Kitchen Update

Sometimes, I think my husband hates me. Example: last month, I decided it was finally time to paint our kitchen cabinets. Now, our kitchen cabinets are in surprisingly good condition, they were just ugly oak, faded and dated. So, they needed a face lift. As well as painting the cabinets, we planned to replace the florescent light fixtures. Here is the before (pardon the messiness):

And here comes the part where I'm pretty sure that Alex hates me. After we took down the plastic cover on the drop ceiling, I wanted to see what was behind the drywall. Because, like always, I had this ideal picture in my head about what we were going to do. This is what happened....

 After, Day 1:

 After tearing down the entire drop ceiling, we had a bit of a freakout (which is understandable). But, while having this freakout, we could already see how much nicer the kitchen was going to look. The cabinet doors are all down and in the garage to be painted. We used Rustoleum Cabinet Transformations in Autumn. It was a lot of work (degloss, two coats of bond paint, glazing and then the top coat). All in all, we thought it teared out well on our test door. It changes the color, but still retains the look of real wood. 

 You can still see the grain.....

More to follow....