Nice job. I'm so tired of watching kitchen remodels where perfectly good cabinets end up in dumpsters. Obviously this was time-consuming, but the end result is beautiful. I'd like to see more of us revamping, rather than replacing. Thanks for the video.

My kitchen is out of date, but my plan is to just wait until this comes back in style.

The timing of this is perfect! Not quite ready to move from our home but getting there. As kitchens sell homes (almost always) this is a great solution for those with builder grade oak cabinets (me) that don't want to spend thousands (me again) on new cabinets just to leave them behind in the house. Very nice results! Thank you for posting!

Spray on auto primer/filler works great and dries really quick. Con: fills all gaps including the panel,rail/style joints. if you clen these as you go it works great.

I have been watching you since 2009, and I have always loved what you do and how you do it Mark, in this video you sound just like David Marks and Bob Ross... I can't think of a better compliment. That level of awsome is what every youtuber should strive for. Thank you Mark for sharing.

I’ve watched a lot of UKposts videos about painting kitchen cabinets, and I’m liking what I see with “Beyond Paint”. I haven’t seen a single thing that’s wrong with it, so that’s what I plan to use on my oak cabinets.

Thank you for telling and showing us the difference between pour fill and showing the grain. I personally like the grain showing through. Yes, definitely a lot of work for the flat finish and definitely worth the work if you are willing to put in that work!

Totally agree about only doing the job for someone you love. I did several projects for my daughters that people always say I should sell or do for pay. My response is “ I don’t love them enough to do that for the money they’d pay! “. Thanks for sharing the process Marc.

You've given me a lot of inspiration for different projects. I love your channel and I hope u never stop!!! The most recent piece I've made is a chair that is carved to look like the initials of me friend! Thank u so much Marc!❤️

Great job! They look beautiful. I love the two colors. You brought her kitchen into today from two decades ago!

This was the video I didn't even know I needed. I was searching for general painting tips for cabinets and stumbled upon this. After watching, I phoned a friend to see if the cabinets I was painting were oak (they were) and decided to take a few more days to do this the right way. I'm so glad I did. Thank you!

I love that you sprayed the doors. I see so often people absolutely terrified of hvlp sprayers, it was just so nice to see someone actually spray something for a change. They aren’t prohibitively expensive either, I threw a system together for well under a grand. Anyway, really nice work! The cabinets look fantastic!

As a woodworker this video broke my heart.....You did a great job and it looks incredible but I love natural wood finishes.

Professional painter here! Love the festool and GF products I use these often. On your next project of cabinets try out the GF stain blocking primer (2 coats) and then use 2 coats of satin “Cabinet Coat” from inselx.

40 years as a painting contractor I have probably painted somewhere close to a thousand cabinets. Never used any filler but I did use a an extremely high quality sealer primer with 2 coats, and 2 coats of finish paint.

My mom repaired and repainted her 25 year old pine cabinets and the kitchen looks amazing. It was a lot of work but she has real solid wood cabinets, she could never afford that nowadays. New hinges and pulls and the kitchen looks brand new! I just remember telling her, "I see how it is, all of us kids move out and now you paint the kitchen and make it look nice and new". It is almost like she has more money without having to feed three kids anymore ;)

You did a beautiful job! What a great updated look too! I’d love to paint my pecan cabinets white; they’re well made, but I don’t care for the natural wood look anymore. I don’t think I would ever tackle all that work though. Thanks for a very informative video.

Awesome job! I’m about ready to start on mine soon! Love to see all the tips and tricks to a beautiful durable finish!

Love it! Looks great. My keeps looking at videos that paint cabinets. They make it look easy. I work for a painter in my teens and this is a lot of work! If mom is happy that is all that matters!

I did the exact same thing to my oak cabinets...both top and bottom cabinets are the same color. I used the same paint as you plus added the crown molding. The one thing that elevated the entire look was adding door pulls and door knobs to complete the look!👌🤩

Thank you for showing the difference between filled and unfilled! I have about 10 doors to do, and I was wondering about the grain...Great demo! TY subbed

I'm in England, and my Kitchen Oak cabinets are about 150yrs old, which is pretty new considering the house is 773 yrs old. I wouldn't dream of painting them, even if they are out of date!

