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.
I absolutely LOVE all your white trim painting & you did a great job on your kitchen/powder room cabinet. Great job! NG
I just saw this on Before and After. What a spectacular change. Great work.
Wow! I mean seriously, WOW! That's so cool that you do all that, I always WANT to do things like this, but never have the guts! Well, or the time right now. But anyway, it looks so beautiful. How do you paint cabinets without making them look all 'hand-painted'? They look like they came white. I'm afraid mine would look all messy if I tried to paint them.
Your 'before' kitchen looks just like mine, and I've been anxious to paint them white. Yours seemed to have the same faint shine to them as mine- in your cabinet tutorial, you didn't mention sanding. Is that recommended? Thanks! Lovely kitchen!
What a big difference! It didn't look like the same kitchen anymore. The new one looks more beautiful! Adin Bhttp://itssewtasticmama.blogspot.com/2010/04/green-bag-ladys-40th-earth-day-freebie.html