We have a 1929 house, and we're trying to save money wherever we can. I personally like our cabinets, because they have that "panel" on the inside that actually creates a seal when the door is closed. When you close one cabinet real fast, the other one opens because there's such a good seal. Haven't been able to find cabinets like that on the market lately.
Anyway, I stripped and sanded and sanded and sanded one door to see what we had to work with, and the paint seems to be just completely seeped down into the grain itself (it's white)/
Does anyone have some kind of tips on how to address this? Anything that might "draw" the paint out, or some ways to re-finish that would mask this? Or should I just slap another (tenth or eleventh) coat on the top, and give up the idea that we could make them look like wood again?
Thanks for any input.