I am currently in the process of prepping my 1940's kitchen cabinets to re-paint (i can't afford new one's), I have found that the previous owner of our house painted latex over oil...shame shame. The latex on the outside of the cabinets is coming off easily with a razor blade in literal "sheets". However, the inside of the cabinets the paint is not coming off as easily. I took a palm sander to the inside of the door & the paint is "balling" up. I'm not real sure if the inside is latex, and or why the paint is acting this way. I am not stripping off the original oil paint, just going to sand, and put on a good primer to re-paint. I want to do this right the first time. I'm tired of all the kitchen items being in my living room, and don't want to have to do this again next year, cause I didn't do it right the first time. (FYI I did totally strip one door face down, to see what the original cabinets looked like without paint, they are good solid cabinets, just not pretty to stain & poly). Any suggestions would be welcomed. Thanks for your thoughts.

Hi fellow DIY'ers. A couple of newbie's here with some painful problems... My fiance and I spent the past week ever night after work painting the existing cabinets, cabinet doors & spray painting the hinges in our kitchen. After enduring waking up the following mornings exhausted and still covered in paint in our hair & under our nails, we were ready & looking forward to moving on to painting the walls of the kitchen this weekend. While I was removing the masking around the cabinets last night after applying the third coat of KILLZ, we realized we'd been painting with not your oridinary KILLZ primer, but a latex high-gloss that started peeling off immediately like a thin film upon removing the masking surrounding the cabinets. :wall: (X10) My question now is (after reading the label on the paint just a tad too late), should we go back now and reapply essentially a forth coat of primer followed by another coat of this latex or should we just give it another coat of latex, waiting until bits and pieces start to peel. Reason I ask is I don't know now if the primer itself will even adhere to the latex anymore & I wonder if our efforts so far have been a bust. Perhaps we should strip the latex competely, rough-up the base and refinish the right way, using the primer 1st & latex 2nd. Fact is BTW, the folks at the hardware store who sold us the paint pointed out it was the product for us: "see here, the label says it's ideal for cabinets". Doh! We at least sufficiently clean the surfaces prior. Any suggestions? Jason [I]postart[/I]