The kitchen re-do is amost done! (I've only got a couple more coats of clear coat on the countertops, but for all intents and purposes, it's done.) Here is a before:
Take note of the wonderful mismatched cabinets and lovely 1975 yellow laminate countertop. Now, with a little paint, and some sweat equity, here is our new kitchen:
The blue tape is not part of the color pallate. It'll come off when all the clear coating is done!
The cabinets were all painted white, and the wall was painted a tan/taupe color.
The countertops are painted. (Yes, painted.) I sanded the countertops, just to take off the shine, then put on a coat of primer. The first coat of paint was a tan, with cream and charcoal grey sponged on. (We used a plastic grocery sack to sponge it one...worked great, and didn't absorb all the paint!)
There just isn't much I could do about the cracking edge. Oh well, it still looks better than it did before!Finally, I put on a coat of polyurethane (clear coat) to seal the paint. It needs about two more coats before I can really use it. They say you can scrub it and everything, but I think we'll be a little ginger with it...at least until the "real" remodel, hopefully sometime next year.
All in all, it doesn't look two bad for under $200!
