Kitchen Cabinet Makeover/ Painting our Kitchen Cabinets

When we purchased our house we knew before the offer was in that we wanted to do some updates to the kitchen: Paint the cabinets white, change the hardware, get new appliances and install a backsplash. We budgeted the money to do these projects and planned to get started on them as soon as majority of the boxes were unpacked. One thing we learned with our first home is the longer you wait to get started on a home project the less likely it will actually get done.

So about a month after we moved in, maybe a bit more we had some local companies come out and give us quotes for ONLY painting the cabinets white. You would not believe these quotes, we were in complete shock. After getting these quotes going all the way up to $7000, for yes only paint and nothing else we realized this was a project we should probably take on ourselves.

I had several friends who had used the Rustoleom kit to redo their kitchen cabinets and they had recommended it to us so I started researching and watching videos. I felt pretty confident this needed to be our route. Here are the before pictures of our kitchen, from the listing.

As you can see there was nothing wrong with the kitchen it was just not our style. The whole kitchen, with the floors was just too much orange tone wood for us. We knew how much just simply painting the cabinets would change and brighten up the space. We also had the exact same granite in our last house with white cabinets so we knew it would work.

For the actual process of painting the cabinets I filmed the process along the way, the video is below at the bottom of the post so you can get a better idea of the steps.

Part of the reason we were hesitant to take on this project originally is because we were afraid it was going to take weeks and weeks. However we were pleasantly surprised that it did not, we committed to cranking it out as fast as possible with everything else we had going on. We spent about a week and a half total painting and split it up between the upper cabinet and the bottom cabinets. The use of a paint sprayer also was a time saver and gave a really nice to the cabinets. Here are the after pictures:

We are so happy with how the cabinets came out and that it only end up costing us a couple hundred dollars to do the work rather then thousands. Next we will be installing the backsplash, changing out the light fixture, and the sink faucet, we will be having someone else do this work for us. Then lastly we would like to replace the appliances with stainless steal. I will come back with updates and show you the progress along the way.

Watch the Full Tutorial and Process Here: 

Sources: 

Get Rustoleum kit- here
** We used the color Linen for our cabinets

Get Paint Sprayer- here

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Get Cabinet Drawer Pulls here (12 pack): http://amzn.to/2B9WmON

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