{"id":1295,"date":"2018-03-02T13:28:20","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T21:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/?p=1295"},"modified":"2018-03-01T19:17:49","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T03:17:49","slug":"cabinet-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/02\/cabinet-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabinet painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When painting cabinets, it seems we have two choices, factory painting, or painting in place. Both have their pros and cons.<\/p>\n<p>With factory painting, the painting is done in a painting booth under controller conditions, and the results are consistently good.\u00a0 But, cabinets almost always get damaged on installation, especially with a big complicated install such as ours.<\/p>\n<p>With painting in place, it is much harder to control the quality of the finish, as the environment is dusty, there are lots of other trades that are in and out and all about, and the nasty smell of lacquer paint makes it impossible for others to work when painting is occurring.\u00a0 But the finish goes on at a time when it is much less likely to get damaged.\u00a0 They do typically take off the doors and drawer fronts and take them back to the shop for painting, so at least those get done in a much better environment.<\/p>\n<p>In our case, we are painting in place.\u00a0 Here are some results from the dining room, pantry and kitchen, which are almost done.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1296\" src=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_9173-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"973\" srcset=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_9173-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_9173-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1297\" src=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_9175-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"973\" srcset=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_9175-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_9175-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1298\" src=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_9176-1280x960.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_9176-1280x960.jpg 1280w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_9176-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_9176-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1299\" src=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_9174-1280x960.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_9174-1280x960.jpg 1280w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_9174-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_9174-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The cabinet painters have been on the job for just over two weeks.\u00a0 They probably have at least another three weeks to go as there are additional cabinets in the basement, the master bath, closet and bedroom built-ins, the two upstairs offices, and two bathrooms yet to be done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When painting cabinets, it seems we have two choices, factory painting, or painting in place. Both have their pros and cons. With factory painting, the painting is done in a painting booth under controller conditions, and the results are consistently good.\u00a0 But, cabinets almost always get damaged on installation, especially with a big complicated install<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/02\/cabinet-painting\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Read more about Cabinet painting<\/span>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cabinets-mill-work"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1300,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions\/1300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}