kryrinn wrote:
If you paint over the crackled paint as it is now.. it's just going to continue falling off, bringing all your new paint with it. It'll take more elbow grease, but it'll last at least 10-15 years if done correctly, and you'll be redoing it again (at $30/gal for paint) in a year if you paint over those.

Maybe a mustard yellow color for the cabinets, and green walls? Or a light cream or grey color I've seen work, depending on the light in your kitchen already.
This.  The peeling paint will all pull away and fall off later, taking the new paint with it.  You'll wind up with exactly the look you have now, just with a different color, and the crackle effect won't make it look any more intentional with the uneven pattern it's peeling in.  Stripping it IS hard work, but painting it, then stripping it and re-painting it is a lot more hard work and a hell of a lot more money. 

Now what you COULD do is use a scraper to take off all of the loose areas of peeling paint, and then scrape the other cabinets too, so that the rough areas are evenly spread over the entire area.  Make sure all loose, peeling, and bubbling paint is removed.  Then clean the cabinets very well (don't be afraid to scrub, you need to make sure all loose paint has been removed), use an opaque primer, and then do your crackle paint over the whole thing.  There will still be areas of uneven texture showing through the top coating of paint, but with the crackle effect it may look more like an intentional distress instead of old cabinets that need to be re-painted. 

ETA:  Also make sure you sand the whole shebang lightly before priming and painting, or the new paint may eventually start to separate from the previous layers and peel, and you'll wind up at square one again.




roro wrote:

LET IT GO, LET IT GOOOO, be one with the wind and sky or whatever the fuck
Last Edited By: thedens May 20 11 4:35 PM. Edited 2 times.