Hello! It’s officially week three of One Room Challenge and I’ve made some good headway! No actual DIY work has been completed in my kitchen, but that’s ok. But, I still have lots of projects completed.
Cabinet Paint Color Selected //
I made a trip to my local Benjamin Moore and bought a few paint samples and quickly landed on the perfect cabinet color for my lower cabinets, dark teal! It’s a beautiful rich color and going to look so good on my lower cabinets, here’s a reminder of my design plans.
I’m painting my lower kitchen cabinets Dark Teal by Benjamin Moore using the Advance Paint line which is perfect for cabinetry.
Kitchen Cabinet Painting Prepwork //
It’s the big weekend of getting started on painting our kitchen cabinets! I decided to paint the bottom cabinets first and then tackle the upper kitchen cabinets. Since we’re going with two different colors, it makes sense to tackle one section at a time. This is my first time painting kitchen cabinets, I’ve painted bathroom cabinets and furniture pieces in the past, but this is my first kitchen project. My goal is for the cabinets to look professional, like factory-finish cabinets. I own a few paint sprayers that I’ve used on an exterior paint job that didn’t require a fine mist setting. After a lot of research I landed on the Wagner Flexio 595 Paint Sprayer combination, it includes two paint sprayers one for larger projects (rooms and outdoors) and one for fine finish small projects. In addition, I also ordered a painting tent to make the process easier, cut back on outside dust and not worry about overspray.
Wagner Paint Sprayer
Paint sprayer for big jobs and fine finish painting projects (inside and out!) for cabinetry and furniture
Painting Tent
This tent is perfect for outside painting projects!
Week Two Project Goals // Check-In
Visit the cabinet dealer and order the dishwasher cabinet door
Visited the cabinet dealer and ordered dishwasher door, asap
Order the new dishwasher!
placing dishwasher order on 4/18/24
Nail down the paint color selection, get the current cabinet color, and color-matched (for upper cabinets!)
Done!
Order cabinet hardware samples, this has been a challenge! The ones I love have been out of stock, ugh
Done!
Kitchen Cabinet cleanout, purge the kitchen of duplicates and items not being used! Donate to Goodwill
It’s getting there, will make a lot of progress prior to starting to paint this weekend!
Over the weekend, I should be big strides with our kitchen makeover and hoping for lots of kitchen updates!
