use of the sponge or brush, apply a light coating of the stain on cabinet. Start wiping the stain with the help of paper towel before it (stain) gets dry. Keep on wiping till the desired level of antiqueness is achieved.

Another known method to get kitchen antique cabinets’ look is distressing. This technique works only on dyed cabinets. In this method, a cabinet is made to appear as worn as it would be after hundred years from now.

It is done by sanding off those areas of the kitchen cabinet that are expected to get worn with use, like the handles and edges, till you a thin layer of wood starts appearing underneath.

You can distress the middle of kitchen cabinet also in the similar to make it look like kitchen antique cabinet. Faux painting and crackle painting some methods that can also be used to make your kitchen cabinets look antique.

The former requires one type of paint, while the later one requires two types of paints. Nevertheless, both these techniques are better left to be carried out by a professional.