KITCHEN CABINET COMPANYAdding a decorative glaze over your stained or painted kitchen cabinets is a beautiful addition. It adds depth to your cabinets and makes them into unique cabinets from any other home. Decorative glaze can be done in many ways but we offer two specific ways which we will explain below. Glazing your cabinets is not that popular because a lot of companies don't offer this feature especially inexperienced painters. That being said, by adding this feature you might be the only one in the neighborhood with it, and that will separate your home from the rest. This one addition will makes your cabinets look completely different from the standard kitchen look. It is not classic or modern look, this is a timeless feature. 
SHOULD YOU GLAZE YOUR CABINETS? Many people fear that they wont like how glaze will look after its applied. Some people think it looks dirty and not clean or smooth. While we respect these opinion, glazing is definitely not for everyone. Before glazing, you are advised to look at previous kitchens that have been glazed before and with a similar color to what you're choosing from. In most cases, glazing stained cabinets looks absolutely fine. Both stain and glaze can go hand in hand and look beautiful with or without the glaze. Glaze just adds darker tones to the edges and really magnify's the grooves and details of the cabinets. Where people have trouble deciding is glazing painted cabinets, because it a solid color. Our personal take on this is glazing a darker color. Typically dark colored islands or the bottom portion of your cabinetry looks really nice glazed. The reason we go with a darker color is because the glaze will be more of a subtle effect than a large contrasting effect. But this is all personal preference and looking at some photos definitely helps. Let us help you! GIVE US A CALL AND WE WILL GIVE YOU A PRICE APPROXIMATION OVER THE PHONE ON YOUR CABINETS.
CLICKABLE ON MOBILE ^ TYPES OF CABINET GLAZING OPTIONS WE OFFER. We offer the two most popular. Pinstripe glazing and antique glazing. Pinstripe glazing in simple terms is like adding a dark border to all of the grooves, details and edges to your cabinets. In most cases you will decide where you want the lines and where you don't. This method leaves the flat surfaces of the cabinets untouched, and not altering the color in any way. BUT pin stripe glazing although it doesn't alter the color on the flat surfaces, it still make the cabinet look a little darker because it is magnifying its edges. So if two white doors are compared side by side, one being pinstriped glaze and the other solid color. The pin stripe will appear a little darker than the solid one. There is one disclaimer in pin striping cabinets and that is that not all the lines are going to be straight. You will have some areas that the line gets thicker and thinner, edges where the paint meets will have a larger border of glaze with light wipe marks, but this is all normal. That's what the style is all about and there is no way around it. 
Antique glazing your cabinets is the process of glazing the entire surface of the cabinets and then wiping it off, leaving a stained cabinet door that magnifys all the edges and flat surfaces of the cabinets. This gives it the antique look and adds a lot of depth throughout your entire cabinet door. This feature will darken your cabinets, and reveal all the details that your cabinet may not be showing with just a solid color. This gives your cabinets their own personality and adds a different style to your cabinetry. If you want a different color island, we recommend antiquing it as well. It will really add contrast. 
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OVERVIEW OF HOW TO GLAZE CABINETS.
Glazing cabinets is a hands on method. You have to go through this process by hand. You first apply it and then remove it. Even pin stripe glazing requires removal of some areas where the lines arent that straight, but glazing is not meant to be perfect, its an addition that has uneven edges, uneven dark spots, and thats why people like it so much. Instead of having a solid color that looks the same thrioiughout, this feature adds differences throughout, while still maintaining a similar look. WE highly recommend looking at glazed kitchen cabinets for you to decide if cabinet glazing fits your style.
Glazing cabinets is a hands on method. You have to go through this process by hand. You first apply it and then remove it. Even pin stripe glazing requires removal of some areas where the lines arent that straight, but glazing is not meant to be perfect, its an addition that has uneven edges, uneven dark spots, and thats why people like it so much. Instead of having a solid color that looks the same thrioiughout, this feature adds differences throughout, while still maintaining a similar look. WE highly recommend looking at glazed kitchen cabinets for you to decide if cabinet glazing fits your style.
OUR 3 STEPS TO CABINET GLAZING
STEP 1: THE FIRST STEP IN OUR CABINET GLAZING PROCESS IS TO THOROUGHLY CLEAN YOUR CABINETS. WE FIRST NEED TO REMOVE ANY OILS, OR STAINS THAT MAY BE HIDING IN BETWEEN YOUR CABINETS. THIS STEP IS SKIPPED IF WE ARE PAINTING OR STAINING YOUR CABINETS BECAUSE IT WOULD HAVE BEEN CLEANED PRIOR TO THIS STEP.
STEP 2: NEXT STEP IS GLAZING OR ANTIQUING YOUR CABINETS HANDS ON. WE LET THE CABINET GLAZE CURE AND DOUBLE CHECK WITH YOU IF EVERYTHING LOOKS GOOD UP TILL THIS POINT. MAKING SURE THE AMOUNT OF GLAZE THAT WAS PUT IN THE AREAS REQUESTED IS OKAY WITH YOU MOVING FORWARD.
STEP 3: AFTER THE GLAZE HAS CURED WE NEED TO PROTECT IT WITH OUR CLEAR COAT. AND THAT IS IT! 3 SIMPLE STEPS, BUT ITS A HANDS ON METHOD SO TIME IS VALUABLE.
STEP 2: NEXT STEP IS GLAZING OR ANTIQUING YOUR CABINETS HANDS ON. WE LET THE CABINET GLAZE CURE AND DOUBLE CHECK WITH YOU IF EVERYTHING LOOKS GOOD UP TILL THIS POINT. MAKING SURE THE AMOUNT OF GLAZE THAT WAS PUT IN THE AREAS REQUESTED IS OKAY WITH YOU MOVING FORWARD.
STEP 3: AFTER THE GLAZE HAS CURED WE NEED TO PROTECT IT WITH OUR CLEAR COAT. AND THAT IS IT! 3 SIMPLE STEPS, BUT ITS A HANDS ON METHOD SO TIME IS VALUABLE.