Sunday, August 22, 2010

kitchen cabinets before and after!







Yesterday, my awesome husband painted my red kitchen cabinets white and put new hardware on them in order to make one of my dreams come true!
I love him and I love them (the cabinets!)
When we bought this house three years ago, it was a cosmetic fix-er upper. The living room walls were covered in dark burgundy wallpaper, the kitchen was a nightmare of clashing colors (bright blue bead board, fluorescent yellow walls and red cabinets)
We removed disgusting wall to wall carpet from all the bedrooms and bathrooms (gross) and back room and put new flooring in the bathrooms, our bedroom and kitchen. After painting the kitchen wall and bead board we left the cabinets red since I was inspired by a vintage tablecloth from the forties with turquoise and red flowers. And I really like it, but it just got old. It made me feel like I was limited in my color choices for things since red and turquoise are so specific.
Until yesterday that is, when the vibrant red was covered in pure glistening ultra bright white. Ah...vintage glass knobs were attached giving it a cottage feel with only three glass pulls needing to be bought for the drawers. Several years ago we had ordered glass knobs from e-bay which had the best prices and selection for our kitchen cabinets in Florida. Rachel had ordered some also and used then for a dresser in her room and Jenny had used one for a dresser in her room and I had 7 knobs left over. I needed 10 all together and between my 7, Rachel's 2 and one from Jenny , there was enough to do all the cabinets, needing only to buy 3 drawer pulls from Hobby Lobby. I still have many red accents in the kitchen which does compliment the turquoise walls which I still absolutely love. Thanks honey, for making my wildest dreams come true!!
sorry for the poor quality pictures! I couldn't add pictures to my post on my husband's laptop so I saved them on picasaweb and somehow they got small and blurry :(

11 comments:

  1. Oh, I love white cabinets! How long did this project take your husband? I'm curious, because I've thought about doing the same with my cabinets (which are just wood). Your kitchen looks great! =)

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  2. The cabinets came out great. I saw the original pictures on facebook which came out a lot clearer. Too bad you don't have before and after pictures of your house when you first moved in, the change is amazing.

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  3. Nice change! Really makes the room look lovely.

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  4. I would love to paint my wood cabinets; just have been afraid to bite the bullet and get on with the show! Your's are lovely, though!

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  5. I love it!! I am wanting to paint my brown cabinets, blue. It's on my list.

    I love the vintage feel your kitchen has! It looks so cozy and the white really is nice. I like the red too though.

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  6. it took about half a day yesterday because of cutting in around the edges and insides and doing two coats and the hardware. we used Kilz satin, ultra bright white and it covered the red really well!

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  7. Glass knobs and pulls - be still, my heart!

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  8. Great job there - looks fanastic

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  9. I'm really thinking that I should get him down here for a little renovation!! lol... you think I could pay in hugs?? HA!

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  10. i love your retro looking kitchen, it's so darn cute!

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