Painting the Kitchen Cabinets

We got some paint the other day, for my kitchen cabinets. The lower cabinets that were by the garage door are now at the other end of the kitchen, what was meant as the “eat in kitchen/dinning room” area originally when the house was built in 1997 (not by us, but by the builder, we just bought the house after it was being built already).

The cabinet section is free standing, and won’t be installed until we do a few more things. But I can get it ready and that has begun. For no reason we got Glidden paint, just that we were in a store that had paint and a color we liked and that was the brand on the color chart … it’s very much like the Corian color that I have liked when I’ve looked at samples … that is “Butter Cream” … Glidden color is “Vanilla Cream”. It’s butter colored. I checked that out. Slice into the butter I have, and that slice is the same color. A very nice soft creamy yellow.

I have done most of the painting on the piece of cabinet, but have one or two more coats to do to the outside part, and I also need to do the doors and drawer fronts. I have painted the inside of the cabinets too, that is some job! But what I want. I cannot imagine anyone else doing this unless they were doing it for themselves. I wanted nice smooth insides, since it’s all lumber type cabinet, not the stuff that companies like KraftMaid, etc. make. This is rustic real made on side basic cabinetry. We hope to make some more of it to fill out the design we’ve come up with. It will be easier painting those from the start, before being put all together. 🙂

The cabinets we have were White Paint, with White knobs. I’ve picked out a style for new hardware, and it’s something I have to order online, as no store seems to have it, and it’s all special order and at high prices. Online I have found it for much less. It’s a simple style of hinges, drawer pulls, and knobs, a weathered wrought iron look. I wasn’t sure of what to do before I moved my “bakers rack” into the kitchen from our dinning area (what used to be the living room). We had space due to taking the upper cabinet section out where the stove originally was. That space on the floor was vacated by the Fridge, which was there after the stove was there. We moved that fridge to the other end of the kitchen, then just last week moved it to a whole ‘nother spot. Doing that baker rack move, I realized how much I love that piece, and that’s when it hit me, it’s the wood and metal. The metal is right. It’s dark banged up looking wrought iron … ah, same as on my Foley-Martens Butcher Block rolling Island’s hardware, and the coffee table we have that has wicker baskets and that similar banged up wrought iron edges and I love Art’s and Craft style … dark knobs and hinges. I started to look online after not seeing anything in HD that I liked at all. Most there is light and shiny.

I found it online when looking at a manufacturer that HD’s website said they had product from. That manufacturer has lots of styles and I found the stuff I liked, and then had to search online for good pricing. I found a few places and should be placing an order (or orders) tomorrow for enough to deck out this one piece of cabinet to start with.

It’ll look great on the Vanilla Cream cabinets, hopefully. All will be changed to be like that sooner than later, and then new counter tops … I’m not sure what, but something dark. Cheap as can be, of course, so it can’t be stone, or corian-like stuff. Must be something cheaper. 🙁 But that’s alright.

So I’m busy getting paint in my hair. I’m happy painting cabinets, it’s fun. It’s lots of fun. 😆

The wall in here need to be painted before long, and they are yellow and so sooner than later for this is a must. It clashes with the Vanilla Cream. So that’s something else to make a decision on, wall color. Think, think, think. I do better visually. I just go into the store and look at paint colors on the little cards. The right thing hits me right between the eyes every time, so that’s what I have to do. 🙂