How do you strip white paint from wood cabinets?

We are buying a home and someone painted the wood cabinets white. We were going to just buy new ones but if anyone has priced them, well then you know they are between 5-10,000 at Home Depot and other fine department stores. I think I could strip them and stain them if I knew exactly how to strip the white paint off. Any answers would be greatly appreciated!!How do you strip white paint from wood cabinets?
My first suggestion is to check the home imp stores for discontinued cabinets. They change out displays from time to time and CLEARANCE the old displays.





Now, to remove the paint. Test to see if they are painted with latex or oil. If they are really old it probably is oil, especially if they are real shiny. Dip a cotton ball in some alcohol, paint thinner, whatever you have. If the cotton balls ad-hears to the paint then you know it is oil; otherwise it is latex. There are various paint strippers on the market (strypeze) however you need lots of ventilation. You could also use a palm sander and sand then. Let the sander do most of the work, don't press too hard. Once you get all the paint off, was the cabinets with warm to hot water. You need to be careful of using any detergent in the water, as this could react to your final finish. If you find, after removing the paint that they have nice wood grain, then I would suggest a semi trsp stain. If the grain isn't very good then a) paint again, B) antique or C) use a solid stain. The solid stain is normally an exterior product, which would be more durable, but requires ventilation. Min wax make a solid , wiping stain for interior. The wiping stain gives you more time to achieve you final color. It doesn't penetrate as quickly. Then as a finish coat, I would maybe suggest a spar varnish; it is water proof and would be more durable for wiping off the cabinets. Hope this helps. BE SURE TO LET THE CABINETS THOROUGHLY DRY AFTER WASHING ALL THE RESIDUE OFF.How do you strip white paint from wood cabinets?
If you want to use a stripper and you also don't want anything really aggressive and toxic, 3M Safest Stripper is a good choice. While it takes longer to melt the coating, it is very low odor. I agree with the previous answer of using a heat gun. This will remove old latex paint faster than anything else.
either sand it off





or





paint stripper


they have some that you brush on and it's real thick so it doesnt make the paint run off on to other things


you take a putty knife ans peel the paint off of course you have the curly stuff to pick up





or you could look in a paper (like we have a traders guide)


its used or new stuff people are selling


a few weeks ago the was 1 wall unit new for 350.00 there were others in there too just not new





hope this helps
you could get paint remover but its very messy and usually toxic


I prefer to use a heat gun its a little cleaner because it comes off dry it does not take long to get the hang of it either. you'll need a putty knife maybe a wide one for large areas and a thin one for small intricate areas.Don't use too close or you'll burn it just let it bubble up and start pushing it off with Putty knife .The results are great with out much effort.
Strip Ease makes a premuim paint remover