Kitchen painting 101

Four years ago I started resurrecting the kitchen. What was supposed to be a "get it finished NOW" project has become a long term and "work on it when I feel like" project. Well this weekend I felt like it. We have a 3-day weekend at work and it's slow this month so I picked up today to take off as well making it a 4-day weekend for me. Time to start working on the lower cabinets and actually FINISH the sink side of the kitchen. Click here and scroll down to see other cabinets finished a while ago.

After much thought, I decided to keep the lower cabinets solid and suddenly the entire project felt much more manageable. Here's what I've done so far. Stay tuned. More to come between now and Tuesday when I go back to work.

The drawers were finished ages ago. The mosaic work on the top drawer is my work made with found glass tiles from Scraps in San Francisco. Check Scraps out here. Fabulous place. The cabinet on the end will be stained to so the drawers will really POP.

Work in progress. Oven is new. Drawer beneath oven needs to be primed, painted, and stained. This gives you a good idea though of how dark this kitchen was.

Beneath the sink. Interior of the one door has not been primed and painted yet though the other side was. This is a good example of how hit and miss this project has been. Don is out running errands and when he returns I'll have a 1 inch brush so I can be sure to get all the detail work finished this weekend as well. So stay tuned. I'm feeling very motivated.

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UPDATE - It's Saturday afternoon and I've finished all that I plan to do today. I may prime one last drawer under the oven but that's about it.