Groveraxle, PAINT MY UPPER CABINETS PLEASE =)
thetzone
6 years ago
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You are always so helpful and I really want to envision the kitchen “completed” so to speak. The appliances will be stainless so ignore their yucky ugliness...
Also the wall above the uppers will be SW Amazing Gray like the rest of our home and not yellow....
Thank you so much!!
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Comments (19)Oh man, everybody is being so kind and helpful, I think I should explain why the kitchen cannot be done as my "forever" kitchen. BUT ANYONE WHO JUST WANTS TO GO TO THE COLOR DILEMMA SHOULD SKIP THE IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING MATERIAL. The kitchen is in a 1923 Sears kit house which won my heart, all my available retirement money, and a good bit of my sister's retirement money. It was to have been an investment, but once you lose your heart, rational decision making goes by the wayside. This is what I bought out of foreclosure last year: This is what it looked like this summer, the day after the new double-paned wood-framed windows were installed: The objective was to give the envelope and the systems of this house that arrived in pieces on two boxcars another 90 years, so most of the money went into scraping and painting the cypress siding, insulating and replacing wallboard, upgrading the electricity, putting in AC, and the 20 windows. I knew from the outset that the kitchen could not be expensive. Because the plan was to rent the house out for a few years before selling it, I was pretty ok with the idea of a vaguely period-appropriate looking kitchen with good quality but not brand new cabinets, appliances, etc. Meanwhile, I have gotten crazier and crazier about this little 26 ft by 26 ft house, and more ego invested. I probably will in fact live in it myself early next year while work is done on the 1906 brick rowhouse I have lived in for most of my adult life, but all my roots are in my current neighborhood and in any case the Sears house is supposed to be bringing in rent. THE KITCHEN DILEMMA So now I am working on a kitchen that I am psychically invested in but cannot just do to my own idiosyncratic taste. Because the house is modest and funky, it would look silly with a grand pristine kitchen anyway, so the notion of painting the two older cabinets a different color than the the rest seemed appropriate. [Note: The inside beadboard will stay white; only the doors and frames will be painted. Clearly if I get the color wrong, repainting will not be a huge deal. I am just utterly brain-dead from triangulating to make decisions small and large on the fly.] The bits of my wardrobe that I hung on the cabinets to see how the colors looked proved that muted aqua, the original-idea dusky blue, or a slightly brighter but still muted blue would be the best. It was only when the "charcoal" stain I put in the countertops turned out to have a distinctly blue cast that I fell apart. I am now actually thinking the yellow color in lavender lass's country french dream kitchen might work. [Of course, part of me wants to admit defeat by picking F&B's Dead Salmon, solely for the name.] If the five coats of tung oil I need to put on the counters quiets the blue tinge of the counters, I still prefer blue or aqua. I just need another idea -- and something that someone other than I could imagine decorating around. Here is the kitchen at night, shot with a flash because I am an idiot with a camera. The countertops are face down for oiling, but you can see from the edge of the one on the left how blue the counter color is. [The outlet covers are going to be more the tile color.] Thanks again to everyone for all the encouragement and idea. Apologies for yammering on and cheers....See MoreCan I do cream on my upper cabinets against white walls?
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Comments (20)Lighting and storage first. If you really work on purging stuff you do not need there might be enough storage to remove all that stuff from the counter . If you no experience with painting cabinets then you either need a pro (expensive) or leave them alone IMO nothing looks worse than a poor painting job of cabinets. a counter depth fridge would make the space feel larger . If you post pics of the whole space and surrounding space you might get some ideas for extra storage. I see now the DR you have room in there for a buffet which could give you lots of needed storage and once those counters are empty the whole space will look better. I agree a better wall color and also just a new track light with 5 heads and LED bulbs in 4000K will brighten up that kitchen. Use a track that has GU10 bulbs and just exchange them after for the LEDs...See More
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6 years agoI'm sorry it took so long, but whites are really hard, especially with those teeny weeny color chips. The white is only an approximation. The amazing gray is pretty close. (You should have trouble seeing the part you painted on the right wall.)
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