Painting your kitchen cabinets is a perfect way to give a dated kitchen a fresh look, without splurging on a big overhaul. It doesn’t cost much and with the proper preparation, it’ll look great and last long. We’ve outlined each of the steps below, including a video recap of all of the steps that we used to updated our wood kitchen cabinets.
(Rolls up sleeves, looks into the mirror, smiles, fixes weird fly aways, and whispers “let’s do this.”)
It’s finally here. The day that we get to wake up and pad into a kitchen that used to look like this…
And see this…
So here’s how we did it from soup to nuts. Wait, first let me gush a little more. Seriously, it doesn’t even feel like the same room. Scroll back up and picture yourself standing next to the fridge in the “before” shot. The cabinets felt about two feet away from you on all sides. I can’t explain it, but it was like the room didn’t respect my personal space and was always inching towards me. It was all up in my area. Now when I stand at the sink or pantry, I literally feel like I could perform a small musical number (with a minimum of six Glee backup dancers). It just feels so much roomier. Plus no weird cabinet knob-eyes are looking over my shoulder anymore. Bonus.
But let’s get back to the present. Ahh, much better.
Our big cabinet-painting victory hardly happened overnight. We’ve been slowly working up to this sucker for a while now. First we painted the paneling, the fireplace, and the beams. Then we rearranged our cabinets a bit, got new appliances and, oh yeah, got a big beautiful hole busted in the wall. Then some cabinets came in, others came down, and eventually new counters made their way to us. Finally, the painting project was upon us. So first came the primer…
… and, at long last, the paint. Speaking of the paint, we used Benjamin Moore’s Advance paint in Cloud Cover in a satin finish (it’s a soft tonal taupey-gray color, so it’s not quite as bright as our glacier white counters for a subtle layered look). Benjamin Moore Advance paint actually came recommended by a few pro cabinet painters that we know. We went with the satin finish because it’s specially formulated for cabinets (they actually came out with satin first and only added semi-gloss later to help folks who wanted more shine). We used it on our office cabinets a few months back (which still look great after Clara has beat on them relentlessly with wooden fruit) so it’s safe to say that we’ve been extremely happy with it. The fact that it’s low-VOC, self-leveling, and amazingly durable is pretty much the best thing ever.
Since a bunch of you have asked, here’s a rough timeline of the cabinet painting process (we just worked on nights after Clara went to bed and weekends during her naps, so it’s a good indication of what anyone with a day job might be able to follow):
- Day 1: We removed the cabinet doors (including drawerfronts) and hardware (including hinges), applied wood filler to cracks and hardware holes, let everything dry for a few hours, lightly sanded the putty spots by hand, and refilled them with a second layer of wood filler wherever necessary. We did the same to the cabinet frames. Our wood filler of choice was Elmer’s ProBond Professional Strength Wood Filler.
- Day 2: With the wood filler completely dry, we used a palm sander to smooth any putty spots and rough up all cabinet doors in the sealed off sunroom (it’s a dusty job). We then emptied out all the kitchen cabinets and covered appliances with drop cloths so we could also use the sander on our cabinet frames (roughing everything up = better adhesion). After everything was sanded, we wiped it down with a liquid deglosser (we like Next from Home Depot because it’s low-VOC and biodegradable). Read a lot more on the puttying, sanding, and deglossing steps of this process here (there are lots of pics too!).
- Day 3: Cabinet door backs and cabinet frames were primed (we love Zinsser Smart Prime which is high-quality, stain-blocking, and low-VOC – the primer trifecta). We applied it with a high quality 2″ angled brush to get into all the cracks and a small foam roller to smooth everything out and ensure that we were applying super thin and even coats (there’s a video of the application process a bit further down in this post)
- Day 4: We flipped the cabinet doors over and primed the fronts, leaving them to dry another 24 hours, just like the backs. Read more about the priming steps of this process here (there are extra pics too!).
