We recently bought a house and the kitchen cabinets were probably about 40 yrs. Old. Stained, with a routered out design on the doors and drawers. I cleaned them, removed all doors and drawers. Removed the hinges and handles/drawer pulls. Then put 2 coats of Kilz over the entire wood work - inside and out. I had to put about 3 more coats of the final color which was an off white . I painted the routered out design - black. I spray painted the hardware