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Sunday, February 27, 2011

Kitchen Cabinet Makeover

For months I agonized over how to tackle the job, of repainting my cabinets. I flipped through design magazines, blogs, and had endless conversations with Home Depot dudes. I usually ended up feeling frustrated, like it was too great a task. The Home D. guys I spoke with told me I would have to sand the cabinets bare, glaze them, heat them reglaze.....What the??? Excuse me while I fashion a noose and hang myself sir. I finally decided to just go for it(with my clever momma's help of course) Here is what we did:

Lightly sanded(just slightly roughed them up) the cabinets while the doors were still hanging.

Got out our handy dandy drill and took all of the doors down
BEFORE

DURING
We then laid out a drop cloth, laid the doors down(on the plastic above each door we wrote with a sharpie where each door belonged, like over the fridge right side or whatever- this was SO helpful when we hung them back up) and primed them.(2 coats) I just used a mini roller and a brush for the little corners.   After they dried I applied two coats of Glidden Prairie Sage paint.  We hung the doors back up and installed the hardware.

AFTER!!! 



7 comments:

Angie Lucas said...

beautiful! now will you come do mine?

hoLLy said...

wow! looks uh-mazing!

Maren said...

Looks adorable! Amazing how much it changes the whole Kitchen! Looks like you painted the walls too, but you didn't even have to! Success! :)

Emily said...

I love the color you picked out for your cabinets. Your kitchen is darling...you did such a great job!!! I recently painted my upper cabinets and am waiting to find the perfect color for my lower cabinets...love your color!!! Would you mind telling me the name of your color?
thanks!
-emily
www.nestnestingnested.blogspot.com

Mary said...

Love that color. Love that you were organized enough to label those doors! Thanks for sharing!

crazy for chocolate said...

When it warms up again,(if it ever does) I plan on repainting my kitchen cabinets. I never gave green a thought till I saw yours. Just mite be checking out some other colors. Looks wonderful!

Brambleberry Cottage said...

Terrific color for your cabinets, Jori! The redo brightened the whole kitchen. Did you repaint the walls, as well?

Liz @ the Brambleberry Cottage
http://thebrambleberrycottage.blogspot.com/