I just did this exact same thing to my house from that old school pine to a new update what a huge difference just some paint patience and a backsplash! Increased my home value just in updating it!

I loved the subtle comment about covering perfectly good wood with drywall. Not everyone has that same taste.

Looks great! I especially like the addition of the crown molding.

Watching you and the amount of effort you had to put in, multiplied by the amount of doors I have decided to exclude all my family and friends and my mother and wife.

When I built my condo in 2004 I thought I picked a cabinet color I would love forever but I'm starting to look at them and know I want them updated. Thanks for all the great information.

Looks great! Really like the two tone effect. Only thing I would do differently is add door and drawer pulls.

Oil based primers do wonders as a base coat to either oil based or latex enamel paint without the pore fill. Works great! I've never had grain show through with this method and I've never pore filled.

Huge thank you for showing the same finish filled and unfilled on oak. I've found plenty of comparable photos but never in the same finish.

Nice to see a good Australian product like Timber Mate getting used overseas! It’s a staple for woodworkers and tradesmen over here.

I did this last year to my oak kitchen. A helluva project but it exceeded my expectations. Used Spray Nine degreaser to clean, sanded between coats. Used two different primers- the doors closest to the stove ( greasiest) needed a very sticky primer ( Stix) and the other ones used a less sticky but more opaque primer. Each door got four coats- two primer and two top coats. I used Dulux and Stix primer and BM Advance in white-Pearl finish. The wood filler step is unnecessary- on mine, there’s very subtle grain coming through, but looks excellent. Using the right sheen is the most important step; Pearl is the right sheen.

I really like wood grain myself but this was a definite upgrade. I think the uniform Oak faces, even though they look warm, was kind of bland looking and the two tone really makes the kitchen pop and look clean and new. Nice work man. Also it's good to show Mom some love.

Those profile sanders are amazing. You get a better finish and much easier on the hands. I sanded a few hundred linear of feet of trim remodeling my kitchen (wanted to save the original woodwork) and they were a game changer.

You are a great teacher! Very patient with this tedious work, & very articulate. Thank you! Also, love to see sons spoiling their mamas with beautiful handyman work like this!

Great tips... exactly what I was looking to do with my "vintage" 1970s cabinets. I personally do not mind the grain lines... they add some texture.

Open floor plan, painted cabinets, gray paint, waterfall countertops, mid-century modern. All this will be in style forever, like these bell bottoms.

Looks great! I love painted cabinets; is another opportunity to add a personal touch. Because the space between the top of the cabinets (topers) and the ceiling is considerable, I would have added a raiser (?) of about 6”, then the crown molding. Great tutorial!

It looks modern and beautiful! So much better than before.

I love painted cabinets! Looks great!

This guy just made me change my mind! The hell with all that work

I just discovered your channel! I’m impressed with your work/results. I’m VERY impressed with your presentation of the technique. You are a great teacher and I’m excited to get my project started! Thank you.

Wow, great transformation. It looks like a professional job! Great job! I didn't know this about oak at first. Thanks for sharing!

Tip: Use a fine finish foam roller on the cabinets in the kitchen. You won't get any brush strokes, and it takes less time.

Cool video, thanks. I fill open grain by wet sanding with water based poly, sprinkling previously gathered sanding dust as I go (inspired by old timers doing it with oil). I keep the poly in a large plastic syringe and squeeze it out as needed, sometimes spraying with a water bottle*. I push the paste formed into the grain with the paper and then level it with a knife (if flat). It even looks great under a clear coat and fills smaller imperfections. I just refinished our 30 year old oak stair treads and they now mirror reflect, one of my pandemic projects. edit:* if paste gets too dry and thick

The end product looks beautiful just like factory finish ❤️❤️

Your mom is lucky to have you do that for her! I need mine done desperately! They look really nice.

20 years down the road somebody will be removing that paint, the home improvement GAME is alive and well

The end product looks very nice. Yep, I'm one that would never paint over oak cabinets. Personally, I like the natural look of the wood grains with a nice stained finish.

Real nice cabinets at mom’s condo. Love the result color choices. Great!!

