Kitchen Redo #2 2011

After the initial painting of the kitchen I knew that I wanted the cabinets painted but it took a few years before I was blessed to have my mom come to town and help me get that giant project done.

To start, we took all the doors off (make sure you tag each one so that you know where they came from!) and we removed all the hardware.

There are lots of posts out there that give you step by step instructions on painting you kitchen cabinets.

I'm not going to do that here.

I will however, tell you that there is a LOT of sanding involved, especially if someone was kind enough to coat your oak cabinets in a high gloss cherry Polyurethane!! Can you see why I hated them so much? You can't see the gloss, but you can sure see how uneven the finish was.

The cabinet boxes were the easy part. The hard part was the doors. All those little groves and the two levels made it difficult to sand and to paint.

We used plastic sheeting (stapled it to the horrible ceiling) but there was no stopping the dust.

Just look at mom, getting at it with that palm sander!

I'm thankful we had two sanders, and that my Black & Decker mouse sander had some great tips I could attach, which helped me with the edges.

Wow, would you just look at that! One coat done and it already looks so much better!

Yes, in the midst of all this mess, we hosted Thanksgiving dinner!

Here's hubby in the crazy kitchen mess, making his wonderful mashed potatoes. He put up with so much craziness.

Back to work.

Let me tell you, that was "back-breaking" work!!

The doors are starting to look good! You may have noticed the orange bottle floating around here. That is Floetrol and it was a LIFESAVER! It's a paint additive that you put in you latex paint and it helps reduce the brush marks that would otherwise be on the cabinet doors.

Here's the nasty hardware. I think it might have been brass or bronze at some point and they must have painted it "dark" (see where the paint is pealing off in the center part?)

We cleaned them up with a soak in the crock-pot using water and dish soap. Then we scrubbed them a LOT.

Next was decision time. Should we paint them white or brushed nickle (which is what the new knobs are)

We went with the nickle.

Here I'm putting the final hardware on the doors above the fridge.

Before

After

Remember, we started with this... and ended with this! What a beautiful difference!

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