Rust-Oleum Cabinet Transformations: 99.7% done!

well this was a long week to say the least. so happy and thankful we can end it with a nice holiday and then maybe head to the movies to relax. the kitchen cabinets are done! and yes i would love to do the countertops and the backsplash and replace more appliances, but that will have to wait. i hate to say it, but the cabinets look so good i am not sure i need to do the countertops..ha ha ..also ours are so small, i wish they had a smaller kit.

we used the rust-oleum cabinet transformation kit (small kit) and picked tudor for the color. i had a $10 off lowes card so i paid $70 for it!

Here are the before photos:

Here is the run down of how we tackled the project:

• Saturday: took all the cabinet doors down and hinges off...started deglossing them saturday
• Sunday: finished the deglossing of the cabinets
• Monday: after work, started painting the cabinets one coat...then second coat (I am off the rest of the week, so I have all day to work on the project)

• Tuesday: still paining the cabinets one coat...then second coat...went on a tile store trip in between waiting for the coats to dry.

• Wednesday: Started doing the top protective coat...this is where things went south..it dried really fast in our 90 degree heat, but it would drip and i wouldn't see it so i have a few drip areas on the doors.
• Wed night: Joe did the cabinet frame work...this was also the hardest step!
• Thursday: Cleaned and spray painted all the cabinet hinges with rust-oleum metallic spray paint.

• Thursday evening: All the cabinets are back on hinges, trip to Lowes for the cabinet bumper stickers and looked at the microwaves.
• Friday: drove 2 hours one way to go to Ikea to get the cabinet pulls
• Friday night: Joe began doing some of the pulls and it did prove to be harder than we thought
• Saturday: Joe got the microwave up and the rest of the cabinet pulls
• Sunday: need to do touch ups to fix all the nicks from when we added the pulls and microwave

and for the finished product!!!!! i am so happy with it all, i really can't believe how good it looks! the run down on the cost of the project goes like this:

• cabinet kit: $70
• paint brushes: $12
• spray paint: $7
• cabinet bumpers: $10.75
• cabinet pulls ikea: $75
• new over the range microwave: $225
• Total: $399.75 (the microwave wasn't necessary but the other one was dying and this one matches much better) if i do the backsplash, that will probably be another $400 to the project.

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