After Nearly THREE YEARS....They Are Finished!!!

I can't begin to tell you what a relief and an enormous blessing it is to have our kitchen cabinets finally finished!! Wahooooooo!!!!
I told DH last year that's the only thing I wanted for Christmas was to get them completed....
I asked again this year too...... :)
Thank you to my DH & son....you're the best!!!!

I'll spare you all the intensely frustrating and many times down-right depressing details of trying to re-do them.
It's been so hard and we have hit so many obstacles with the paint not doing well that it's just
unreal.....We have worked at this for nearly three years now......
I cannot believe I'm actually saying this!! Three years???

I would avoid inviting friends over because I was deeply embarrased that they were not finished
and that they looked so terrible each time another attempt was made to paint them.
They had a sprayed on factory finish that was a booger to work with.....then even after sanding and priming them the paint and/or application would flop time after time...... :(
Then the last time they were painted (by an outside source) that job just wasn't up to par either....I am picky.....I do admit.... but even my family agreed with me on this......dust particles and brush strokes abounded. :(

So, my dear sweet husband and son.....sanded and sanded and sanded them until smooth and sprayed the doors with a paint sprayer and after hours of work this week and a huge mess of pinkish dust on everything in my kitchen (we had to sand the frames inside...the doors we took to the woodshop).......
Thank you Lord they are done!!!
I am soooooo incredibly pleased & grateful with the outcome and am now looking forward to having our friends come over!!

This is where we started:
Laminated doors that after 10 years peeled and warped. POO!
Actually,before this photo we had WHITE linoleum (we're in the country mind you and my DH is a diesel mechanic) and the walls were burgundy plaid wallpaper.
Which I liked at the time.....but now I loooooove the vanilla beadboard and putty color trim even more!!!!

We try our very best to be a good steward, to be frugal and do work ourselves......so we replaced the old laminate doors with solid oak doors from a home supply discount store for $5.00 each!!!.....the only catch was you had to take different color finishes to find the sizes you needed, some where stained and some were this pickle finish......after 3 hours of measuring and measuring some more we got all the doors we needed!! Yeah!!
Found out later that was the easy part!!!
Although it looks brighter in the photo this was a very pretty cranberry color. It was one of the first attempts at painting the cabinets.....the paint peeled up within days.....boo hooo.... :(

Picked a slightly different shade this last time.....but I really,REALLY love it!!

I can't even remember exactly how many times we've attempted to get them painted...

Honestly, I think it has been at least four!!
I prayed and prayed for them to turn out right and be something I'd be so proud for people to see.....sometimes I will let customers from our shop in (because the shop doesn't have a bathroom and they need to go or stop shopping and leave)..... :(

So, I would let them in and always have to point out that my calico cabinets were a "work in progress"......yes, for almost THREE years!!

But, Glory Hallelujah! I am so grateful that they are finished!!

We found little architectural metal star knobs for about .50 each at a flea market and I have been saving them for the cabinets......... :)

Their mustardy (new word) lol...color looks soooo great on the deep red cabinet doors and they

match up with the antiqued brass hinges that we recycled from the old ones.....

I think the total cost.....not counting the huge amount of work......cost us about $225.00 for the

doors, primer and paint.....the other two gallons of paint we had.... I've been able to use on things that we make & sell in our prim shop......like noodle/dough boards, furniture, signs, etc....glad to find a use for the other paint instead of it being wasted.....

So my blogger friends........ Here's our finished kitchen! Yeahhhhh!!!

DH framed up windows and we made all of our own trim.....
So what do y'all think?

Besides the fact that I'm crazy for doing all this!!

I'm so proud of them and for what my DH and family has helped me do!

Thanks for looking!

Backwoodsprim