Let’s Get Cookin’!
It’s finally here folks! I’m finally redoing the kitchen! The hideous kitchen!! Say goodbye to the off-white walls painted to match the “bisque” colored appliances! The bright white cupboard doors that clash horrendously! The bland kitchen that is miserable to cook in will be beautiful!
It’s going to be a total overhaul on the cheap. I’m repainting just about everything: hinges, curtain rods, walls, cabinets, cabinet doors, and the ceramic tile backsplash! YES! The ceramic tile backsplash!! Well, hopefully. More on that later.
My uncle, the house’s former owner, was here semi-recently and laid down a new laminate tile kitchen floor. Unfortunately, I find the tile pattern unattractive, but it’s shiny and new and we’re going with it!
Also unfortunate, the curtains and countertops are both a country blue that I find limiting. But the curtains are relatively new, and they’re thermal lined so they weren’t cheap… So the curtains stay! And since the curtains have to stay, I didn’t see the point in redoing the countertops.
In addition to a load of paint, I’m buying a working dishwasher!! I’m also buying a hood for above the range, since oddly… There isn’t one. My dad is coming up this weekend, and he’s going to help me get everything installed.
Also odd, the kitchen doesn’t have any base molding… Weird, right? So I have to buy that as well. Since I have to buy a dishwasher, hood, and base molding, I’m keeping everything else low cost. All that really means is that I have to work two or three times harder… Darn elbow grease is cheap, but time consuming.
So far I’ve removed all the cabinet doors and drawers… removed all 37 hinges… taken off all the hardware… sanded the cabinet facing… sanded the walls… puttied the holes… and moved everything away from the walls. The last paint job is a bit sad… There are a lot of paint drips and clumps that needed to be sanded down. The walls obviously weren’t prepped well. Speaking of that, always prep your walls, people! Walls must be washed before you paint or the paint won’t adhere correctly!
Updates as we go, folks! I’m pumped!