- Day 5: With the primer all done and dry (be sure to read the can – ours said not to over-prime, so one coat did the trick), during Clara’s nap we flipped the cabinet doors over again and painted one coat of paint on the backs (we used Benjamin Moore’s Advance paint in Cloud Cover). We applied it with a high quality 2″ angled brush to get into all the cracks and a small foam roller to smooth everything out and ensure that we were applying super thin and even coats (there’s a video of the application process a bit further down in this post). Clara woke up before we could paint the frames, so after she went to bed that night we put a first coat on the cabinet frames.
- Day 6: We applied a second coat of paint on the back of the cabinet doors and the frames after Clara went to bed. As for applying any sealer or topcoat, the general pro recommendation for cabinet painting is to use high quality stain blocking primer and 2-3 thin and even coats of super high quality paint with ample drying time between coats (Benjamin Moore’s Advance paint is meant for cabinets without any top coat, since sealers can drip, yellow, and even cause things to stick/crack since they thicken the application).
- Day 7: We gave the doors a full day to dry before flipping them over and applying a first coat to the fronts (the reason we did the backs first was that just in case the backs got marked up while we painted the front, at least the front would remain pristine). The day of drying time did the trick though, so the backs look as good as the fronts.
- Days 8 & 9: We applied the first and second coat of paint to the front of the doors over these two days. Read a lot more on the puttying, sanding, and deglossing steps of this process here (there are lots of pics too!).
- Days 10 – 13: We let the doors dry and cure for the recommended time on the can (always read the can!).
- Day 14: We drilled for and installed the hardware on all of the doors (more on that in a sec). We also hung the doors but ran out of time before getting to the drawer fronts.
- Day 15: We installed hardware on the drawer fronts, put the drawers back in, and restocked the kitchen. A droopy but spirited happy dance also ensued.
All that info above (and those three bolded links to the previous posts on puttying/sanding/deglossing, priming, & painting) should be enough to get you going on any cabinet-painting project – but just because I always think a video is worth a thousand pics, here’s a quick one that runs through the process for you. Although at some points I’m so delirious that I make up words (putty brush?) and refer to primer as paint about a dozen times. But it definitely can be helpful to see exactly how to putty a hardware hole or how to prime and paint a cabinet door. Enjoy!
As for the hardware installation details that we promised in our timeline above, we bought these handy Liberty Hardware guides at Home Depot for $7 to help us place everything evenly (centered side to side, and consistently at the same height so all the doors match up). Let’s call it the best seven beans we’ve ever spent (it’s incredibly nerve-wracking to drill through your freshly painted cabinet doors, to say the least – so any tool to make it more of a science is a friend of mine). My only tip is to double check everything ten times before drilling. And see those white blobs on the template on the left? Those are small pieces of masking tape that we used to surround “the good holes” (the ones we were using) so we didn’t accidentally drill into the one to the left or the right.
We also realized that using a small piece of scrap wood would shift all of the handles a smidge closer to the edge of the door, which we realized we liked best (after holding the handle in various places on the template). So we used this scrap wood piece…
… for marking each door with a pencil…
Then John drilled a small pilot hole first (to make sure he was going straight into our marked dot and ensure the wood wouldn’t crack or splinter). Then we went back through with a larger drill bit that would allow the screw that was provided with our hardware to slide right on through.
By some miracle, everything ended up looking nice and even. Whew. You know how sometimes when you reuse something (ex: our oak cabinets from the early 80’s) you think it’ll somehow be wonky or look cheap after something like a paint job? I’m happy to report that they look so solid and amazing. We had completely new cabinets in our first house’s kitchen (to the tune of 7K – ouch!) and we’re just as happy with these. I guess sometimes solid oak from 30 years ago is just as good as solid oak from today. Haha.
