I used rustoleum in spray can it does matter the color because you may have a tiny bit of you cabinet exposed where the decal is trimmed. My first game I painted the whole cabinet and its a lot of work my second game I just painted the egdes like the factory did and it came out great

Also my first game I painted the whole cabinet because I installed decals using wet method .The second game I did dry method and find it works great and I will only use dry method now.

Well if your doing the wet method you will need to seal or paint cabinet.Theres pages of debate about both methods I found the wet method to be a lot more prep work. Also it was a pain trying to keep decal aligned while trying to squeeze out liquid and get rid of air bubbles