Our Kitchen Reveal-95% Complete!

First off, I have to say that we love our new kitchen!! It took quite a while to redo these cabinets (over two months) and I'm not completely finished yet, but for the most part it is done. 


To refresh everyone's memory on what we started with, how about a few before pictures? 

I don't believe I have ever posted the above picture before, but this is the kitchen on the day we decided to make an offer on the house. We were taking another look before we decided for sure and I snapped a bunch of pictures to look at while we were deciding between this house and another one. 

This picture was snapped on my Iphone right after I got everything unpacked and put away in the new kitchen. 

Then this last picture was when we tried to brighten everything up by painting the walls green. I really wanted that color to work, but it just didn't. I think it brought out the yellow in the cabinets even more and just didn't look right with the granite. 

So next I decided to take on the huge project to redo all of these cabinets too. There were times when I was in the middle of this when I thought what in the world have I got myself into. It felt like all I did was cabinets for two months. I was so sick of cabinets. 

So. Sick. Of. Cabinets.

But then....I finished. We painted the kitchen a nice chocolate brown. And we got new light fixtures that Chris installed. And we decided that the white refrigerator just did not look right and on black friday took advantage of a killer deal on a new stainless refrigerator. And our old dishwasher would leak on the floor sometimes. Not every load that was washed, but after about every 10 or so there would be a puddle of water on the floor. And it was loud. So very loud. So we decided to replace that too with a black friday sale. 

And now we have this beautiful kitchen that we absolutely love!!!!!!!

Once again I used the Rustoleam Cabinet Transformation Kit. (I really think I should be a paid spokesperson for them at this point!) The outside cabinets were done with the Pure White and glaze. The island was done with the leftover Expresso kit I had from redoing the boy's bathrooms earlier this year. So far I have bought two of the white kits and one dark kit, and got two new bathrooms and a new kitchen out of them. Not including the new appliances, this kitchen remodel for the kits, new hardware, paint and new lighting ran us about $600. Not too bad!!!! And another bonus from redoing all of those cabinets is that I don't hate the kitchen floor anymore! I think it really works with the new cabinet colors. 

I still have one last part to finish, which is why this post is titled as 95% complete. 

I decided to wait to do this part after the holidays. We want to have those three center cabinets removed so that we can actually push the barstools under the counter. We will have to hire a handyman for that because we have no idea how cut those out and keep the granite from crashing down. 

So for the year 2011, I have refinished 46 cabinet doors (fronts and backs), 25 drawers and 2 medicine cabinets and completely redone 2 bathrooms and a kitchen. Not too shabby, if I do say so myself! 

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Kitchen Cabinet Sneak Peak

I had every intention of not showing any pictures of our kitchen until we were completely done with the remodel. But we finished the first section this last weekend and I am so excited with how it turned out that I just had to post some pictures!


I forgot to take before pictures of the first section we worked on, so I went hunting through my old pictures and found this one from last Christmas. 

It is a little blurry and not the best pic, but this shows the section we started with: the desk area plus the cabinets to the sink. It was a big area to start with and I won't try and do that many at the same time again. I learned that smaller areas will be better for me to tackle and still manage to keep up with the rest of my life. Last week I felt like all I did was kitchen cabinets and I had to neglect other areas of the house. However, I'm glad that I got a section of top and bottom cabinets done so that we can see how it is going to look. 

Ta da...........The after:

Chris added all the new hardware. Look how perfectly lined up they are! (He made himself a template out of an old cereal box.) 

The green wall color is going to go away too. Imagine a chocolate brown on the walls. And now our kitchen table chairs match the new cabinet colors! That was a happy accident. Gotta love those! 

And for another comparison of what the cabinets looked like before, here is the other side of cabinets that still need to be done. This really shows how the new cabinet color is going to look so much better with the granite counter tops and backsplash. These golden oak colored cabinets don't bring out any of the granite colors at all. 

And here is the keeping it real picture. 

I still have 3 doors to get done for this side. Aww, the wonders of photography to hide things we don't want you to see. :)


I still have lots more cabinets to do to get this job completed. There is also an island that you can't see that has 12 doors and 6 drawers to refinish on it. My goal is still Christmas to be done with everything, but secretly I'm hoping for Thanksgiving! I just have to stay focused on the job. :)


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