Kitchen Reveal

Mr. Bill finally agreed to having the kitchen cabinets painted. 

Then he wanted to know how much. :/

The painters had already primed so it was too late for that.
:)

I told you about my experience with having them done professionally.
Read about it here.

  I have also painted cabinets myself--4 times.

It was not fun at all.
I sort of said I would never do it again after the last time. 

 Which is why I lived with the oak longer than I wanted to.
I am not as young as I used to be and I knew that it would take me weeks.  I was sure I would have paint in my hair. 

  Here is the deal.
If you have read this blog at all, you know that I am a do it yourself kind of girl.  

 But...
sometimes it is good to know when you can't do something. 
It was worth it just to fork over some cash and let someone else deal with the mess.

 We did this makeover over the course of the last 4 years.
Here is a picture before we did anything.

I tried to make the best of these cabinets and painted the kitchen robin's egg blue. 
I actually liked it pretty well until a friend of mine told me that a blue kitchen in un-appetizing. 
I was perfectly able to eat in a blue kitchen.
Things started to break and wearing out, so we started working on the kitchen piece by piece.
Here is an approximate break down of the cost.

Counters- $200 Home Depot
Sink $400 Home Depot

Microwave $300 Sears

Stove $800

Dishwasher$800

Refrigerator $1200

Table and Chairs $600

Ceiling $1200 (repair damage from water leak, scrape popcorn and paint) 

Cabinet painting $1850

Knobs $80


I think this is a very frugal kitchen makeover. 
It literally feels like I am standing in a brand new kitchen. 

 It took time and patience but I think it was worth it.

We've got some fall birthdays coming up. 

Suddenly, I feel like having people over again. 

I just love it. 

Sprinkled with white cabinets, ;)
Katie
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Kitchen Changes Coming

I am thrilled to pieces that Mr. Bill said I could paint the kitchen cabinets.

Yeah!!!

 They are just builder grade cabinets from 1990.

 They aren't super quality but I think they are better than what we could afford now.

 The doors and facings are solid wood. 

We refaced the sides of them with bead board a few years ago. 

I even aged them by wiping black oil based paint in the crevices. It helped tone down the golden oak, but didn't cure them of the overall goldness!!

I added the pulls and knobs a few months ago. It was a last ditch effort to help me fall back in love with these cabinets.

Didn't work.

I took two doors off and made some display niches.

I had painted cabinets when we lived in Lubbock for three years.

They weren't painted correctly and they were constantly chipping. I had two small children and an infant. I didn't have time to deal with white cabinets.

 There were always peanut buttery fingerprints.

Ohh. I wish I had a few peanut butter fingerprints now that the kids are all grown up.  

I was going to do it myself, but I just couldn't muster up the energy.

I knew it would take a few weeks and that there would be paint everywhere.

We are having these done professionally.

I can't wait to show you.

Sprinkled with a kitchen cupboard redo,

Katie 
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