My New Kitchen

Last year when we moved in (Yes, we hit our year mark on Memorial Day Weekend, can you believe it?) we repainted everything in our PG house. Everything was white. Everything. I needed a little bit of color and spice in my life, so we repainted everything. My husband didn’t, and I don’t think still, understands my reasoning of repainting the ceilings white, but it was so nice to make our home our own.
We’ll I have been saving up since last year to repaint our kitchen, and the paint finally went on sale, and I had enough money, so last weekend the project began and only just finished on Friday.
You can see the process I went through, I promised a few friends I would post the pictures, so they could see the process, and repeat some of it. I must be honest in saying though that it was a TON or work, so when you do it, stock up on prepared food. It was the only way our family survived with out a fully functioning kitchen, as you will soon see what a mess it became–

Here is the before pics of our kitchen:


The kitchen ceiling had not been painted yet, so we started there (doesn’t it look nice? Thanks hubba!):

(We removed the food, doors and the hardware) Then I sanded everything, with a little help from Tuck, before he left for Logan:

I did a test run, oops, too brown, it looked almost purple. I shed a few tears, then went back to home depot to see if they could remix and add more black to it:

A few hours later here is my test door, much better:

Painted the Primer:

It is hard to see in the pictures, but then I painted a buttercreamy yellow color on the cabinet faces:

Followed by the pooh brown color(a few coats):

Finally the Black:

I distressed it:

Then did a walnut stain:

Followed by a clearcoat, a few layers. Now that the inside cabinet units were done, I started on the faces in the garage, sorry no pics of those, it was the same process.
In the meantime, we did not have any kitchen furniture, and the boys stood around a chair to eat, at first they thought it was fun, but then it got old, see the looks on their faces:

After the cabinets were done, we started on the walls. I had found a color that I love the sample of, called brookside moss, after I got it up on the walls though, I was overwhelmed by the intensity of Yellow in the paint.

So back to home depot to have them remix it. we tried it out again, and it still wasn’t right, so we added more brown, and then it was right, here is the first and the last color, The picture doesn’t show the real color very well though.

It was perfect, and here is how everything turned out:



Again, the pictures do not show the true color, but I hope you get the idea, it it sure nice to be done with this HUGE project!
It took alot longer than I had anticipated. I think that is because I ran out of clear coat, had to change the color of the paint to make it “just right”, and a few other minor things. I have no excuse for my nit-pickyness, but I think that it might have something to do with my fifth grade teacher, Mrs. Lambert, who engrained this message in our little heads: “If you can’t find time to do it right, how are you going to find time to do it again?” This is a message that has stuck with me thru my many years since 5th grade, and as I was painting everything, I truely did think I have got to do this right this time, I don’t want to live in this mess again!