Oh and our new hardware is from here for $3.24 per handle. We love the way the satin nickel looks with our stainless appliances (and we think the soft gray backsplash will only add to the fun. We got all the same hardware for every door and drawer, but just placed them horizontally on drawers and vertically on doors. Speaking of money, here’s our entire budget breakdown:
- Wood filler (Elmer’s ProBond Professional Strength Wood Filler from Home Depot): $7
- Primer (we used Zinsser’s Smart Prime from a local Benjamin Moore store: $22
- Benjamin Moore’s Advance paint (in Cloud Cover in a satin finish): $40 (thanks to a coupon)
- All new hardware (see that link above): $84
- All new hinges (from a local hardware store here called Pleasant’s): $89
- Hardware templates (by Liberty Hardware from Home Depot): $7
- Total cabinet makeover total: $249
Not bad when you compare that to the 7K total of the new white cabs that we selected for our first house’s much smaller kitchen. Le yikes. And we love that we added an entire peninsula with secondhand cabinets for under $95 (one of them was even free) – which is definitely one of those DIY coups that makes ya proud. All that storage and extra workspace is already coming in handy.
Anyway, to get back the whole putting-the-room-back-together thing, after we added the hardware, we just needed to reattach the hinges…
… and enjoy the view (don’t mind the clashy dishwasher- we’ll install our stainless one after we lay the cork floors so they’ll run underneath it).
I’ve totally been doing that thing where you spend way more time in a room than necessary, just staring at things. I keep gravitating towards the kitchen (ex: Clara, let’s go read this book on the floor next to the refrigerator!).
Oh and here’s a shot of how things look with the natural oak color inside the cabinets while the doors and fronts are painted. We don’t mind the two tone look at all, and this way we can toss things in there and pull them out without worrying about scratching or peeling paint (we did the same thing in our first kitchen and in our office built-in cabinets, and they really hold up nicely). Our tip would be to just keep a nice clean line around the frames when you prime/paint them (using a small foam roller sort of does that for you). That way it looks intentionally two-toned and not crazy-sloppy when you open the door. And yes, that is a slide out cutting board. Our cabinets may be old, but they still have their tricks. Haha.
For those who can’t watch the video above to see my shot of the painted cabinets up close, the picture below might shed a little light on the whole oak-grain thing. Using high quality primer and good self-leveling paint helps hide a lot although it doesn’t guarantee 100% invisible grain (we don’t see any evidence of grain on the oak cabinets in the office but do see a hint of it on the kitchen cabinets, so it probably just depends how much grain your cabinets have to begin with). We don’t mind painted wood that looks like painted wood though, so a little grain is ok with us, as long as the paint is nice and even and glossy.
Words can’t express how much additional function/workspace our little peninsula added to the kitchen. It’s amazing to think that none of these cabinets were here before our makeover! And the fact that we gained a 3 x 5′ counter on that peninsula already makes eating/baking/spreading out and doing crafts there a regular occurrence.
We mentioned in this post that two of the retrofitted cabinets were 100% seamless, and it’s these babies in the corner. We don’t think Sherlock Holmes himself could tell, even with his nose an inch away from them. Hurrah!
As I mentioned here, the three other retrofitted doors are tad less than perfect. By this I mean if you look at them from an inch away for five minutes (bobbing your head back and forth to catch the light bouncing off of them) two out of ten people might notice a tiny seam. The cabinet hanging above the cereal jars in the photo below is one of them. See how it’s almost impossible to pick up from far away…
But when you get super close and the light hits it just the right way you might be able to catch a super subtle horizontal line? In person it’s so unnoticeable that we can’t decide if it’s worth doing anything about, but we’ll keep you posted if we decide to sand them one more time and use some sort of buildable primer and a few more coats of paint to hopefully make them as perfect as the two corner cabinet doors are.
I don’t know why I love this shot but I do. John’s totally my hero for figuring out how to build in the fridge like that. Mah man.
Oh my gosh, can you even believe that room looked like this last December when we moved in? In case you can’t tell, it’s hard for me to wrap my brain around that.
The doorway to the dining room definitely helps bring the light in – and the glossier cabinets and bright white counters definitely brighten things up too.
Here’s the other side of Dark City:
And the same view now that I’m the Mayor of BrightVille!
