Kitchen Cupboard – Part 1

We’ve decided to paint the inside of our glass-front kitchen cupboard.  This was hubby’s idea, and I think it’s a brilliant one.  He suggested a bright, bold orange like Benjamin Moore’s Electric Orange, but I decided to go with the slightly more tame BM Calypso Orange:

So last night, after removing the items and the shelves from the cabinet, I used Benjamin Moore Fresh Start primer followed by 2 coats of Calypso Orange:

I think the cabinets are IKEA melamine – and according to the intarwebs, Fresh Start primer will adhere to melamine and provide a decent base for latex paint.  However, I think I should have used BIN sealant/primer just to be sure…  I guess if the paint starts peeling off I’ll know I erred, and redo it using BIN!  But until then, I’m going to wing it.  I am planning to paint the insides of a few more cabinets, so I’ll use BIN to prime those.  I’m not painting the shelves, just the inside back and maybe inside sides of the cabinets.

I was using a Benjamin Moore sample, and samples only come in Satin finish, so the following pics don’t do our vision justice.  I think high-gloss orange would be fantastic.  But until then, here’s a sneak peak of the glass-front cabinet [if you look closely at the 2nd picture you can see Darwin’s tail forming a black question mark]: