To refresh your memory - and mine - the plan is to spend little to no money on giving the kitchen a facelift. The emphasis on no money. So instead of anything being replaced or removed or majorly changed, a nice coat of paint will have to do. Except my cupboards are made out of plywood. Poorly.
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| seams |
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| more seams |
Ick. Not to mention the incredibly visible knots in the plywood that dot the doors randomly. And the itty bitty moulding on top that really isn't big enough to call moulding.
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| Oh, hello. |
This is my after picture. Yep, I pulled the "moulding" off because it looks so hideous running down and under the bulkhead. And, yep, that's a gap between the cabinet and bulkhead which the "moulding" was hiding. I'll have to keep thinking about how to close that corner...
If anything, I figure whatever I do to the cabinets - putty, sand, prime, paint - they couldn't possibly look any worse than they do now. At least, that's the hope.
So I started puttying yesterday.
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| Oy vey |
This is my "Oh my God" moment where I freak out and think... Ok, look what I've done - there's no turning back. How the heck am I going to do all this?
Well, I didn't get a chance to continue worrying about that because swim and gymnastics got in the way yesterday. Further puttying put on hold.
But I did get a chance to test drive the new hardware.
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| Old handles |
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| New knobs |
The positioning is wrong (I just stuck them in the bottom hole from the old knobs), but the hardware is right. I get a warm fuzzy feeling every time I open a cabinet door. Yup, they're keepers.
So until next crack at puttying, here's a before of the next 4 doors of upper cabinets.
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| Get ready |
I just hope I have enough mom time scheduled to get at all 23 of these babies!
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