We started the day by "washing" the cabinets and trim in the breakfast area with this product called Krud Kutter. We got the bottle of it from our neighbors...they used it when they painted their cabinets and they said it worked great. This product cleans and "sands" the area so it is ready to paint. This process took longer than we thought...it was just very time consuming.
Kyle spend the morning and early afternoon numbering and removing all the doors to the cabinets. We have SO MANY doors! He also removed the knobs and hinges so they are ready to paint. When we get to it...sometime this week.
Once everything was clean and ready to go, we started painting the Kilz primer on the trim and cabinets. It took all afternoon and part of the evening. I know we have a big kitchen, but I guess I didn't realize just how big the kitchen really is in this house.
Our original plan (once we decided to paint) was to paint a dark chocolate brown on the cabinets that would sort of mimic the stain color we wanted. After seeing the kitchen cabinets all nice and white today, we are seriously rethinking the color. Since we might be selling our house soon, we decided to go with white because we feel it is more appealing to a larger number of people versus the dark brown.
Here are some pics of the day...
Tomorrow we will start painting. Our goal is to get this cabinet makeover completed this weekend if possible. Thank goodness we have Monday off to work on it, but I think it will spill over into the week a little...hopefully not too much. I need my kitchen back to bake about 100 cookies for a shower next weekend.
Until next time...Gig'em!
2 comments:
The white is nice. It makes it look bright and cheery in there.
I like the white. :)
Selling the house? Where are you thinking about going?
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