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We, like many other people who built a ‘stock’ subdivision house in the ’90’s, have the standard oak kitchen cabinets: attempted to pacify myself by adding some stainless hardware to update them, but in my heart, I had always wanted white kitchen cabinets. For years, I had thought about painting them, but I was scared. I knew I couldn’t go back from that if I attempted painting them and ruined them. I did NOT want to have to replace them because as we all know, kitchen cabinets are EXPENSIVE! even the ‘cheap’ ones. Also, I knew I would never hear the end of it from my husband because he thought the cabinets were ‘fine’. I eventually decided if I could talk a friend of ours into spraying the cabinet doors with his paint sprayer, I could handle painting the rest. I ‘researched’ Pinterest for months. I finally decided on putting beadboard on the fronts of the cabinet doors too.
THE PLAN:
I measured all the doors so that I could have my favorite people at Home Depot (I am not getting paid by Home Depot to shop there or say how wonderful they are:) cut the piece of beadboard to the dimensions I needed. I had several measurements for all the different size doors and mapped it out so I would only have to buy two pieces of beadboard. There were a few moments of panic, when I thought I had the beadboard going in a different direction (horizontal instead of vertical) and I did have to make more than one trip to Home Depot. After getting all of the beadboard cut, I glued it to the fronts of the cabinets with construction adhesive but didn’t realize that it would expand. Of course, I didn’t have clamps to clamp the beadboard to the fronts of the cabinets like a very smart person would. LOL. so, I had to improvise.
After gluing the fronts to the cabinets, I sent them with my friend and got to work on the rest of the cabinets:
Yes, I know the kitchen is a mess. I’m a messy DIY’er. I used a satin ‘cabinet’ no drip paint from Home Depot. My friend (whom is smarter than I am) told me he used a water based polyurethane as a top coat to keep them cleaner and help the finish stay nice, and it works like a dream. I applied it to the fronts of the cabinets too.
The final product actually turned out better than I had hoped!
Sorry, the pictures are blurry. I need to start using a real camera, and not my phone:)
Supplies:
-Beadboard
-Cabinet paint
-Adhesive glue
-two weekends
-patience
-Vodka
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