First Kitchen Cabinet Painting Mistake & a Clean Garage!

I'm just glad we're painting the cabinets in small sections so it shouldn't take long to go back and fix our error. What happened?

Well, when I bought the red paint, I asked for a tinted primer that would closely match the paint. The lady behind the desk told me that that there wasn't enough room in the can of primer to add enough pigment to get it close to red, but that blue primer would work just as well because red would cover it easily. So I ended up going with blue primer. What I didn't take into account, however, is that we're going to be slightly distressing the panels of our cabinet doors by sanding the edges. When I tried a "test" distress on one of the three cabinet doors that we've worked on, the distressed edges revealed the BLUE primer. I had to sand really hard to get it down to the bare wood, but then the door was distressed more than what I had in mind.

What to do? Fortunately, we only have one coat of red paint on just three of the doors (and the blue primer underneath). My plan is to just go over the red with a coat of the creamy colored off-white paint that we're using on the inside of the cabinets (Homestead Resort Parlor Taupe it's called...it's like an antique white) Then we'll proceed with two or three coats of the red. After that, I'll carefully distress the edges to slightly reveal the off-white paint. Whew! And from here on out, I'm just using WHITE primer on the cabinets, lol. The blue (or any other color) would have been fine if I wasn't going to be "aging" the doors a bit.

Yesterday was a big work day for me here at home. After painting some cabinet shelving, I finally did something that I've been putting off for months and months: I cleaned out the scary garage. Actually, I don't think the garage has ever been completely cleaned out since we moved here 2 1/2 years ago. But it absolutely *had* to be done yesterday and not a day later. When we picked up our boxes of wood flooring on Tuesday, we barely had enough room to stack them at the front of the garage near the doors. The front of the garage was not a good place to keep them because sometimes when it rains really, really hard, water from the driveway seeps under the garage doors. Not a lot, mind you, but if anything is sitting a foot or two from the doors, it may get wet. And our new flooring was stacked a foot from the door...SOOOOO...this is why it was so important to clean out the garage yesterday - we needed to make room for the flooring to be stacked near the back.

It took my about 7 or 8 hours to put things back in order. Not bad! I got rid of tons of stuff, organized hub's tools and supplies, and swept. Now we have a huge workspace when the weather is too wet or cold outside! Why didn't we do this months ago?

We didn't move the boxes of wood flooring...at first. I told hubs we could just move it Friday evening. We knew it was suppose to rain within the next couple of days but we weren't expecting it so soon. At midnight - just a few hours after I declared the garage "clean", it started pouring down rain. At 12:30, I checked the garage doors and sure enough, a little water was starting to make it's way in. I didn't want to take any chances with the flooring, so I woke hubs up and he came out and moved all 32 boxes. I am so glad that I cleaned out the garage when I did or else we would have been in trouble, lol. Talk about good timing!

This weekend, I hope to add the beadboard to the sides of the kitchen cabinets. I'd also like to get some trim around a window or two. We'll just have to see what hubs decides to work on. We're adding hardwired undercabinet lighting, so he may decide to play with electricity tomorrow instead. We shall see!