Omg I have sooo many cabinets in my new home that look just like this and I was thinking the paint job would be easy, but it’s more than I thought now that I’ve watched this video. Looks great though! And worth the time

In my family we’ve had success with primer that’s made specifically to conceal knots and wood grain. The wood has generally been pine (still a ring-porous wood, but much softer than oak), and using the right primer made a huge difference. For anyone in Norway reading this: se etter kvist- og sperregrunning; bare sperregrunning dekker ikke kvist og årringer.

Wow, a sprayer I guess is the way to go huh? Those look amazing

THAT is a labor of love and I don't have enough of it to do a whole kitchen. Maybe a vanity.

That paint is AWESOME. I buy unfinished wood products and after sanding, I paint and use the satin finish. It is an absolutely beautiful product in the end.

Make people's life happier is all that matter. Congratulations, I am sure your mom is proud of you!

Kitchen looks great. My husband cut down a walnut tree and had it cut into lumber and planed and sanded until smooth. They were the first cabinets he ever built. All I put on them was polyurethane and the color is lovely. Every time I look at new cabinets I compare them to my solid wood and after 25 years mine still look new. I'll keep them. Oh and the tree was about 100 years old and we got a lot of cabinets from it.

Oak Cabinets are never outdated!

We just did this to our kitchen. We did buy new doors. We felt it was really wasteful just to throw boxes away to buy new boxes no one would ever really see. Saved some money too. Great Video!!! Appreciate the tips!

Thank you for this video. We're house hunting in Missouri/Kansas there's an inordinate amount of homes with these outdated oak cabinets that have such an ugly coloring to them. Once we buy, we'll most likely have to redo the cabinets.

The original wood looked beautiful. The new painted doors look great as well. I personally would have stayed with the original doors.

I am in the process of resurfacing all of my kitchen cabinets as well. I've already done the bathroom and it actually wasn't too bad but there are a lot more cabinets in the kitchen! The house was built in the 60's so if you can imagine, I've got my work cut out for me. I've decided to sand everything down to the bare wood and buy all new and updated hardware for the handles and hinges. Wish me luck!

Great job! Informative video. Working on my own kitchen even as I type. I am replacing the doors. The face frames are being sanded and primed with Zinssers shellac based primer. Then lightly sanded and topcoated with Sherwin Williams Emerald urethane enamel. (Satin). Key is to use top quality tools and techniques. So far this has taken about 4 long days and have not gotten the doors as of yet. Thanks for the video...looks professional.

Some nice Modern chrome pulls for for the doors and drawers would have been a nice finishing touch.

I think you did a great job and the door looks good. I work for a professional cabinet refinishing company. We do our fare share of oak cabinets. Each two man crew does at least one kitchen a week. We have a much different paint that you can’t buy in a store and it’s water based and sprayed on the doors and the the drawer fronts in our shop with an hvlp sprayer. We use bin primer and roll it on with foam roller and that’s how we fill the grain it works and it dries fast then we can burnish it and put the color coats on. Then we put on a uv top coat and cure it with uv light. It comes out just as durable as the prefinished hardwood flooring you buy from Armstrong. The problem I see most people do is they just don’t prep the wood properly and they try and rush it and then it looks like they painted it with a brush. The products that they sell at the big box stores like rustolium cabinet refinishing kits are garbage.

I have to say I'm not a fan of painted kitchens but that looks really really nice. Very nice combination of colors, and, as I always see from you, top-notch work. Thanks for sharing!

General Stain products are awesome. Nice job on the cabinets . For those naysayers General Stain does a line of gel stains that is amazing. Turns those builder grade cabinets into truly beautiful rich finish that enhances that transforms those tired out of date cabinets. And no it doesn't peel or fade.

I repainted my oak builder grade cabinets and they look great still 4 years later And everyone said don’t paint cabinets. Home Depot “pros” (Crooks) wanted 40k to just replace the doors and put in granite. I had to superglue all the floating center boards as the grain filling and paint would fracture all along the edges. I sprayed Sherwin Williams pro classic door and trim paint after priming well and it ended up perfect.

Steel wool works good for the between coats sanding, particularly on the contours.

Great video, sure is a lot of work. Shellac mixed with a little talc makes a great grain filler, sands like a dream, drys super quick and can be quickly brushed.

Beautiful job, 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 and yes, a ton of work. Even the older style tile and countertops looked updated afterwards.

looks great!! but man, that is a lot of work.

