Kitchen Cabinets

Fixing the kitchen cabinets was one of the biggest things on our minds since day one! Everything in the whole house was sprayed over with a very ugly grey-ish white-ish flat paint, including the kitchen cabinets and their hinges. The doors did not all close properly and the kitchen was just very blaw!! After a few price quotes for new cabinets and hours spent on Pinterest, we decided we would keep the cabinets but paint and add new hardware. 

Here is a picture of the kitchen before we moved in...

One day while Morgen was gone somewhere I was fed up and ready to get going with this cabinet transformation. Did I mention the ugly paint that was sprayed over the hinges was like an inch thick? I could not get the darn cabinet doors off! 

My M.O. is bang it and force it. Morgen's M.O. is let's look up how to do it right on Google. Sometimes banging and forcing is necessary... but not in this instance. Check out the damage I did!! 

And this pic is after properly removing the door.      The trick was to take a small nail and chisel the thick paint off from around the screws and hinge. Then the screws would be unglued and would twist off... Which was very different from shoving a screw driver under the hinge and prying it off! This method still involved some banging, so I was cool with it. My thumbs weren't though! OUCH!

Here I am chiseling! ha ha

 After a couple days of chiseling we had this...

I can not wait until there is green outside my kitchen window again!