A kitchen redo

We bought this house in September 2010. Its our dream house, bought more for the kids than for us. We can see ourselves growing old in it though with the kids coming to visit, playing with our future grandchildren, retiring here and playing golf outside the front door. We love this house. What we don't love is the kitchen.

Seriously don't love that kitchen. Can you say blaghh. This is the part where you stick out your tongue in disgust. Shiny brass knobs, grainy oak, ugh. I know some of you may like grainy oak and that's ok, it is just not our taste. I'm sure some of you like brass, again, not our taste. That black granite can stay though. Its too expensive to replace granite and I said before that I have to be frugal. So off I went to HD and Lowe's and finally to True Value to look at paint chips. I settled on Winter White from Benjamin Moore in semi-gloss.

Next came the hubby's excitement and got carried away and took all the cabinet doors off before I could put the kids to bed. The can of primer sat on the counter and he says, "when you gonna sand'em?". Uh, could he be any more eager for ME to get this project started? I think not.

Had to clean the cabinets, sand the cabinets, wipem down again. You can't paint with sand grit on the cabinets. Then the priming. For the cabinets that stay in the house I can to paint them by hand. The doors are the only thing I could take outside to paint with a sprayer. I probably should have painted the inside one with the sprayer but I'm too lazy and didn't want to tape everything off.

Here's how it looks with a coat of primer on it.

That's feeling so much brighter and lighter in here. I can see where it is starting to go. It will get better I promise. Keep watching.

I did pick up some satin nickel hardware to replace the ugly brass.

The temperatures are supposed to cooperate this week so I'm hoping to get outside to paint those doors so I can gettem re-hung. Keep your fingers crossed!