Kitchen Update: Phase 2

So, I ended up finishing the cabinet doors a week or so before Thanksgiving, but I am still working on little things like getting all the cabinet pulls back on, and touching up the paint where I scratched them all. I ended up painting the old hardware, but will probably end up replacing them eventually. For now it looks better though, so I am okay with spending the $5 on spray paint instead of however much it would cost to replace 15 cabinets worth of hardware.

I also still have the backsplash to do on one side. I did end up getting it primed though so it at least looks a lot better even though it's not fully painted. I kept sitting in the living room/dining room looking at the old stuff next to my newly painted doors and I finally just couldn't take looking at it anymore.

I posted some pictures of the islands earlier, but I will put a few of those here as well. They are simply wallpapered with beadboard like paintable wallpaper. I still have yet to paint those as well.

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Notice the old sink cabinet to the right. Kevin will be removing that eventually, but he has to make sure to close off the lines which involves crawling under the house-so not something he is really looking forward to.

Under the sink doors still missing the knobs. I had to re-drill the holes as they ended up right in the corner of the trim.

Still have to paint and put back up the glass doors on the wall cabinet.

 

**I should add how I did this. These are all the old cabinet doors, repainted them in white (they were a buttercream type color) and "refaced." To reface them, all I did was take some of that same wallpaper stuff I used on the islands, put it on the face of the cabinet, then used painted and cut trim boards to make up the outer trim. It really wasn't that hard, cutting all the boards for the trim only took me a day or so. The hardware was all taken off and spray painted.

A few more things to finish up, but definitely a vast improvement. Once I get all the detailing finished, next thing will be the floor!

Benjamin's Closet

I actually finished this project a week or two ago and am just now getting around to posting it.

Not near as exciting as some of the other things, but since I am never satisfied until things are organized, I was happy to finally get this done so I could hang Benjamin's clothes in his closet instead of a wardrobe box.

Can I also just mention-I hate painting closets? Might have something to do with why I still have yet to get my own done. 

Here is the before:

I thought it was pretty scary personally. They had lots of shelving though so all I really had to do was paint and put some carpet down.

After:

 

Ahhhh, how I love organization. I'm kind of jealous, it's basically a walk in-closet, definitely bigger than mine! 

And I finally found his name to put on his wall:

 

Will hopefully have some pics of the Master Bedroom soon! As well as the living room...and the kitchen...

Kitchen Makeover: Phase 1

I know, I know. It's taking me forever to post house update pictures! It's not b/c I haven't been working on it. Quite to the contrary actually.

Phase 1 of the kitchen makeover is done, and now I'm on to Phase 2. The final phase will be redoing the floor, but that won't be until we are able to accomplish a few other things (like removing the 2nd sink).

I'm actually in the process right now of redoing the cabinet doors. It's going to look so different! But more on that later, hoping to finish that up this weekend.

Phase 1 involved getting the icky ugly wallpaper down, the walls painted, and the backsplash redone.

As always, here is the before:

It wasn't the worst I've ever seen, but it was dirty, and there's nothing like paint to make things clean and fresh.

First, the wallpaper had to come down. That was a fairly awful task.

I didn't know what I was doing so I made a pretty awful mess to start with. After some research I figured out how to do it right and it made it a little easier, but they had painted under the chicken border so that made it much worse.

You can see to the left where I picked at it and really messed it up.

 

Once I figured out how to do it right it came off much easier. You can see the REALLY old wallpaper that was underneath the chickens and paint.

Since I decided there was no way I could get everything off, I primed before I painted. Worked like a charm!

Now the afters. It took a few days for me to warm up to the color, it's not unusual for me to have painter's remorse though :) I love it now!

After walls, backsplash and trim have been painted.

Backsplash done. I painted over the peachy colored tiles and kept the rest of the colors, the rest is painted with high gloss white paint.

The backsplash before. I still have one wall left to do.

I have to include my $20 table and chairs. I didn't think it turned out too bad, but I did discover it's really hard to put a even coat of clear coat on a table top! I finally gave up!

Okay that's all I have for now. Hopefully I can update with the new cabinet faces and hardware soon!