After a lot of research, I painted my kitchen cabinets. They look beautiful, but the paint is not hard like I would expect- it’s tacky and sticks to things and scratches off easily.I used Sherwin Williams Emerald trim enamel. This product was recommended for this kind of project by SW’s website, several people on Reddit, and about a million diy blogs. It’s supposed to be the best of the best for painting kitchen cabinets.For primer we used Kilz Max, which is latex-based. It was recommended by a few people and the guys at SW assured us the paint works with latex primers. We were painting unfinished wood so we figured we just needed a good stain blocker. This primer has worked very well on the wood trim throughout our house.We followed the recommended dry times between coats (4 hours). Because it was a little cooler (mid 60s) in our house we actually waited 24 hours between coats for most parts of the project. We used Purdy clear cut brushes and high density foam rollers for application, and sanded with 220 grit sand paper between coats. The application looks great.I am really upset about the way these turned out. The paint scrapes off at the slightest effort. If I close the cabinets, they stick to themselves and pull bits of paint off. It’s terrible. I don’t understand how this happened. I’ve read the paint can half a dozen times now making sure they didn’t give us the wrong thing somehow. I feel like even cheap wall paint would have been better than this $90 product.Any recommendations for what I can do to fix it? Is there a top coat or something I could put on to make them hard and durable? Maybe they’ll harden over time? Did I fuck up somewhere? I just don’t get it.Thanks for your help.Tl;dr: painted unfinished wood cabinets with Sherwin Williams emerald trim enamel and Kilz max primer (latex), and now they are sticky and the paint scratches off easily. Anything I can do to fix it? via /r/DIY http://ift.tt/2EUKEKI