Of course there’s still tons to do, like…
- hang our backsplash tile
- add floating shelves & a range hood
- redo all the lighting (two pendant lights over the peninsula + inset lights in the cooking area)
- install our mocha cork floors (can’t wait to balance out the brightness with some rich contrast!)
- install the new dishwasher
- add quarter-round and crown molding
- possibly tweak our stools (we’re waiting for the room to take shape a bit more)
…but it’s definitely progress. Hooray, progress. So who’s about to embark on a cabinet painting adventure of their very own? I hope this post full of details (and especially that little video we whipped up) come in handy! Have fun and don’t forget to make up words (might I recommend putty brush?).
Update: Our painted cabinets are still holding up great. Check out a little update post here.
Psst – Wanna know where we got something in our house or what paint colors we used? Just click on this button:
amyks says
Holy WOW! It looks simply amazing. Congratulations.
Suzy says
WOW! I love it! I can’t wait to see the finished product!
Can you come tackle my kitchen next? I haven’t yet built up the confidence to undertake this very same project!
Sarah says
Beautiful! Worth all the hard work…and I say leave the retro-fitted cabbies for now. If they bother you in 6 months then you can always redo them and post an update. Also, sad to see you leaving baby center, but glad we get similar posts here from time to time. You guys deserve the break, for sure!
Sherry from BC says
Wow! It looks amazing. Love the fresh clean look. My only quibble is with your blog layout. Would be lovely to have before and afters side by side to really feel the full effect as with my small screen I don’t always capture the before and after on the same page. You have done an amazing job in a surprisingly short time, though it probably doesn’t feel like it to you. And on a small budget. I can’t wait to see how you go about the new lighting with subsequent necessary patching. Ceiling patches are so difficult to make invisible. Hoping for some tips on that.
YoungHouseLove says
We have actually toyed with putting before and afters next to each other but the pics get about half as big which makes them a lot harder to see! Since it allows them to be much wider when they’re on top of each other, that’s our preferred method! Hope it helps!
xo,
s
Suzanne @The Wine{a}be says
A.Maz.Ing!!!
I’m so sharing this with my in-laws…they were just talking to me last week about wanting to repaint their kitchen cabs white. It will give them great insight!
Enjoy your new kitchen…can’t wait to see more!
Meredith says
AMAZING! Love it, love it, love it. It’s awesome watching your kitchen progress—so fun. :)
(Also, I think you want to read with Clara by the “refRigerator” not the “refigerator”).
YoungHouseLove says
Haha, it’s true. What the heck is a refigerator?
xo,
s
Gina @ Running to the Kitchen says
It looks absolutely amazing! Not that I expected any less ;) But seriously, I can’t get over how well the pieced together cabinets and seams came together to look once painted. Nice job guys!
Jessica F. says
Love it! All smiles here :)
Tara says
Gorgeous!! I can’t wait to see your kitchen as it transforms. Nice work! We painted our kitchen cabinets and got new countertops last March and are getting ready this month to add new flooring. It’s a tough job (we swore we’d never do it again after this time), but it’s totally worth it!
Rhonda says
What an amazing transformation. That must feel so good to have it finished. Are you gung ho to keep going or are you taking a breather?
YoungHouseLove says
We’re gung ho! Well, we’ll rest a few days and hopefully start on the backsplash next week!
xo,
s
Elisabeth@SimpleGreenishLiving says
Looks amazing! Nice work. So impressed that you guys reused your existing cabinetry to make this happen!
Erika says
Fantastic job! Still can’t believe what a difference it made. Enjoy your new lovely, bright, happy kitchen!
Andrea H Ross says
I will definitely be “borrowing” your type of paint choice. I have a barrister’s bookcase I bought on craigslist and have been trying to figure out what type of paint to use for that flawless finish because I really don’t want brush marks on it, seems like this paint and your careful painting achieved that!
Love the way its coming along! Good luck with the rest!
katie says
What a transformation! I love it!
