Every plan always look good on paper. It's when you start executing on those plans that you uncover the unforeseen variables that you weren't aware of during the planning stage. Within days of closing on the house, we already knew that we didn't like the look and color of the kitchen cabinets and we bought this Rust-Oleum Cabinet Transformations kit from Amazon, as a part of our "pre-move-in" to-do lists. It sure looked easy enough in those home renovation shows but we would later find out that the can of worms we were going to open would completely sidetrack our original plans and force us to go on a totally different path.
A little over four years later, we finally got to open this kit to start preparing the doors and cabinet frames.
We started by taking out the doors from the frames and removed all the hardware so we can clean and prepare the doors for painting. The door finish is in bad shape but the doors in general were still in pretty good shape. No significant gouges or dents on the wood and still felt very solid.
The kit's instructions were easy enough to follow. The process was simple enough and straightforward, it just needed a lot of elbow grease to make sure that it's done properly.
Once we were done with the doors, we were going to tackle the frames - or so we thought. It was already late in the year, the holiday seasons are approaching quick and there were some surprises waiting for us around the corner.
One note if you guys are planning on doing the same thing to your cabinets, make sure to draw a "map" of your kitchen cabinets to keep organized. I basically put in painter's (blue) tape on the back side of the doors so that I know which cabinet it came from and what its position was. You can come up with your own naming/mapping scheme but I basically went with something like WSL or Wall Sink Left for the wall cabinet above the sink, left door.
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