F&B eggshell on kitchen cabinets

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I’m planning on painting my wooden kitchen cabinets. F&B primer than F&B eggshell. I’ve used F&B eggshell on smaller pieces of furniture eg chairs, small tables, sideboard, front door etc with no problems but this is a bigger job.

Will F&B eggshell stand up to everyday kitchen use or should I be looking at an alternative? I love F&B paint but won’t use it to the detriment of the final finish if I can colour match

I appreciate this may have been done to death but can’t find definitive answer in chat search

My parents have little greene eggshell and it seems to have lasted.

I just painted my cabinets in F&B modern eggshell, can’t comment on the durability yet but the finish nearly drove me to insanity! It was so hard to work with. Painting with a brush left horrible stripes, but using a mini roller left lines when I lifted the roller from the surface. Tried watering it down, made no difference. I am a
patient woman and was happy to put the time in doing it carefully, I ended up buying a paint sprayer which was better but if I were doing it again I think I’d try little green. Used them on walls and it was so easy, best paint I’ve ever used where as even for emulsion F&B is hard to work with (horrible framing).
They get you on the amazing colours and the marketing, but it’s rubbish paint!

My cabinets have a frame and beading (like the attached pic which is from HMKOC insta - not mine!)if yours are flat you might find it easier than I did.

Can you get the F&B colour made up in a more durable kitchen paint?

Is their eggshell water-based?

I prefer Little Greene paint. I’ve repainted my cabinets twice in the last 10 years using their All Surface Primer and then their Tom’s Oil as a topcoat. The Tom’s Oil, theoretically, is more of an outdoor paint, but I love it. Has a slight sheen, never chips, easy to wipe clean. Oil-based topcoats are much more durable and hard-wearing over time in my experience.

The only time I don’t use it is for white woodwork. For that, I always use their water-based eggshell (water-based doesn’t “yellow” like oil-based does). This goes for any brand re white woodwork.

I painted ours (from HMKOC) with Little Greene eggshell just over five years ago, then changed my mind about the colour. We already had some F&B eggshell in Oval Room Blue left from our previous house so I repainted (with brushes) our lower cabinets and island with that. It's stood up really well - no chips or scratches in five years.

Ours are in-frame with beading (mostly drawers) and I had no issues, but I enjoy painting.

I agree with other posters that for emulsion I much prefer the way Little Greene goes on (although we've used a mix of F&B/LG in this house and previously used F&B a lot), but with regards to eggshell I don't think there's a huge difference.

I would only use an oil based eggshell not the water stuff especially on kitchen units. I bought a tine of F&B for a console table and it is rubbish, lots of chips and scuffs.

Oh and i get mine colour matched in my local paint shop - it dries hard and is virtually chip proof.

We have Little Greene on kitchen cabinets and no sign of wear after two years or is it three. Lovely paint

yes to LG oil based. ours are getting on for 10 years old and still good

I checked out LG and have done a complete about turn on colours and will
now be going for one of the Slaked Lime shades. Would you still recommend oil based on a lighter shade?

We painted our kitchen cabinets oval room blue and they had loads of chips after a year. We have now done them again and lacquered them. Much better.

Personally, I would always go oil-based for what I call “colours”.

Anything white, or resembling white/cream etc I would go water-based (so, I think, their intelligent eggshell). Water-based doesn’t”yellow” as much over time like oil does. I found this out to my cost during the last year!