[Article] Article: home part two: kitchin fixins
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Welcome to another episdoe of This Mediocre House
with your useless host, fly
So April and I have lived in this house for over five years. In that time, she has slapped on quite a bit of paint. We've filled it with lots of shit. And we've shit and banged on every surface in the place. But outside of that, we haven't really *done* anything to it. That's changing.
In Part One, we addressed some of the issues in our closet. Namely the crappy, contractor carpet and the nasty, marred up, white walls. We put in new flooring, baseboards, lights, and a fresh coat of paint. The results looked pretty good.
Fresh off the excitement from that project, we embarked on another. The kitchen. Unfortunately, our budget does not include the ability to go out and buy fancy new cabinets. So for now, we're just going to freshen them up. This calls for reinforcements. My mom does painting, interior decorating, and all sorts of home shit. Since she was only a $200 flight away, it seemed like a good investment in time. The project took an entire week, so we also got to spend some good quality time together. Not something we get a lot of these days.
Before we started, here's what it looked like. BOOOOORING
Let's get to work! April, my mom, and myself broke the jobs up. The first part was all me. I wanted to add some depth to the cabinets. Make them not look so boxy. So I grabbed something like 200' of 2" molding from Home Depot. The stuff was dirt cheap, sweet! I attached it to the cabinets with construction adhesive. Even without anything else, this made them look a LOT nicer, but we couldn't stop there...
The cabinets required quite a bit of painting. I hate to paint, so that was left up to April and my mom. We started with a tinted primer. This was some special primer from Lowes. The shit stuck amazingly well. It required NO sanding!
Wait, did you notice that? Go look at the first picture again. The walls are now yellow too. Ape was in beast mode. Then they started painting the cabinets. This was a long process. Again it took almost a week to do. The cabinets got three coats of paint on top of the primer. This is the final color on some of the cabinets. These were taken with a cell phone; its really not as purple as it looks.
You can see the greyish color better in this pic:
The torch was passed back to me for the finishing touches. We got some really cool pulls from Cool Knobs and Pulls. Thanks for the suggestion @kiwi!
It's obviously not done. Since we're doing it ourselves, it can be a slow process to fit it in with everything else in life, but we're trying. Next go around, I'd like to learn to pour my own concrete counter tops. I'd also like to rearrange the placement of the islands. And the tile floor. And... Some day...
OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG , THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I WOULD HAVE TOLD YOU GUYS TO DO, TOO!! People really need to look at the anatomy of a painted cabinet!! Adding molding to flat, boring cabinets, then painting + new hardware is all most people need to do to "redo" their kitchen most of the time! I swear people can be clueless with this stuff, not realizing how friggin easy it is to "revamp" your shizz. This inspires me to an article on the stairs redo I did here.
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I willl. I'm up to my head follicules in going thru all my clothes, preparing & listing on Ebay. It's almost a full time job. Fck thissss. And I have a party Weds at my house to prepare for. Life, Buh. But, I took lots of pics of the stairs as I did them, so that's all cool .Yayyy
Are you selling any bags?
I just sold my Ralph Lauren crossbody. I never used it!
The rest of my bags....I dunno. The big bags that I no longer carry, my younger sister has claimed and I don't care about that. So, just clothes & shoes!!
I've seen them a lot, too. The thing is, even though I've seen them a lot, I never tire of them.
right? like, I love them, but I'm probably biased because of that
for realsies, though, the kitchen looks fab!
right? like, I love them, but I'm probably biased because of that
for realsies, though, the kitchen looks fab!
CKP has some really cheap and nice pulls. I think all those pulls cost us less than $200.