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Before and After Home DIY: Painting Kitchen Cabinets
By
Danelle Ice - Home Ever After |
June 28th, 2009 |
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Home Decorating |
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We’ve been working on a home DIY project for a few weeks. We’re painting our old, dated kitchen cabinets a bright new shade of Daisy Dew, courtesy of Dutch Boy Refresh Paint.
The cabinets were an old, brown “paneling-look” style that I’m sure we all remember from the 70s. The new cream color is much more appropriate for a cozy country kitchen, and really brightens up the entire room by reflecting light.
Since we’ll be installing new cabinet handles and drawer pulls, there isn’t any hardware shown in the after pictures.
The wallpaper on the walls is also eventually going to be removed and the walls painted instead. The bottom cabinets will be painted to match as soon as the new laminate countertop is installed (which is cozily residing in the garage right now!).
Here are the before and after photos for our DIY painting project.
Kitchen Cabinets, Before and After
The first section of kitchen cabinets surrounding the oven, before (brown) and after (cream colored – Daisy Dew):
Main section of kitchen cabinets, before (brown) and after (Daisy Dew):
Cabinets at the sink and window area, before:
Cabinets at the sink and window area, after:
Overall, a pretty amazing transformation for our kitchen. Even my husband and daughter would stand and stare at the kitchen for days after it was completed! Thanks again to Dutch Boy Paint for supplying us with the Refresh Paint for this home DIY project.
For more before and after projects, visit Making a Happy Home Monday, Metamorphosis Monday and Tackle it Tuesday. The Dutch Boy image and logo are used with permission by Dutch Boy Paint.
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WOW, what a difference! I love it!
Those look great! It is amazing what a difference a little paint can make! I know you are enjoying them. I hope you enjoy the rest of your transformation!
Blessings,
Traci
p.s. I am having my first giveaway, so stop by if you’d like!
Love the transformation from dark to light! Great job!
Be a sweetie,
Shelia ;0
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Amazing change… I love when paint does the trick!
Looks beautiful — such a great improvement!
Amazing change… I love when paint does the trick!
Oops…forgot to say great post! Looking forward to your next one.
Great job – looks so up to date !
Hugs ~ Kammy
Wow, what an improvement! I love them!
Great change! I have very similar cabinets that I plan to repaint after the holiday weekend. Any suggestions, hints?
What a huge difference! The white cabinets look like something you’d buy in stores nowadays.
Such a super transformation. I love the cream color. This just totally changed the kitchen cabinets and updated the. It looks fabulous. Hugs, Marty
@Marjorie: I plan to write about the actual painting process soon (with tips) – don’t know if I’ll make it before you paint though!
Barbi
@Marty and Others: Thanks so much! I love them too. We just got the curtains hung up yesterday; it is a night and day difference from what we started with.
Barbi
Oh my, what a complete difference lightening them up made to this kitchen! They were ho-hum. And now they’re magnificent! Great job!
Brenda
Those look really great! It is amazing what difference a little paint can make!
@Sharon: Thanks! That’s what I always say too, and it is so noticable going from dark to light.
Barbi
Homemaker Barbi, Your kitchen looks just Stunning!!!! Congrats!!!
I am wondering what colours are you planing to use as accents?
I am only asking as I have seen some cabinets which looked alot like yours the last time I was in France, in an antique home. Their kitchen cabinets looked so much like yours, and they had an added pale green colour where the lines were in the cabinets, and the hardware was very old looking. It honestly was so relaxing to be in there.
Your kitchen looks like a Country french dream, so far. I can not wait to see what else you do!!! Sunny:-D
It looks great!! So much brighter:-) Awesome tackle!
the cupboards look so much nicer in white. Great tackle.
The cabinets look fantastic! I love the paneled doors painted cream. It is going to look like a brand new kitchen!
@Sunny: I was going to antique the cabinets with a brown tea wash, but once I saw them completed, I liked them as is! It’s funny you mention green lines, because the curtains we just put up in the kitchen have green and white stripes. Thanks so much for the compliments!
Barbi
They look really good! I bet the kitchen feel so good and bright! I love kitchens that are bright! Check out my Tackle It Tuesday here.
It almost looked like beadboard after painting it cream! Gorgeous!
I found cabinets just like these at a garage sale this summer from GarageSaleCow.com. The cabinets really needed to be updated and a new paint job did just the trick!