Our kitchen has yucky two-tone 1970s oak / white cabinets with blue and yellow painted walls / wallpaper / wood paneling. I CAN NOT wait to do a similar transformation. Thanks so much for the informative, super-inspirational post. It’s great to see proof that one can make something beautiful from something ugly :)
How would you compare your steps to using one of the Rustoleum Transformations kit? Is that kit more of a short-cut that won’t hold up for the long haul like what you did?
YoungHouseLove says
We just had a lot more pros recommend this method than those kits (I think things that encourage skipping things like sanding can raise some eyebrows). We just like being extra thorough and also appreciated that this was a low-VOC approach too!
xo,
s
Laura B. says
The kitchen looks awesome!! Great job!
Dern – I thought it was going to be a tearful pregnancy announcement! Im sad to see there will be no more Baby Center posts, I hope you can kind of make up for it though using young house life though! I hope you find the balance you need!
YoungHouseLove says
Aw thanks Laura! We’re still a ways off from the Baby #2 train. Haha. I think that might throw us for a loop in the balance department too! Haha.
xo,
s
Lindsay says
Wow guys, well done!!
JanetL says
It really is exciting to watch the room slowly transform. I know the floors are last but I can’t wait to see them with the cabinets!
Fantastic job!
Ang says
OMG, I forgot to mention, I laughed loudly when I saw the faces on the cabinets! Hilarious!
Amy says
Looks great you guys! Worth all the work!
Jenny says
Looks fab!
Jen @ The Decor Scene says
Holy BRIGHTNESS Batgirl!!! If I didn’t know it was the same house, I wouldn’t know that is the same kitchen. Love it!!! It looks bigger and your added the peninsula. Crazy!!! You will be doing happy dances for awhile I’m sure! Enjoy your new brightness!!! ;)
Lani says
Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh! When I see your kitchen and house transformations, it so inspires me to go buy a fixer upper and have at it. You’ve both done such a beautiful job.
Thank you for sharing :)
Lani
Gretchen says
Oh my gosh! Thanks for sharing your valuable info! The cabinets look great.
laraffinee says
Thank You, thank you, thank you!!!! Your blog is so helpful to us do-it yourself- as-much-as-possiblers!!! Seriously, it is not just a cutesy site, but rather a really helpful, useful one! My kitchen cabinets have been waiting for me to get started, and I have been waiting for your step-by-step guidance, which is all together here! Although you probably know this, I just want to confirm how grateful I am that you two decided to do this blog. It created the kind of life you wanted and has been so useful and benefical to so many of us! Thank you!
YoungHouseLove says
Aw thanks so much. That’s so sweet of you to say.
xo,
s
Cindy says
I LOVE IT!! I would really love to paint our orangy oak cabinets white, but we have so many cabinets (I know, boo-hoo, right!) that it would be a big job. I just might do it this summer! p.s. John’s new tri-pod would really come in handy when you are doing video tutorials. That way, we could actually see YOU doing it!
Cindy says
I’m referring to puttying the holes, not the priming…because of course, we all say you PRIME that door like a pro!
YoungHouseLove says
Haha- that’s a good point. I have no idea why we didn’t use a tripod because holding things with my hand and trying to work and talk was clearly too much for me. Haha.
xo,
s
Elizabeth says
Thanks for all the detail! You’re so right; the painted cabinets definitely recede while the old kitchen comes in at you.
Holly says
Love it! We have cherry cabinets in our house and they are new. I’ve always wanted to paint them white but can’t justify it because the wood is really nice and new – however, this might have inspired me to go for it.
Paige says
Shut the front door! The room is completely amazeballs.
You said something about maybe changing the stools. Are you having second thoughts about the industrial look?
YoungHouseLove says
We just mentioned in the post about them that we might upholster the chair part or something (to cover those round plywood circles)! We definitely love the industrial look, though- that’s why we got them!
xo,
s
Kelly says
Am I the only one that think the stools slightly resemble E.T.?! :) Love the transformation, great job! I cannot believe it is the same kitchen. Looks completely different and bright!
YoungHouseLove says
Haha, phone home!
xo,
s
karen says
you guys are so helpful. i love you.
