Tuesday, June 7, 2011 The Kitchen is Brining Us Down - Again.
Mornin' Lovlies! Having fun in the sun? It's been beautiful, we can't help but have a smile on our face and find excuses to spend more time outsite the past few days. So much time Porkchop got a little friend he brought home with him. We didn't approve, so we kicked him out stat. A tick does not belong in our home. Poor pup, he has a tiny scab where the tick was trying to dig into him. El groso for sure. Want to know about something else gross? Our kitchen!
You are totally jealous of our first ever invented dishwasher. We can tell. We have heard so many times that the kitchen sells the house. What were we thinking when we bought this place? The kitchen is the worst part of the home, the most expensive to fix, and used the most (except the living room). One of the first things we did, way back when, was paint the cabinets. Major fail. We used matte paint. Don't do that. You'll have a heck of a time cleaning them if you do. We also covered up the horrid plastic stick on floors with a quick Ikea fix, which has served well as a long-term-temp.
Then, Home Depot was having a promotion to have someone come over and check out your kitch to see what it would cost to resurface your preexisting cabinets. Sounded like something we needed, so we said "sure". So a nice gentleman stopped by a few days later and we went over our options, and for the cheapest resurface (remember, these are not new!) it would cost....get this....TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS. Um.....no thank you. It cost that much to have someone paint the ouside of our whole house.
So back to the drawing board. Think. Think. Think.
See those grooves? Those are super 50's. I think that's that last time someone updated this kitchen. Sinse we aren't going 50s, the grooves have got to go. So, Joey had an idea.
He told me to take those bad boy's off the hinges, he wanted to fill them in with wood putty, then repaint them....He was thinking. The kind of thinking I like a lot. A bit of love and labor can save you a ton.
So after some brainstorming of what we could DIY, here is what we cam up with.
- Wood countertops from Ikea
- Pulls from Home Depot
- DIY Cabinets, resurfaced
- New Farmhouse sink
....and we will call it a day for now. Unless of course you lovely people think those yellow counter tops are just too amazing to let go of.... :)
We will keep you posted and show you how the cabinets turned out, and share the (hopefully!) successful story of how to DIY this yourself and keep your 10K! We will also walk through the backsplash replacement, and counter installation. Also if we invent a magic want to make this archaic stove go away, we will share that too!
Reader Comments (4)
i cant wait to see how it turns out... I just finished choosing laminates for my new kitchen, study, laundry, en-suite and dresser. I cant wait until mines finished I bet you have an anxious wait too.
yes we do! it breaks my heart every time i walk in there. it's like being in the place place in the world, then walking through a door into a dump.
Ooh, I'm so excited to see how the kitchen turns out! I think it's funny that you mentioned the people that walk around Home Depot asking if you are happy with your cabinets...they always approach me and I tell them my cabinets were the only nice thing in my kitchen worth keeping! Now if I could just afford to have a dishwasher installed, I've been told it will be very expensive just to have the hook-ups installed. I guess I'll have to face another summer of sweating over a sink full of dishes in 90-100 degree weather. Booo.
@melinda we must replace ours, pronto! it's killing me! we will let you know how it goes - we plan to do it ourselves. cross fingers we don't flood the kitchen - again.