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Kitcheny Shtuff
Dec. 28th, 2015 11:53 pmMy parents left tonight, so I have a bit more time to post (though I still have 15 pages to catch up with my reading!)
The biggest house project my bf and I have been working on is re-painting the kitchen. This was the kitchen before:
Very peach and green. Aka UGLY!
We started by taking off all the cabinet drawers, painting the bases of the cabinets. They already had a 3/4 full can of paint in the garage in a nice whitish color, so we saved money, and used that (or at least, we thought we saved money - I had to go buy more so that I can finish the project).
Once we painted all the cabinet bases, this is what it looked like. A marked improvement!
The next project was to redo the counters. I know I want to redo the entire kitchen (and probably dining area) in a year or two when I have money. But since I don't have money right now, I looked on Pinterest, and found some tutorials about painting laminate counters to look like marble. So I did! I mixed some of the things from the tutorials. I used two coats of Killz primer, and then used three shades of gray acrylic paint, which I drew on with the tip of a goose feather, and softened with a softening brush. Then I did two coats of a polyurethane as my finish. Unfortunately, the first coat took absolutely forever to dry (the can said two hours - at 10 hours, I gave up and started to use a heat gun) and we wound up making a couple of blemishes in the surface. I think I wound up mostly successfully masking them.
While I love the look, to be honest, it is definitely not durable. We've already noticed some bubbles near the sink (though they did seem to go away overnight), a couple dings from the dish rack, and a random transfer of some sort of text from some paper that refuses to come off. And that was all even after letting it completely cure for at least 3-4 days. But again, I still love the look! My parents said that if they hadn't known I had painted it, they would have thought it was marble.
I also painted the shelves the night before my parents arrived.
This is where my project currently stands. I hope to get the drawers painted tomorrow, since it's been a real pain not having any! After that, I still need to paint the walls, and the cabinet doors. Then the kitchen will be done! I'm hoping I can get all that done by this weekend, but so far, everything we've tried has taken way longer than expected.
More project posts to come!
The biggest house project my bf and I have been working on is re-painting the kitchen. This was the kitchen before:
Very peach and green. Aka UGLY!
We started by taking off all the cabinet drawers, painting the bases of the cabinets. They already had a 3/4 full can of paint in the garage in a nice whitish color, so we saved money, and used that (or at least, we thought we saved money - I had to go buy more so that I can finish the project).
Once we painted all the cabinet bases, this is what it looked like. A marked improvement!
The next project was to redo the counters. I know I want to redo the entire kitchen (and probably dining area) in a year or two when I have money. But since I don't have money right now, I looked on Pinterest, and found some tutorials about painting laminate counters to look like marble. So I did! I mixed some of the things from the tutorials. I used two coats of Killz primer, and then used three shades of gray acrylic paint, which I drew on with the tip of a goose feather, and softened with a softening brush. Then I did two coats of a polyurethane as my finish. Unfortunately, the first coat took absolutely forever to dry (the can said two hours - at 10 hours, I gave up and started to use a heat gun) and we wound up making a couple of blemishes in the surface. I think I wound up mostly successfully masking them.
While I love the look, to be honest, it is definitely not durable. We've already noticed some bubbles near the sink (though they did seem to go away overnight), a couple dings from the dish rack, and a random transfer of some sort of text from some paper that refuses to come off. And that was all even after letting it completely cure for at least 3-4 days. But again, I still love the look! My parents said that if they hadn't known I had painted it, they would have thought it was marble.
I also painted the shelves the night before my parents arrived.
This is where my project currently stands. I hope to get the drawers painted tomorrow, since it's been a real pain not having any! After that, I still need to paint the walls, and the cabinet doors. Then the kitchen will be done! I'm hoping I can get all that done by this weekend, but so far, everything we've tried has taken way longer than expected.
More project posts to come!