OK, so... you know I have now moved on to the kitchen. Mmm hmm, I am a painting maniac each night after my grown up job day ends.No kidding, I am up till at least 11:00 painting and adjusting and tweaking things... I am priming and painting all of my cabinets white* (Edited to add: *Behr Brand Ultra Pure White in eggshell enamel) and antiquing them in a burnt umber. I don't have a huge kitchen, so it's not too over whelming of a job. (Who am I kidding? It feels like it's taking for-evah!) My cupboards currently are the standard Oak cupboards we all wanted desperately in 1987 (for those of you that were grown ups in 1987...)
Here is the "before" picture of the side of the kitchen counter that faces the nook. (*yawn*) Pretty boring. This is what I have been working on for several long nights...priming, painting, antiquing...oh, but it's amazing what you can do with a little imagination, and plenty of determination.
I am also attempting to add some architectural detail along the way. I found these corbels at....oh, of course, you know where... TJ Maxx , where else? (I swear you can find anything you need there!) and they were really meant to hang on the wall as knick knacks I guess, but no matter. The "real" corbels I found on-line where ridiculously expensive, and these were $8.99 each!
I primed them, and hung them with nails and glue to the front of my kind of boring L-shaped cupboard. Then I added the molding frame. Here's the cool part. You don't even have to know how to miter the molding, you buy the pieces already assembled at Lowe's!
Next, I primed and painted the cabinet, and antiqued it. I added the pieces of molding once the main cabinet was painted and antiqued. Voila! Looks like a million bucks, huh? All for a mere $32....
I am so happy with the results that I kinda hate to move the kitchen nook table back to block it partially from view!
One section down, 7 to go. Then, I would like to figure out something good, but incredibly inexpensive to do about my 1966 Formica counter tops....now, there's a real challenge.
