Thought I would give everyone an update on my kitchen redo and share a few photos of our progress. As you can see from the photo above that the cabinets on the left are painted and the ones on the right are waiting for me to get to. First, I would like to tell you that this was a bigger job than we ever dreamed it would be. When we pulled off the old wallpaper, we found out that the walls were in really bad shape. My husband had to patch and sand them. What a mess that was! We painted the walls and got the trim done, but then craft season last fall started and the kitchen got left to wait until the season was over.
So this Spring when I knew that I was retiring from the craft show circuit, I decided to devote alot of my time to getting my kitchen done. All the while, working on getting my on-line business up and running. What was I thinking! I only had 38 doors & drawers, 2 lazy susans, 2 appliance garages, a range-hood, shelving, and a micro-wave cabinet to paint, antique and age. At times it has been very overwhemling but I know it will be worth it in the end.
The artist in me wants them to look very professional, so I’ve been putting several light coats of paint on them and letting them dry really good in between coats. So this has taken alot more time than I thought it would, but I’m now about a third of the way finished with painting and have part of the staining done. I’ve had to take some breaks to give my bad knees a break from going up and down the step-ladder. During the breaks, I started working on repainting some of the tiles on the wall. There are tiles on the wall between the upper and lower cabinets with 24 of the tiles having blue flowers on them that just had to go.
Needless to say, we really did not want to remove them, so I decided to repaint them. Off to the craft store I went to get some tile paint and painted them red. There are two cabinets in the corners that have stain-glass panels in them with red flowers; so I’m not sure why they put blue flower tiles on the wall in the first place, but I fixed that problem.
I hope to have the kitchen completely done within a month or so. Be sure to check back and I will have pictures to show what the end result looks like. But in the meantime, here are a few sneak peeks of what I have done.
This is what the cabinets looked liked before I started to paint them and I still have these to work on. I started on one side of the kitchen and am working my way around the room.
This is the shelving that goes above some of the cabinets and is completely done. They have been antiqued with stain but it is not showing up very well in the pictures.
The cabinets doors are done that go back behind the rooster but they have not been hung back up yet.
This is the rangehood and the open shelves that hold my cookbooks. They are all painted and I’m ready to start the antiquing with the stain, but they have to wait for a week or so with the July 4th holiday and a neighborhood garage sale next weekend.
Hope you all enjoyed a peek at my country kitchen redo in progress.
