We were gone most of the day today but I did manage to paint the final coat on the shelves and another coat on four doors. The shelves are ready for their wallpaper liner now! Not much else was done today, but I had promised the girls a trip to the library and I had a date tonight with hubs... a movie (at the theatre...wow!) and coffee at a bookstore. It was really nice - and a much needed break from the house!
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Wow - I almost forgot to post today. I'm heading to bed now but just wanted to say that I now have three coats of red paint on the cabinets and we put on another coat on the four of the doors and all the shelves. The shelves just need another coat on one side and they will be ready to be lined and installed.
Hubs and I were going to clean/degrease and then sand the remaining doors while watching a movie this evening, but I ran out of degreaser on the first door...grrr! I have to stress the importance of thoroughly cleaning your cabinets and doors before painting them. Our oak cabinets *looked* nice and shiny and clean, that is, until we sprayed them with degreaser. When I cleaned the base cabinets two or three weeks ago, I sprayed tons of degreaser on and let it just sit for a minute. It was so gross watching what started to stream down the cabinet and puddle on the floor. Just yellowish brown...grease and dirt I guess! I'd scrub it down and then spray again and the same thing would happen. I just kept doing this until the stream ran clear. I don't know how the people who lived here before us cooked, but the only thing we every fry once in a while is bacon or sausage, and that's maybe twice a month at the most. Where'd all that grease come from? Eww! Like I said, our cabinets looked clean...I guess oak hides dirt pretty well!
I think it takes just as long, if not longer, to prep everything for painting than it does to actually paint. I'm not looking forward to cleaning the rest of those doors, lol!
Tomorrow I plan on putting the fourth and final coat of red paint on the upper and lower cabinets and the final coat on the shelves and another coat on the four doors we're working on, and lastly, I need to set up a bigger workspace in the garage so that when the rest of the cabinet doors are cleaned and sanded, we can work on primiing and painting them. I need to pick up more degreaser, too.
I'll take some pics tomorrow...
As I mentioned yesterday, much of my day today was spent at the girls' school, and then this evening I was there again for their annual art show...Sooo, I didn't get tons of work done today. I did get another coat on the shelves and doors though.
I'm going to need to pick up another gallon of red paint. I'm going through it fast!
Another day glued to my cabinets:) I got the second coat of red on the top and bottom cabinets and the first coat of red on four doors. All of the shelves have received two coats of red.
I can see that one of my biggest challenges is going to be finding space to work on all the doors. Currently, both our island and dining table are our only work surfaces. The table holds the shelves, the island has enough room for four doors. The paint dries to the touch within an hour, but not dry enough to turn the doors over and start on the other side. It looks like I'll be doing just one side a day (and remember, I'm doin four coats...) So I'm still trying to figure out the logistics of it all. More than likely, I'll probably set up some sort of work area in the garage so that I can do a side on all the doors each day. After a couple more coats are on the shelves, I can move them off the kitchen table and put a few more doors on their. The kids don't mind eating in the living room:)
Another thing that is driving me bonkers is trying to paint in both horizontal and vertical directions on the top and bottom cabinets. It's been a nightmare trying to paint in such a way that brush strokes don't show. Plus, if you start to overwork the paint at the corner or if the brush isn't wet enough, the brush just drags across the paint leaving hideous...drag marks. You have to work really quickly, especially when it's relatively warm inside, because the paint starts to dry pretty fast and can start going gooky on you. If I were a cursing girl, my cabinets would have heard an earful today.
Before I put the second coat on the cabinets, I went through and distressed the edges. I'll do this between each coat so that I don't have four coats of paint to sand through...(click to enlarge)
Here is what the cabinets look like with their second coat of paint:
A shot of what our doors look like:
So, that's it for today. Tomorrow I have a meeting at school and then an art show/exhibit at the school, so I probably won't be spending too much time on the cabinets tomorrow. I'll probably at least put another coat on the shelves and flip those doors for another coat:) Another thing I plan on doing tomorrow is cleaning and sanding down more doors and have them ready for priming...
Happy Thursday, everyone!
I.am.whooped.
Today was nonstop, and not just with painting. I dropped Zoe off at a friend's house around 8am and then zoomed to Wally Word to pick up a cake, which I then had to take over to the girls' school and deliver to the teacher's lounge(it's Teacher Appreciation week, btw:).
After I got settled back at home, I slapped another coat of primer on the cabinet shelves (which have all been removed from the cabinets) and added basecoat to one side of four cabinet doors. Then I spent a good deal of time taping off the inner edges of the cabinets because the insides are to stay off-white...I didn't want to get any red paint in there. Later after I picked the girls up from school, I began adding the first coat of RED to all the cabinets and shelves. I had to get to a stopping place at one point so that I could watch the girls perform a little play in the backyard. They made cute little paper puppets on popcicle sticks and everything...so cute:) After I got their autographs,lol, I returned to painting. I wanted to get everything first coated with red by the days end...That doesn't seem like much but what a challenge it was! It's amazing how much one has to multitask when working on projects while caring for children. I'm pretty sure I was painting, giving the kids their bath, and making dinner all at the same time. After dinner, I cleaned the kitchen, gave out spelling words, ran a load of laundry...and probably painted something.
When the girls had their story and were properly tucked in, I came back to the kitchen to add another coat of red paint to the shelves. By 10pm, everything had been covered in at least one coat! Yay for me! *clap clap* (Can you tell I'm a mother of young children?)
One coat of red paint down...just three more to go!
Here is what the cabinets look like with one coat of red paint (click to enlarge):
Here is a comparison of the one finished cabinet (on the left) to the rest of the cabinets that only have one coat:
Plugging away here still. Painting, painting, painting....and more painting. These kitchen cabinets may very well be the death of me:-O
I wanted to post this yesterday, but I was too busy (what else?) painting, but I've given myself a deadline to get this cabinet project finished up. By June 1st (of this year, not next) my goal is to be finished with the kitchen cabinets entirely. That means cabinets will be painted, distressed, waxed, shelves installed and lined, doors and handles put back on, the whole sha-bang.
For the rest of the month, I'll post my daily progress. It's won't be exciting, lol, but it will be progress none-the-less.
Yesterday, I added the last layer of basecoat to the insides of the cabinets. That's FINISHED except for the bottom corner cabinet...hubs needs to uninstall the lazy susan before I can paint in there.
Here are a few shots of the basecoat color, "Homestead Resort Parlor Taupe" (American Tradition) applied to both the insides and outsides of our cabinets. I posted the 'before' photo for comparison... (click to enlarge):
Before:
Moulding and basecoat added:
I put the basecoat on the backs of four doors and also cleaned, sanded, and put the first coat of primer on the remaining six shelves.
Allllll righty then...tonight I'll post today's progress. Better get hoppin'!
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