Since the first time I saw my kitchen I HATED my cabinets. I love my house, but those cabinets had to go. With school, work, and volleyball there really hasn't been time to do anything about them. But with inspiration from my sisters and mom I finally did something about it. I have had a little time on my hands before our baby girl gets here and decided to give these cabinets a face lift. (Although now that I am done with the cabinets, it seems Nov. 21 isn't very far away!) Anyway it was a lot of work, but I am proud to say I did it all myself with the occasional advice from Aaron :) and now I can't stop looking at them.
This is what it looked like when we first moved in… so nice. Couldn't figure out how to rotate it.
This is what it looked like after a lot of help from family (thanks guys!). Oh and Aaron put on the missing cabinets when I was in Wisconsin, it was a very nice and thoughtful homecoming gift.
Picked color and painted away the brown wall. I decided to not go with green even though I love green. I think Aaron was a little skeptical at this piont haha.
Sanded, primed, and filled in the weird gap thing.
I mitered all of the molding and put it on myself. Wood putty is my friend:) Oh and note to self for future projects don’t start painting until it’s time to paint.It’s so pretty! It took a week and a half with plenty of pregnancy breaks (naps). Oh I almost forgot to mention our wonderful tile floor. One of Aaron’s mission companions did our whole house for us and it looks great. I am so thankful for my kitchen.Eventually I want to put up a bead board back splash, but that’s for the future.You may notice my sink curtains. This was a cute solution to an unforeseen problem. I didn’t account for the width of the molding placed on the cabinet. Long story short I couldn’t open some cabinets because there wasn’t enough space between them. They would hit each other and only open to about a 20 degree angle. So yay for cute Hobby Lobby fabric and fabric tape! It’s one of my favorite things about my kitchen now. I also have cute handle’s for the draws that Heidi had but I took these pictures before I put them on and they look very good.
Now it's time for baby stuff!
