Kitchen Make-over

When we moved in the cabinets had this white-washed gloss treatment on all of the woodwork. The backsplash was great, and the floor tile was alright, but the cabinets looked pretty rough.

Preparing to prime

We sanded every surface to knocked the clear coat down and to even out any of the high spots inside of the cabinets. You could see where moisture had swollen but the shelves, so we smoothed those down with a sander.

All Primed!

Once the sanding was done we taped up plastic and spray primered the whole place.

We then got to painting. Picking a color was tough. We had an idea of what color we wanted, so we went to the home improvement store and grabbed every sample that we thought might work. We walked out with roughly 100 samples, and then got to round robin elimination. We took two samples and decided which we liked more and set the better aside. Then grabbed two more samples and set aside the best one. We went through the whole pile and then repeated the process with "winners". We did this again and again until we had a winner. We decided on the dark tan. We painted all of the cabinets with the help of some friends.

Painting Started!

Claire's dad built new cabinet doors for us as a birthday present and we installed those later and called the project a success! Made the kitchen look so much better!

Finally done!