KITCHEN CABINET REDO

HELLO STRANGERS!!!!!

This is the first post I’ve sent out in what seems like forever!! Life has been hectic and sad and happy and crazy!

Holidays, birthdays, high school graduations, sending the baby of the house off to college are just a few of the happenings in our house in the last year.

Needless to say, no home improvement projects have been done in our house recently.

If you know me at all, you know I’m always looking at homes for sale. I love watching the housing market for great deals. Now, the LOML would not want to move in a million years but I can still dream can’t I?

I found a beautiful house that has every ‘must have’ on my checklist: double ovens, master bedroom on the first floor, move-in ready, wood floors, pool, front porch, large office for the LOML, flat lot, closer to daughter #2, fenced yard.

Falling in love with this new house gave me incentive to get our house ready to sell (AGAIN!). Yes, we staged our house 15 years ago but at the time the market was awful so we stayed. The market now is definitely a seller’s market but it’s worth it if the house you’re buying is a deal.

With a fire lit underneath me, I made a ‘to-do’ list of projects. The first project that needs to be done is the kitchen cabinets.

We painted our kitchen cabinets 11 years ago. You can read all about it here.

And they were starting to look like they were painted eleven years ago. The paint was peeling on the cabinets we used a lot and the paint on the cabinet doors above the stove/microwave was grimy, bubbling and a lovely shade of orange!

We hired a local cabinet refinishing company named My Renewed Cabinetry, LLC that had a great reputation for quality work. The company is owned by a brother (Carlos) and sister (Cathy) who are both very nice, hard working people. We met with Cathy and we told her what we wanted and she was very understanding and happy to help us. She brought a sample cabinet door to show us the quality of the paint job and it was beautiful. I told her that I wanted to keep the cabinets white and I wanted to update the hardware.

I bought the new hardware on Amazon and I love them!

The handles will be used for the drawers and the knobs will be used for the cabinet doors.

The next day, Carlos came over and removed all the doors and drawer fronts and brought them to his warehouse where they were stripped, cleaned, primed, and painted.

The night before, we emptied each drawer and realized we not only have one junk drawer, we have 16!!!!! We save a lot of unnecessary crap! I decided to clean out each drawer before putting them back. We also noticed that some of the drawers were breaking from too much weight of all the junk!! The LOML found a drawer kit from Barker Door. The new drawers are a lot more sturdy.

A few days later Carlos and Cathy came to prep the for the painting the boxes of the cabinets after we emptied the cabinets so they could tape and cover the inside of the cabinets. Wow! What an endless job. Again, we have a lot of crap!!

Watching the prepping for the cabinet boxes is a lot of work! All the taping, the sanding and the vacuuming.

Carlos and Cathy spent almost two entire days taping each cabinet opening and hanging clear plastic sheeting to protect the rest of the house from the spray paint. They did such a great job!

Then Carlos became the paint spraying man!!

He first spray painted the boxes with primer, more sanding and vacuuming,

another coat of primer, some more sanding and vacuuming.

He then came back the next day and finished with two coats of paint. He also painted the bead board backsplash and the entire island.

Carlos and Cathy came back a few days later with all the doors and drawer fronts that they had painted in the warehouse, put all the beautifully painted doors on and even put on the new hardware.

All I can say is

WOW!!!!!

We also, after twenty one years in this house, finally cleaned the glass windows of the oven!

And we bought a new carpet for underneath the kitchen table. When we had to move the old carpet (made of jute) to move the appliances out so the walls behind them could get painted, we found dirt was getting underneath the carpet and scraping the stain off the wood floors. So we bought a rubber backed carpet.

How about some before & afters??!!

We love our new kitchen so much!!! And the experience with Carlos and Cathy was amazing. I recommend their company highly. If you’re in the Raleigh-Durham area, give them a call for your cabinet refinishing needs. You won’t regret it!!