Have you painted your kitchen cabinets?

Mama-Bear

We have terrible builder grade oak.  I've hated them since we moved in but we didn't get to pick out the details of our home (long story short a couple bought/built it, before it was finished they split and neither wanted/could keep it themselves).  I'd like to paint them and have seen dozens of tutorials, but I'm curious how well they hold up after 6m, 1 year, 5 years, etc.

sunflwr2

I painted our builder grade cabinets a few years ago. They were a light wood color and I painted them white. We used gripper primer and it was awesome!!! I swear that stuff makes paint stick to anything!!! Then two coats of white paint. They still look great!!!

Mama-Bear

Thanks.   I'm not ready to tackle this project just yet, probably in a year or so (hoping).  We're going to price the cabinets I want and then set the money aside (that way if they turn out terrible we'll have the funds to replace).  We redid our kitchen at our previous home and I loved the cabinets, they were a honey maple color, I wish I could've brought them with us, they're no longer available (they were DIY HD or Lowes cabinets).