The Kitchen

I’ve heard it said that what doesn’t cost you something, you don’t appreciate. Since I wasn’t going to spend the thousands $$$ it costs to get new cabinets, I decided to sand and scrape off all the old layers of paint and repaint them myself. Easy, squeezy! Ummmm….nope, not even close. I sanded and scraped for about two weeks, then decided I was ready to paint. I bought the paint-and-primer-in-one and started covering the cabinets with my color of choice, “Catwalk”. (aka, the teal you see in the photos) I was only slightly worried it might be a bit bright, but my theory with paint is, eh…don’t like it, repaint it. Over the next 2 weeks I completed the painting. I didn’t hang the cabinet doors right away as I wanted to make sure the paint was fully cured so I wouldn’t scar it while it was dry but still soft. But after two weeks I couldn’t understand how the paint could be still tacky to touch. Turns out because the cabinets were originally (we are talking ages ago) painted with an oil base paint, I needed to prime the surfaces with an oil base primer first then I could have easily used a latex based paint. Um….ok. Did that mean I now needed to strip the cabinets again and start over? Thankfully the contractor I was working with to insert the glass into the cabinets found an alternative. I just needed to apply a clear glaze and it would take care of the problem. Easy, squeezy. Done. Yay! …… Nope. Note to self: never apply a clear glaze to cabinets late at night in bad lighting and when you are tired. Lo and behold when I saw my work in the daylight I discovered I had beautiful brown streaked teal cabinets. Yeah, so NOT the look I was going for. I had to repaint the cabinets with the teal, let it dry and repaint the glaze once again. So if the saying is true, then I appreciate these cabinets very much.