Thursday, January 21, 2010 We promised to show you our screw up.....
....and here it is! So our house is "mostly" renovated. I use quotes because the most difficult parts are not renovated. The kitchen, all the bathrooms and the 1400 sqft basement need work, and a lot of it. We don't exactly posess the spend to just "get it over with", so we decided to start with the kitchen, and just spruce it up a bit.
Our plan is simple:
- Paint the walls white
- Paint the backsplash white
- Lay down some wood floors
- Change out the hardware
- Start buying new appliances, bit by bit
We went to Home Depot to pick out some stark white paint. Simple, right? Well believe it or not finding white paint was rather difficult. We had a hard time figuring out what everything meant, so we just bought two tins of the whitest white we could find, and we got painting.
You can see from the photos above the dull yellow icky-ness needed to be dealt with pronto, and resurfacing with white made the kitchen look and feel brighter. We painted EVERYTHING from the ceiling to cabinets, to backsplash to walls three times. Joey even made me a nice little shelf from scratch. We felt good, like weekend warriors. Then while sitting in traffic on my way home from work that Monday it hit me. We painted the ENTIRE kitchen matte white. You know, matte, the kind of paint everything sticks to! The kind that's hard to clean. The kind of paint you never paint your trimmings or KITCHEN! Hence, we need to redo everything before we lay down the floors or do anything else.
We just wanted to share what NOT to do and hope you can learn from our little mess up! Oh well, a few more tubs of paint and another weekend of work is a fair enough price to pay for such a blooper.
Reader Comments (2)
You can fix this by painting a coat of non-yellowing polyurathane over the cabinets. Do it in sections, and it will be painless. How do I know? Because I did the same exact thing. Clear poly is a lot more forgiving to brush on than paint, so it really is not as bad as you think.
@Sami - thanks for the tip! We hate to trash perfectly good cabinets when we can pretty them up!