Because we’re staying at the cabin later this year to enjoy Thanksgiving with DS/DIL and our BFs, I decided I had time to tackle one last cabin project. The kitchen cabinets were badly faded and stained after twenty years of previous weekend/seasonal owners, and they were not a color we loved. So, I decided to break the project into seven cabinet groupings to complete the project in a week with minimal drudgery and kitchen disarray. I used Farmhouse Paint which is a one-coat furniture paint that does not require any primer, adhesion product, or finish/wax application. It’s expensive (about $150/gallon*), but was a dream to work with, and we love the result.
Before (gray green):
After (gray blue):
The color difference is hard to capture in natural light especially as we chose a blue with the same saturation and undertone as the original green. This photo, shot with my work spotlight, looks a bit garish but enables you to see the color change more starkly.
What I particularly love is knowing that the cabinets are now like new and can be kept that way given that we have the paint and means to keep them pristine. In these two photos, you can see the fading/aging of the originals compared to the refresh:
On to Thanksgiving!
(*The company sent me four quarts instead of a one-gallon can. This project took two quarts.)