How To Paint Your Cabinets

Just kidding. I have no idea what I'm doing.

Pretty much since the week after we moved in (because that first two weeks of owning the house was dedicated to getting the basement ready and the one after that was to unpacking and organizing the chaos) I have dreamed about painting my cabinets. Here's why:

The previous owner apparently thought that it was a good idea to "distress" the cabinets. And by distress I mean, hit the door fronts with chains and other interesting objects and hammer the edges with, well, a hammer. And then they decided that it was even awesomer to stain the cabinets a really dreadful, uneven color. I hate them. I hate them real bad.

So.

I've read and read and read and read (and read and read and read) every blog post and article I can find about painting cabinets. I've tried to glean every bit of info I can on what type of paint to use, which tools, if I should sand or not, if I should prime or not, how they finish, how the stand up to daily use... etc. If its our there, I've probably read it or some variation on it. I finally found this post one day as I was perusing pinterest but didn't pin it and forgot about it. Then one day I was google searching the type of paint to use on cabinets and what do you know? The same post popped up again! I must have living under a brick or something because apparently, these two are quite the home DIY'ers. Anyway, I love the explanation they use on how to finish cabinets and so I'm pretty much copying them.

Except.

I thought it would be a really awesome idea to trim my plain jane cabinet fronts up. Add a little POP to 'em. So I'm enlisting husband to teach me how to use the circular saw I bought him (and me) for Christmas. We are going to rip down a sheet (or two or three) of hardboard and create custom cabinets from the ones we already have! I'm reaaaaallly excited. So excited that the other day I picked up a container of wood filler and went to town.

Just know, that my cabinets look like they've contracted a mad case of the chicken pox.

(and yes, the bottom ones look WAAAAY worse than the top, Charming.)

Also know that I think they almost look better this way.

Anywho, tomorrow I'm going to start the awesome job of sanding ALL of them down.
Thats:
13 cabinet doors
11 drawers
2 lazy susans

yup, I predict that my whole arm will have a left over sanding feeling for days by the time I'm done.

I'll let ya know whats up next when I get done sanding! Wish me luck!


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