YoungHouseLove says
I love you right back Karen!
xo,
s
Elizabeth says
I laughed so hard at the prolonged pause after step 6: wait. The longer the pause went on, the more I laughed. The kitchen looks great. I am totally inspired.
Penny says
That part got me too. Also Sherry’s little song. “Dee dee-dee dee-dee dee-dee. Doot doot-doot doot-doot.”
Alison says
I love it!!!!!! It looks amazing!! I’m excited about what you are going to do with the barstools. As much as I like the biology lab look, I know you will be able to add much more character to them.
Jennifer @ Dimples and Tangles says
It looks fantastic…such a huge difference. You guys are amazing!
FYI, I have a fridge with that “stainless look but fingerprint resistant” look too, and it scratches. Now that there’s a scratch across mine, I see that it’s like a thin plastic silver looking film. Just be careful…
YoungHouseLove says
Aw man- that stinks! Thanks for the warning!
xo,
s
Sarah K says
If anyone ever doubted that you guys had AMAZING design vision , this should change their minds. It looks incredible. I really cannot believe the difference and I think I’ll be printing out before and afters of your house when we (someday) go house shopping. It will serve as a reminder how different a place can look with a little bit of paint and a lot of elbow grease!
Katie says
This is awesome!! Thank you for all the detailed steps. My husband and I are planning to paint our existing cabinets soon, and we have no idea what we’re doing, haha. Yours turned out fab so yeah, we’ll be following the Petersik method!
heather says
I would like to give you a high five because this looks so good and bright and airy and like a breath of fresh air, except I can’t because my arms are frozen to my side right now since I just came in from lunch and the high today is 21 degrees. It was approximately (exactly) 5.5 degrees without windchill when I woke up.
When I thaw out in the spring you promptly have a high-five coming you way.
YoungHouseLove says
Haha- I’ll be waiting for you to thaw to cash in on that high five.
xo,
s
Ruthie says
Amazing. I can see the heavenly glow of the clean crisp white cabinets! Even the cabinets you found and added in the peninsula look great!
I love the fresh green plants on the counters… Job choice idea #2… Professional Stagers??
YoungHouseLove says
Haha, I think I’d stage every kitchen with green apples! So happy looking!
xo,
s
Brittney Saffell says
It looks AWESOME!! What a transformation! I am just going to be honest. When you rigged up the cabinet doors, as in cutting them and then putting them back together to get the right size, I thought you were crazy. Completely and totally crazy! But they look wonderful. I just stared at my computer screen for a good 5 minutes and could not see a line in the picture….everything is a little blury now as I type this…staring at the computer screen may not have been my best idea…kidding :)
My husband and I actually just repainted our cabinets last month so I feel your pain. I still just walk into our kitchen to admire it :) Next is backsplash! High five for some white subway tile! Woo Woo
YoungHouseLove says
Haha, that’s funny! We usually can tell as we write a post like the door-cutting one that a good percentage of the folks reading will think we’re totally nuts! Haha. So glad it worked out for us this time! Although I have to admit, we’re just doing the whole trial and error thing, so things can totally bomb too! We just try to figure out as much as we can as we go!
xo,
s
Kelly says
I have 3 comments (ha! I actually wrote “cabinets” first and meant to write comments! teehee!)
1. I have to laugh at the number of times you write “Benjamin Moore’s Advance paint in Cloud Cover”. :o) In the past two days with all of the posts and comments, I’m guessing you can probably type it on a keyboard as fast as your name.
2. Like another poster said, I have to admit that I was skeptical from the time you painted the kitchen “grellow”. I seriously thought, okay, Sherry and I just DO NOT have the same taste. :o) And then with every step along the way, I started seeing it come together and now I’m AMAZED! It looks FANNNNNNNNNNNNN-TAST-IC!!!!
3. But, cabinets aside, WHAT THE HECK IS WITH THE CUTTING BOARD??? How does it work?? I love cabinets with secret pockets and features!! I think I may need to get me one of those pull-out-dillios!
Great job guys!! I am so addicted to your blog!
