It's prime time!!

Woo doggie! Just a warning to you that this is going to be a long, drawn out project. After removing the cabinet doors, I wiped down both the inside and outside of the cabinets with soap and water. Then I followed with a deglosser to take the current finish off of the cabinets. Deglosser is a new thing for me and I'm anxious to see how it works instead of the old sand and wipe down method of prepping. I'll keep you updated!

This is day one of primer on the upper left bank of cabinets. I'm using Zinsser Bullseye 1-2-3 primer which I bought at our local ace hardware. It costs roughly $20 per gallon. I'm all about doing my projects for next to no cost but a kitchen gets a lot of use and I have chosen to spend extra money on paint to make sure it holds up to my "wee three"!

I took out the light (well, my electrician did, thanks dear) and the mail sorter that was under the cabinets on the left. You can see that I have a little bit more cork board to remove there on the wall. Here is the before pic in case you don't remember those items being there.

After the second coat of primer, I'm pretty happy and now I wait. The primer needs 24 hours to be touchable but hardens completely in 7 days. 7 DAYS!! That's why this project is going to take forever. If I could paint everything at once and wait the 7 days, I would be fine but doing a section at a time is going. to. take. for. ever. Sigh. I guess I'll have to bore you with my goodwill and auction finds while I wait!!

Are you still here with me? Or did I lose you at 7 days?

 

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Kitchen, unhinged

Day two of the kitchen mess redo.

I removed the quarter round from the ceiling and removed one upper bank of cabinet doors. Since we can't function without our kitchen, I have to remodel in phases.

This is everything that was in those cabinets. I am now one of "those people" with the fridge top pharmacy! I'm already having some minor panic attacks with everything out in the open. I like things PUT AWAY! Sorry............. Vent over.

Here you can see that I removed the scalloped trim work above the window to make a cleaner, more modern look. It actually came down easily with a hammer and pry bar. I also scraped the popcorn ceiling and patched any bad spots. This step actually took me two days. Popcorn ceiling is not a kid friendly product so I only worked on it while Sally was sleeping. I will do a separate post on popcorn ceiling removal sometime.

I also intended to take down the wallpaper from the bulkhead but it was glued to plywood and it refuses to come off. Since I want to keep the bulkhead, the wallpaper will just be painted over later and I don't think anyone will notice (except every one I just told here) oops!

Did you tear anything apart today? Do you have a fridge top pharmacy?

 

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Destination, cook in style!

Thanks to some gentle poking from Mom and Amanda, I present my kitchen redo! Well, I haven't really done much yet. But I have some 70's love you can feast your eyes on for today!

Behold, THE COFFEE STATION! Enough said.

 

 

 

 

 

There you have it! The whole shebang!! Keep a watchful eye out for more posts because this room needs a miracle!

 

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