Kitchen Cabinets

I have always hated....."strongly disliked" our kitchen cabinets. I "strongly disliked" how all of the handles/hardware were put in the middle of the doors....uugghh. And I have always strongly disliked the horrible scaloped trim around the top of the cabinets. These things were all really cool.....WERE.....in the 70's. But our cabinets are oak......so I sure don't want to replace them. And I can't bring myself to paint them. So I figured out what to I wanted to do.

Kitchen cabinets as they have been FOREVER

Taking doors and hardware off. And starting to remove EVERYTHING out of them. This part really takes longer than you anticipate and is not fun at all.

Here are the cabinets after being sanded. You can see Dana's utter excitement peeking through the cabinets. He seriously is the most awesome husband ever. This was MY project idea. Not his at all. He thought they were fine. But that is his outlook on every project before it is started!!! I see the "after" he can only see the "before".

This sweetheart sanded all of these cabinets for me. We only have one sander. So he did it for me. It was a HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE mess. Dust everywhere. We taped up the doorways and that def. helped keep the mess contained. But still the kitchen was mass destruction. There was dust at least a 1/4 inch thick on the floor. I was in charge of cleanup! And I am doing the sanding on the doors and all of the staining and hardware. The handles will no longer be in the middle of the doors!!! And the stain is going to look a lot different. But it's taking time.

Stay tuned for the finished product. I am sooo excited! But it's been a ton of work.