YoungHouseLove says
Haha, you’re cracking me up. The cutting board pulls out and can be used on the counter and then washed and tucked back in. Instead of leaning or stacking on things it just has a little hidden cubby on the top of the cabinet- which is actually pretty fun! It took us about three months to even discover it was there. It’s the James Bond of cutting boards.
xo,
s
Janette@The2Seasons says
Glad to see you ARE human. My daughter/blog partner and I were wondering this morning how you two do all that you do. So, I completely understand your need to stop writing the Baby Center blog entry. We have loved your kitchen’s progress. Jordan’s husband is almost over the fence on a thumbs up to our painting their kitchen cabinets. (I will be visiting them for a week this month). Your post today just might bring him over to Team White. Let’s hope!!!
Jessica says
AMAZING transformation. And you guys are so awesome for providing the step by step to perfectly painted cabinets. Our most likely original to the house (ie: made in the ’70’s) oak cabinets were painted white when we moved in, but the paint is totally wearing off around the handles and on the edges. I was fearing the re-painting process but now am much less apprehensive. Do you recommend totally stripping the paint first before priming or just a nice even sanding job?
I can only hope our kitchen looks as classy as yours when all the hard work is done :)
YoungHouseLove says
I would sand the heck outta it and use a good primer and paint and you should be set! Good luck!
xo
s
JS says
Yay!! Looks fantastic! Can’t wait to see the other updates (i’m really excited about the backsplash!)
Kathleen says
The kitchen looks great!! I have a question for the experts :) I’m trying to find ways to re-do my kitchen. Currently the cabinets are white and the counter-top is white. I was considering painting the cabinets brown. I’m trying to go with a coffee/red theme.
Do you think that would work? Or does white paint seem to be the way to go?
YoungHouseLove says
Ooh yes, rich chocolate cabinets can be amazing! You can even keep the uppers white like the counters and just take the lower ones to a nice dark chocolate color. Yum!
xo,
s
Kathleen says
Thanks Sherry :) Love your blog!
Sophie says
Love the new look of the cabinets! This a potentially really dumb question but I was wondering if you labelled the doors so you knew which door went where. Or was it easy to tell?
YoungHouseLove says
We actually laid them out in a specific order in the sunroom so when we did the hardware for each one and brought them back in, the order helped us place them! Hope that helps!
xo,
s
Kelly says
Oh, and just had to say that I smile and laugh every time I see those cabinet/eyeball/face pics. HA!
Annalea says
Oh W.O.W. Ole! Bravo! (Insert favorite cheering exclamation here.)
Funny/cute thing: Kylie Minogue’s “Do The Locomotion” just came on my iTunes. Wanna dance in your kitchen? I do! ;o) Let’s see a video of the YHL crew breakin’ it down . . . either now, or when everything’s complete. That would be rockin’ awesome. :o)
Have a fab day!
YoungHouseLove says
Haha- I do love that song…
xo,
s
Nikki Kelly says
Hey there refrigerator twin! I don’t know if you know this yet, but you can put magnets on your fridge (here’s proof, http://theambitiousprocrastinator.blogspot.com/2011/07/fancify-pictures-on-your-fridge.html . If I remember correctly doesn’t Clara have some alphabet magnets that used to be on your old fridge? Congrats on getting your cabinets back together btw!
Nikki @ the ambitious procrastinator
YoungHouseLove says
Haha, I’ve heard that! Might have to break those out…
xo,
s
Shelley says
Love the hardware! Perfect little industrial touch…I think they’ll be good friends with the stools :)
YoungHouseLove says
Oh yes, they’re totally BFFs already. They have so much in common. Haha.
xo,
s
kalibrooke says
It’s amazingly fantastic. Seriously. Those rich cork floors are going to own that place. Give yourselves several pats on the back for your vision and all that hard work…what an undertaking!
Nancy says
I just started reading your blog a two months ago and I must say what you guys have done is amazing. I really appreciate the budget breakdowns. Its encouraging to know you don’t have to spend a lot to make things look AMAZING! Great job!