Rust-Oleum Cabinet Transformations, 258109 Small Kit, WINTER FOG

I have painted EVERY cabinet piece in my new house. 2 bathroom vanities and kitchen. I used 3 different brands of paint for all. Valspar, Nuvo, & lastly the Rust-Oleum for my kithcen. #1 on my list WAS the Nuvo, until I did my kitchen. This kit is amazing. I bought it from my local hardware store because I wanted to get started immediatly. My cabinets were a smooth glossy wood (?), made the kitchen look VERY dark. I took each cabinet off and was able to wash them in my bathtub with dish soap and a sponge. I used acetone for the harder to get off grease stains, after scrubbing them with dish soap. Let them dry, then used the deglosser provided in the kit. The ONLY issue with using this kit with my cabinets is it will show brush marks. But, if you do it right it will all blend in wonderfully. I got the cans tinted pure white and used the glazing to create the effect. The harder you rub the more it comes off. Always PREP PREP PREP! I can go on and on, on how to apply and etc, but the pictures should speak for themselves.

Being a perfectionist and having the luxury of time, I first experimented with two wide boards (priming them before starting with the Rustoleum products.PAINT:I liked Rustoleum's paint. It's thinner than shelf brands, I'm guessing so to show wood grain better. Two to thee coats of paint needed. Box says that store must tint for the light color you want, that even applies to "pure white!" Home Depot did mine. As I ran low on paint, I found no way (online or otherwise) to purchase more of Rustoeum's bond coat paint. Not wanting to pay $75 for an entire second kit, I bought some Glidden, and had Home Depot color match it. That worked fine. (Except the shelf paint was much thicker and took longer to dry.GLAZE, pt. 1:I liked Rustoleum's picture of pure white with glaze. The picture shed a "warm" white look with grain. UNFORTUNATELY the color did NOT come out like the picture at all, no matter the various glazing techniques I tried. If I wiped most of the glaze off in hopes of it simply accenting my wood grain, I got a crummy-dirty looking white board. With more glaze left on, and wiping for faux wood grain effects, I got nice wood texture effects, but a very tan-teac color with a slight aura of green when put near warm white walls; all semblance of white was gone. I did eight iterations, at various glaze strengths and all had the full tan to brown (with green tinge) color. No wonder so many people skip the glaze phase.GLAZE, pt. 2:I never wanted plain white cabinets; I wanted warm white with some sort of whiteish--maybe slightly grayish, if need be--faux texture. After Googling and surfing, I ran across a product by Valspar: TINTABLE GLAZE! --Sold at Lowes. Since Rustoleum's very dark cocoa brown glaze in the kit gave me a tan (to brown) board, I had Lowes tint Valspar's glaze to a medium light gray of the brown side. That did the trick! When smeared on with the brush and dragged with the cheese cloth on the "pure" white painted board, I got a nice light grain effect, warming up the white slightly. I couldn't be happier.TOP COAT:Since my project is big, and I am doing the inside of all my top cabinets and shelves, I have not got to top coat yet. But all research says to go very fine, high quality synthetic brush, go THIN on the coat, and repeat. And if necessary, repeat again. One girl on YouTube does a great job doing the top coat with a foam brush very super thin, multiple coats. Though time-consuming, I don't expect to have poor results. Yet others have reported crummy varnish results with one-coat brushing. I think it's the brush and quantity of varnish they're using. I will experiment to get the best result.All this tells me, I don't need Rusoleum's kit. To get my project how I wanted it, I bought shelf paint, tinted to a pure white. I bought Valspar's tintable glaze and chose a much lighter tint. De-glosser, cheese cloth (for dragging glaze), and top coats are for sale in Lowes. But, I really thought Rustoleum's paint was much better suited for the task.If you don't want your cabinets torn apart for long, as you figure out what you like and how to do it, get a couple 2 ft.wide boards, prime them, and have at them with paint and glaze. When you find what you like and how to do it on these boards, THEN tear apart your kitchen and have at it.

I ordered "Winter Fog" when the product arrived it was not tinted to the color Winter Fog.

Product is Great! But if you want anything other than white with the light kit, you will need to have the top coat tinted. They do not tell you that anywhere. They say it is tintable but they should not sell the light kit without your knowing that BEFORE you leave the store.

Love love love. Redid cabinets in kitchen and 3 bathrooms. Hard work but totally worth it. Saves 1,000s. Did kitchen 3 years ago, still looks great

Unfortunately we did not get to use ours. First off the box was sealed with tape. Like it had been opened, the original clear circle sticker had been cut and than sealed again with a piece of tape. Upon opening it we found that the can may have been opened or not sealed properly and spilt in the box somehow. Definitely old as the paint had dried up and had hardened. Disappointed we did not get to use it and that this box was definitely not new but I ended up with it.

A lot of work, but worked great. Just follow the instructions. They are on everything, even the cans. It took a lot less that I thought it would. Only one quart and I still have some left. I did the outside only.

Surprised on how much we liked the end product. Our cabinets have been repurposed and look phenomenal!