I'm so excited about this post!!! For about a year now I've been trying to gather the guts needed to paint my wood cabinetry in my kitchen. Every time I'd get close to doing it something would change my mind....... well after long consideration I finally decided to makeover my kitchen island:) Thanks to pinterest I realized that I could paint my kitchen Island one "color" and just leave the rest of my cabinetry for later ( give me more time to get the nerve to do it!) So I wanted to share this with you guys !!
p.s. please note that I tend to take shortcuts and experiment A LOT lol ....... My "recipe" is almost never done the same way twice;)
So the wheels in my mind started turning rite after the Angel Sale when I bought a coffee table that I fell in love with! A big plus was finding out that it was Aunt Ronda who had "revamped" this piece which meant I could get a really good tutorial right?? :) When I brought it home and got it in place I knew this was the exact style I wanted!!! It was bright and had a little hint of aged beauty!! Here's a peek at it........
Cozy right?? Kaiden seems to think so:) He was sound asleep :)
So here's what we started with.............
Not so bad right?? But my mission is to brighten things up a bit:)
Off I went to Lowe's while leaving the sanding to my old reliable:) ( Rusty, as if you all didn't know right?) He actually started out being my assistant sander but due to the rapidly growing anger i felt while sanding he decided to just do it for me!!! i was fine with it of course;)
I bought a slightly different color from the coffee table and some "wiping" stain and got to it....
Okay so maybe you guys noticed that the stain in the above pic isn't a "wiping" stain............
I sort of had to improvise........ (told you I like to experiment;)
That tiny little can of stain actually has a great little story.... It's one of those things that "certain" husbands probably get fussed at when they say "keep it, you never know we may need it" Guilty as charged girls!! I was that wife .....
I learned that my wiping stain was an epic fail.....because i bought mahogany stain...... everybody knows mahogany is red-ish right???? I'm not sure how i messed that up, but any who I did!! so unwilling to return to Lowe's I start thinking...... I'll bet I can just "wipe" regular stain on my cabinetry and all will be fine........now I just needed some stain....Rusty reminded me of that little can of stain that was bought over three years ago to repair a drawer in the first home we bought together:)...... I tried it and it WORKED!!!!! I'm in love with how the island turned out and even my kiddos are still making comments of how much brighter things are looking in the house!!! Now that I've started with this not so small project and completed it I can sort of see a few other things I'd like to change..... starting with my deep red wall...... I think I want it almost as light as the island!!!! I'm going to share a few---- who am I kidding, it'll be a lot of photos!!
I hope you like the transformation as much as we do!!!
With the new color added!!
Starting the sanding to give it that aged beauty I was talking about earlier!!
Sanding is sort of tedious but well worth it!!
The above pic shows the deeper colors the rest sort of look a bit white to me.....
Oh how I wish I had taken a before pic of this angle:(
Please disregard the mess and take focus on the sleeping baby in the background;) I guess this is what pinterest won't show you lol
Before...........
After!!!!
Before........
After!!!!!!!!
I LOVE IT!!! CAN'T WAIT TO PAINT THAT WALL! .....I REALIZE I'LL REGRET SAYING THAT FOR A BIT:)
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