This is what our kitchen looked like when we bought the house. Not much has changed in three years except for the appliances, range hood and wall color.
The time has come to upgrade – make it “ours”. We started with the cabinets. After removing doors and hardware, equipped with our Dremel Multi-Max, we sanded. And sanded. And sanded.
We applied primer with our paint sprayer (Rockler) and brushed the paint on using our Purdy paintbrush.
See the full tutorial at
Now they’re no longer ‘orange’ toned red oak…
Next step is countertops. We’re going with granite. I wanted soapstone but the kitchen is Mr. DIY’s domain. Soapstone is durable but easily scratched and high maintenance. Luckily, we’ve found a slab of granite that is dark gray with white veins very similar to soapstone.
Not too much DIY with the countertops other than demolition/removal of old laminate but more updates coming soon!
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There is still time to enter but hurry!
There will be one winner.
Announced on January 31st
Enter the DIY Club monthly contest with your DIY project utilizing one or more of these projects and you could win!
Enter the DIY Club monthly contest with your DIY project utilizing one or more of these projects and you could win!
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You can enter our conpetition with any Purdy product.
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They have over 15,000 products to choose from, giving a wide variety of options.
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You can purchase from a variety of stores. Any Gorilla Glue product qualifies as an entry.
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You can use any size of DISChanger. You can order right from here-just click on the button in the affiliate area, over on the side bar. We appreciate all orders placed through our site, as it helps to keep our site up and running.
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You can visit a variety of craft stores or their website to purchase products.
An Americana primary sampler set and a Mediums sampler set…
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is a NO VOC paint. It is a great resource that is safe for you and your family and pets but it is also great for our environment.
Oh, I am so painting my cabinets this Spring. Wow, they look awesome! Love the granite you picked out, as well. Can't wait to see the reveal!
~Michelle
xo
P.s… Looks like I need to check out the DIY monthly projects.
You've inspired me to see if our cabinets are paintable instead of replacing them! That would save us so much money if we were to go that route. We also want white cabinets instead of our orange oak! Amazing job with your cabinets, it looks like a comletely different space, can't wait to see the finished product with the granite, we're just now pricing out slabs and deciding on colors!
The paint looks great! Can't wait to see the granite up!!
I love it all! Very nice!
You did a great job!
Those cabinets look awesome!!
It looks fabulous. I hope to get this done too this spring. I have a couple of question. Why did you not just spray the top coat? How did you keep the labels on the door once you started painting? What shade of white did you end up using? It's making me nuts.
Amazing! Can't wait to see the granite! laura
Love the Soapstone looking granite and can't wait to see it…what is it called???