BEFORE
This kitchen picture was taken in 2007 when we had the counter tops changed. I recall being so pleased. I look at it now, and I say to myself, "what was I thinking?"
AFTER
And here is what it looks like today.
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| After - Cabinets are Antique White. I love my little awning. |
Here are some details and a few pictures that I took along the way.
We took a slow pace to do the project. A month. Each Monday, we started a new phase and would work hard for two or three days, then clean up and take a break. Then we would visit the hardware store to buy supplies for the next phase. Some will asked what cabinet paint we used. We chose Beauti-tone cabinet and kitchen paint with the help of our local Home Hardware paint specialist. It was one of the premium paints that had a primer in it. Before we even started to paint, we had a days worth of preparation work to do. After removing the doors and hardware, we cleaned all the cupboards and frame with TSP. Then, we did a light hand sanding of everything. We used tack cloth to wipe up the dust. We applied painters tape on the walls around the cabinets, covered my wood floors and took a deep breath. Then after all that we painted. Two coats. The doors took the longest because they have a front and a back. The frames went pretty quick.
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| Our garage turned into a cabinet door painting studio. It worked great! This is half of our cupboard doors. |
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| Week 1 - Phase I - Painting the Pantry and Island frame. The doors are in the garage drying. |
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| Week II - Phase II - Upper and lower cabinets. The Doors are in the garage |
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| Week III - Auditioning dining room wall colors. We chose a color in between these two shades of grey. |
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| Week III - Phase III - Wallpaper gone, priming walls done. We paint the next day. |
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| Phase III - two coats of wall color done. The green painters tape is still up. This was our most tiring day. Two coats in one day might have too much for us. |
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| Phase III. and a half - New bead board back splash wallpaper. |
3 comments:
Looks great Gail. I'd love to see it "in person". After 23 years, I think our kitchen is ready for a re-do too.. dread taking that wallpaper off. Hubby, in his wisdom, papered before the cabinets went up so it will be a nightmare to try and take it off...
Your kitchen reno is stunning. Are you and hubbie for hire? Lucy
(joking - but you both did a great job)
Looking good, Gail!
To Linda, I totally get why he did that - to save all that friggy cutting around cupboards. Now you just get to cut around the cupboards to take the wallpaper off. The cutting had to happen sometime!
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