Painting the Kitchen Cabinets
I finally got around to cleaning after the kitchen remodel, so I could take some after pictures. It still isn’t quite finished. Someday I might get around to some window treatments and another someday new appliances. The cabinets were nice (raised panel-classic design), just ugly so all I had to do there was paint. I also applied beadboard and corbels to the island to give it more substance and painted the walls and molding. It’s amazing how much of a difference paint can make.
Here is it looked like before.
See the space between the cabinet and patio door? There was room there for a lovely garbage can if a person wanted to put one there. I did not, so I removed the existing upper cabinet and built 2 new upper cabinets and an additional base cabinet. Then I made one of the existing base cabinets a slide out garbage cabinet. I built the uppers 14″ deep to fit larger items like chargers or serving dishes that don’t always fit in a standard 12″ cabinet.
Now I can see what it would look like if I painted our oak kitchen white! Gorgeous! Just have to convince myself (and hubby) that it is worth it if we are building a new house in 2 years. One question: you painted all the oak in the kitchen white – did you do the same for the rest of the oak trim in the house? That's my dilemma!
Incredible! Can you share the name and brand of your yellow paint? It's just what I'm looking for!
Gorgeous remodel. It's really stunning.
Looks great! I painted our kitchen cabinets white too. It's amazing what paint can do, isn't it! Enjoy your blog. I'm a newbie blogger too. It's tough to keep the posts coming while trying to keep up with the projects at the same time.
GORGEOUS! We are house hunting right now and some of the homes we are looking at would need a remodel like yous so I am definitely bookmarking it. You did a beautiful job!