I was wondering how much grain filler you ended up using for the whole project? I am prepping to start my kitchen project and just trying to get ready.

Well, I agree with your mom on this one. While I like how good wood looks with a clear finish, these pores would drive me crazy too. It helps that the end result looks great.

Looks great, love the two tone colors. really pops with the tile back splash.

I've repainted my builder grade cabinets and even without grain fill, it took easily over 50-60 hours of work to do. 1 coat of primer and 2 coats of paint

That stuff reminds me of ‘bondo’ body filter for cars. Build it up, sand it down, then you can finish. Personally I like the wood look but it is good to know

Simply beautiful! Great job 👍🏼

Wow I bet you have a very happy mom. Truly elevates the sophistication of her kitchen. ♡gorgeous♡

"Never half-ass two things, whole ass one thing" - Ron Swanson

I think it's almost criminal to paint beautiful natural oak.

I'll never understand folks that want to paint over a nice looking wood. But to each their own I guess.

We just installed brand new North American Cherry cabinets in our kitchen and they look amazing. They also look strikingly similar to these. Can’t beat the look of natural wood.

That is one long ass way to do a job that isn't 'absolute perfection'. I'm a pro decorator of 20+ yrs & man i'd be out of business if i went about it that way! My advice? Clean with Methylated Spirit, give a LIGHT sand by hand & use a Shellac based primer (no 'mechanical grip' needed, this shit STICKS!!) then fill anything that needs filling, spot prime & then coat up with chosen paints. Hope i saved you a LOT of time folks!

You are such a good son! ♥️

Excellent video! Clear, informative, and organized.

man, what an insanely great idea. i don't like the old front of the kitchen anymore and i'll repaint it. i would never have thought of that idea!

You should do some ASMR grain filling videos haha!

Lol 😂 I love how many times you let people know that they can do whatever they want with their cabinets. You tell em man

Excellent video. Thanks for posting this. This is a great option, especially if your old oak cabinets are in decent shape but you're tired of the dated look. I love the darker lower cabinets against the light upper cabinets, and the tip for the crown molding was great!

This is great and has perfect timing. I will be helping my daughter do exactly this shortly. I was not familiar with using the filler like that. Thank you for the tips.

I love my natural oak wood cabinets...natural wood is stunningly beautiful. Oaks trees died for my cabinet...at least i can honor them and thank them and show their real beauty

I’m following this tutorial. I think you did an amazing job! My question is did you pre-sand the cabinets before wood filling? Thanks.

Great video, and I like the process you used! The problem with a lot of the sprayable or "high build" products are that they just look so thick on the panel.

Thank you for this video! Easy, clear ( great microphone) and pace was great too!

Heavy Bob Ross vibes in the pore filling section.

I own a painting company and have painted hundreds of sets of cabinets. The amount of time filling in pores in oak will not give you the cost/benefit to make it worth your while, unless you just absolutely can't live with it. But, if you hire a professional painter, expect that to double the cost. And never paint cabinets without using a good primer rated for the task. We prefer to stay away from oil-based products so we use Seal Grip water-based primer, allowing to dry 24 hours. Then we topcoat with PPG Breakthrough at least 2 coats. Breakthrough is virtually bulletproof, but difficult to work with unless you have professional spray equipment. Brushing/rolling is not an option. But, unless you like brushstrokes or roller stipple on your cabinets, I wouldn't recommend that anyway. You can buy a decent HVLP through Lowe's or HD that will get the job done if set correctly. Edit: I will recommend that customers can paint their trim/doors/windows and maybe small vanities in baths, but I never recommend they tackle kitchen cabs. Usually by the time they get through the prime coat they will realize the amount of work to be done and start skimping or skipping steps altogether. Have a pro painter do it and get recommendations/referrals. It's a process that takes a pro about 5 days to finish correctly. A homeowner or DIY can take upwards of month. And nobody wants their kitchen unusable for a that amount of time.

Very nice instructional 😊 I wish I had this video when I did my kitchen cabinets with timbermate last year..

I don't love painted cabinets but those colors are great! Darker on the lower cabinets and lighter on the tops works well and will hopefully help keep them looking clean for a long time.

Five years from now: "Removing Paint From Those Beautiful Oak Cabinets"