White Cabinets To...White Cabinets and my Snazzy Pantry Door

If you follow me on Facebook, you know I've been in the middle of the ever frustrating painting-cabinet-door project.

I think the most frustrating thing about it, along with the tedious amounts of screws involved (I mean, really?) is the fact that I was painting my white cabinets, well, white.

Here's my kitchen as of a week ago...

So, it's not the worst as far as kitchens go.

I mean, I could do without the blond laminate counters but I deal, you know?

The only 'updates' we've done to this part of the house is adding a valance above the window and some decor items like my utensil containers and backsplash canvases.

Other than that, it was just painting the horrendous lavender it orginally was to the pretty blue.

And the wood floors, which the whole house got.

But those poor, grimy cabinets.

Seriously in sad shape.

I can't do a whole lot about the fact that they're like sixty years old and won't shut anymore.

Well, I could but that would either involve major stripping of like eight coats of paint or new doors.

Neither of which I can do right now.

So I got out some new, scrubbable (that's the key!) Valspar paint and got to work.

I also decided to give the horrible gold hardware a makeover too.

Ick. Gold.

Our house is swallowed in it.

I did the kitchen in sections because it was just less overwhelming that way.

Plus hubby brings his small drill home from work for me in the evenings and it's way easier on my wrist than the hunk of a drill we have at home.

So I would take all the hinges and pulls off in the evening and paint the next day.

Here it is mid-project...

you can see it a lot better in person but the cabinets on the left have been painted.

Can you tell the difference between the yellowed, gross ones on the right?

And the much more beautiful oil rubbed bronze pulls on the left...

It definitely took quite a bit of work...

my back and wrists are not thanking me.

Plus it's kind of discouraging to be painting them the same color...

not a huge, dramatic change.

But the end was TOTALLY worth it.

Check out some before and afters...

Before

(can you say yuck?)

 After

It's subtle, but it's a big difference to us!

Before

After



I usually always use Krylon's ORB paint, but I had a can of Rustoleum's and decided to try it instead.

I have to say, I'm a big fan and think I'll be using it in the future rather than Krylon!

Although Krylon's price is better, it's more black than ORB.

Rustoleum's ORB definitely came out that pretty speckled color :)

And we can't forget the pantry door because it's definitely my favorite part!!

We have bifold doors everywhere and, not only do they hate me, but they're just plain boring.

So after painting the whole thing in the same white paint,

I decided to add a little pop of pattern and color.

Because even pantry doors deserve to be interesting...

I added an Anthropologie knob I had to it,

but I'm not sold on that yet.

We'll see...

And whenever I get tired of it,

I can just paint right over it.

The beauty of paint, huh?

So what do you think?

Worth the time and heat to 'clean it up' a bit??

I'm loving our oil-rubbed bronze hardware now.

I don't have to cringe every time I see the gold anymore :)

(PS- check out my Facebook page to see some fun thrift finds I got today!!)

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