{"id":2985,"date":"2016-07-06T09:28:01","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T06:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistadinlemn.ro\/?p=2985"},"modified":"2024-03-03T11:05:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T09:05:03","slug":"my-antique-mdf-kitchen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistadinlemn.ro\/en\/2016\/07\/06\/bucataria-mea-antichizata-din-mdf\/","title":{"rendered":"My antique MDF kitchen"},"content":{"rendered":"

I thought I'd tell you today about my kitchen. It's not new, it's already more than 8 years old, but because I did the finishing myself, in a factory I was working with at the time, I want to share my experience with you. Unfortunately I don't have any photos of the finishing because I didn't think I would make my kitchen a star on the net \u263a. But you can see what it looks like now.<\/p>\n

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Combination of chipboard and painted and antiqued chipboard<\/h5>\n

As I was saying, years ago I made my kitchen furniture. Although I've always loved wood, at that time, for economic reasons, I chose to make the doors (fronts) in MDF<\/a>and the casing is made of chipboard. I live in an old house and the kitchen space is a bit of an odd shape. That's why I called an architect friend of mine to design the kitchen furniture so that I can make the most of the space.<\/p>\n

With the project in hand, I went to a company I had worked with on other projects and asked them to do my kitchen, but not to finish the doors, because I want to do that myself. Let me know only when the doors are done. After some time they told me that they had sorted out the doors and in order to finalize the kitchen as soon as possible, I should take care of finishing them.<\/p>\n

I picked them up and took them to a factory to which I supplied the finishing materials and which made bathroom and kitchen furniture from MDF. The people were very nice and said they would make them for me, but I asked them to let me make them. They didn't mind and told the people at the station to help me if they needed to.<\/p>\n

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Stages of finishing MDF fronts<\/h5>\n

We started by sanding all the milled areas well, including the edges. After sanding and sanding, I applied a coat of polyurethane sealer. Using the insulator is very useful when finishing MDF because it reduces primer absorption in the milled areas and locks in any tannins or dyes in the MDF board that can affect the finish.<\/p>\n

After the insulator we applied ud on ud<\/em>At 45-50 minute intervals, the colored polyurethane primer. If I let the insulator dry completely, it was mandatory to sand it before applying the primer, in order to avoid adhesion problems. The primer was cream, in tone with the tiles, a color that I made from transparent base and pigment pastes.<\/p>\n

I allowed the primer to dry overnight, and the next morning I sanded well between coats with 320 sandpaper. Immediately after sanding I applied, all over, the red walnut patina. This is where I made a mistake and had to work harder. But as the saying goes, man learns from his mistakes.<\/p>\n

Sanding, I removed the hard topcoat and got to the area where the reaction was not finished and the primer was softer. The patina that was applied right away had a very tight grip on the substrate and I had to put a lot more effort to remove it. I remember sanding the patina on each door by myself and the ladies there came over and asked if I didn't want their help. I begged them to let me do it all myself, telling them that if I didn't like the result I would know it was all my fault.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, in the end the doors turned out as I wanted. The patina gave the doors an aged look and emphasized the milling. In addition, I learned that to more easily remove the patina from the polyurethane primer, the surface should not be sanded beforehand. It was fine to sand in the evening and apply the patina in the morning. Sanding the patina over the entire surface of the doors also created the roughness needed for the next coat to adhere.<\/p>\n

At the end we applied a coat of transparent polyurethane varnish with gloss level 30.<\/p>\n

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Everything turned out very well and I was very happy with the result. I still am, even if I wish the furniture was wood. Interestingly, everyone who walked into my kitchen actually thought it was wood under that finish. What do you think? Don't patronize me, I take criticism pretty well. \u263a<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

M-am g\u00e2ndit s\u0103 v\u0103 povestesc ast\u0103zi despre buc\u0103t\u0103ria mea. Nu este nou\u0103, are deja mai bine de 8 ani, dar pentru c\u0103 finisajul l-am f\u0103cut singur\u0103, \u00eentr-o fabric\u0103 cu care colaboram la acea vreme, vreau s\u0103 v\u0103 \u00eemp\u0103rt\u0103\u0219esc din experien\u021ba mea. Din p\u0103cate nu am fotografii din timpul finis\u0103rii pentru c\u0103 nu m\u0103 g\u00e2ndeam c\u0103 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2135],"tags":[623,622],"class_list":["post-2985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobilier","tag-finisare-antichizata-mdf","tag-finisare-mdf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistadinlemn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistadinlemn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistadinlemn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistadinlemn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistadinlemn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2985"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/revistadinlemn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37827,"href":"https:\/\/revistadinlemn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2985\/revisions\/37827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistadinlemn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistadinlemn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistadinlemn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistadinlemn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}