Painted Kitchen Cabinets

The kitchen cabinets are painted and ready to go! Just in time - the Silestone counters are being installed tomorrow!

We used Rustoleum's Cabinet Transformations (in Pure White) kit after much debate. Actually, I went to Home Depot after deciding not to buy the Cabinet Transformations to get TSP and primer and the guy basically bullied me into buying the kit. My thoughts: It is easy to work with and looks great. But it is NOT brush stroke free. And it definitely took 5 coats of paint to cover well. It took two small kits worth of paint (our HD only sells small kits) and only 1/2 a kit worth of the other supplies. So I felt very wasteful. I think if you like the look of glazed cabinets - which this kit includes the steps for - it's worth the cost of the kit. I personally don't prefer the glazed cabinet look - I went pure white in order to get our white appliances to blend in - and opted out of that step, and think that some primer and cabinet enamel at my local hardware store would have done the job. Meredith and Kristal both have great recommendations.

One of these days I'll get my shizz together and take pictures during daylight hours again.

But anyway - back to the cabinets themselves. I was loathing our kitchen. I know that's silly - we had a kitchen. Was it my dream kitchen? No, but it was fully functional, everything was relatively new and working. But the red-brown cabinets were not our style, and with very little natural light streaming into the kitchen it felt dark and depressing.  And now? I seriously just feel like smiling when I walk into the room. Walking down the stairs I see a bright white kitchen. Laying on the couch I see a bright white kitchen. No more black hole on the North side of our house. It's wonderful.

We'll install hardware on the bottom drawers and cabinets once the countertops are installed. Then the backsplash. I can't wait - more pictures when the counter tops are here!