Kitchen Painting

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!

Blue Skies are Gonna Clear Up ♪

I painted a room! I know, you're thinking, "big whoop." But I have never done it before, so it is an exciting time for me! I've never really had walls that belonged to me before, so I can't wait to start on all the other rooms!

I started with my daughter's room. It is the smallest, and it actually had drywall to paint. (All the other rooms have paneling) I painted three of the walls white, leaving the wall that is wallpapered alone. (I think it's ugly, but my daughter doesn't mind the cutesy cartoon mice with pink and purple balloons, so whatever...)

But the big fun was in her closet. It's a nice sized walk in, and because she has about 5 items of clothing than need to hang, we've made the closet into a playroom of sorts, where she can set up her Barbies and Littlest Pet Shops in peace. So following this theme, I painted the closet a sky blue and sponged on fluffy clouds.

I think my first attempt at painting was fairly successful, and I can't wait to get my roller on all that ugly paneling...