Comments on: An Inside Job

By: YoungHouseLove

YoungHouseLove — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 14:21:40 +0000

That’s Gentle Tide by Glidden. It’s discontinued but they can look it up on the computer for you at Home Depot. Hope it helps!

xo,
s

By: Laura

Laura — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 13:58:33 +0000

Hi there,
Do you by any chance remember the name/brand of the blue/green paint color you used to paint the inside of the cabinets? I just love it!

Thanks,
Laura

By: YoungHouseLove

YoungHouseLove — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 18:21:43 +0000

Our best advice would be to wait at lest 48 full hours and even longerif you can stand it. Otherwise you risk thibgs sticking to the shelves and cabinet backs. Hope it helps!

xo,
s

By: LizzieBeth

LizzieBeth — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 17:50:55 +0000

Hello there,

I just painted the back of my kitchen cabinet…today! How long should I wait before putting the shelves back in and loading it up? Of course, I’m anxious to do it…like…I’m sick of the contents of the cabinet stacked everywhere…but, I don’t want to mess up the new paint job when I reinstall the shelve. Any advice you can give me would be so appreciated. I hope you see this…this is an old post. Thanks again, LizzieBeth

By: YoungHouseLove

YoungHouseLove — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:41:41 +0000

Hey Amy,

Hmm, good question. A crisp white backdrop would look lovely behind the green glass but won’t make the white dishes stand out. How about just sliding a shade or two lighter than the upper cabinet color you go with for a moody and sophisticated mix. Hope it helps! And we love the idea of chicken egg inspiration!

xo,
s

By: Amy

Amy — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:29:36 +0000

I love the effect of painting the inside of your cabinets. We are about to paint our kitchen cabinets, including the insides of a few of them. I have a number of glasses that are made from greenish glass, sort of antique-y. Do you have any ideas about what color I could use in the cabinets to really make the glass stand out and will make my white Pottery Barn dishes stand out?

Right now I’m thinking about painting my lower cabinets a greenish/greyish/puttyish/oliveish something and the top cabinets a creamy/slightly tanish something (this is where the glasses will be displayed). These colors are inspired by a selection of free-range chicken eggs I have left over from Easter. They are so so subtle and complex and completely calming, but I have no idea how to use them in a kitchen!!

By: YoungHouseLove

YoungHouseLove — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 04:10:28 +0000

Definitely don’t skip the oil-based primer since it will save the day! Oil-based paints followed by latex bubble and peel, but oil-based primer will be the perfect foundation for the latex paint. Hope it helps!

xo,
s

By: Mel

Mel — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 01:45:25 +0000

Hi Youngsters.

I realize that this is a question to a very old post, I hope that you get it.

My question is…I want to repaint my kitchen cabinets. Previously I painted them with melamine paint. If I were to go to latex paint, would I still have to prime with oil based primer (the melamine is oil based)?

Love your site. Thanks for all of the wonderful tips. I’m new to blogging and hope you will visit my site.

Mel,
Mississauga, Ontario (that’s Canada eh!)

By: YoungHouseLove

YoungHouseLove — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 03:24:24 +0000

Hey Alicia,

Thanks for the kind words. Always nice to hear. And we’d love to weigh in on your cabinet debacle. KraftMaid is the most expensive cabinet line that Home Depot carries, and we’re usually not (ok, never) people who buy top-of-the-line items. We must admit it felt weird to dish out mucho bucks for those cabinets, but hearing from a friend who works at a design magazine that KraftMaid is the best and also learning from our kitchen designer that KraftMaid cabinets are good quality “50 year cabinets” made them the obvious choice. Kids can hang on them, you can bang them, slam them, kick them, etc… and they take it all without showing any signs of abuse. Very appealing.

Since we plan to be in our house for a long looong time, paying a lot for a top quality kitchen that lasts a looong time made more sense than getting something more affordable that might last 15 years instead of 50.

We also learned early on in our research that Ikea cabinets are pretty complicated to order in that you have to add every drawer slide, door, hinge, handle and knob to your order yourself and the kitchen comes in about a million pieces for you to assemble. Since we wanted to do it right (and didn’t have faith that we’d be the ones for the job) we decided to go with Home Depot’s installation guy (he rocked) and we’re confident that our kitchen is comprised of quality materials that were installed correctly. And that really helps us sleep at night.

I’d urge you to go with a more cost effective option if you’ll only be in your house a short time (around 5 years or so) but if you’d like to grow old there, it might make sense to save for something that’ll go the distance.

Hope that helps!

xo,
Sherry

By: Alicia

Alicia — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 02:14:23 +0000

I stumbled across your blog several months ago and have been intrigued with your style from the beginning. You both have such an ability to inspire through your blog. I continue to come back and read at least every other day if not daily because everything you put your hand to do is so do-able for the average person! You have helped me realize why I’ve always seemed to be paralyzed in not knowing what inspired me, even though I would spend lots of time pouring over different magazines. I thought I liked casual but come to find out, I like the clean lines of the modern style. I have a question regarding your Kraftmaid kitchen cabinets. I know you did a lot of research and wondered if you could share the pros and cons of IKEA cabinets versus the Kraftmaid cabinets. Though I haven’t seen prices of the Kraftmaid cabinets, I’m concerned they might be too pricey for our budget if we were to purchase in the near future. If you think it is totally worth saving up for the Kraftmaid, let me know what you think. Thanks again – Alicia