Kitchen Phase 2: Round 1

Well not new... just refurbished.

OH MAAA GAAAASSHHHHH

My friend and I finally got around to picking up some cabinet stain and by the time we got home from our quick Lowes run, I was WAY pumped. So at 6pm, the "little" project began! I didn't clean up till around 10.

Vacuum attached to help with dust.

I have had really good luck with Skil branded stuff. I used my Skil sander for most of the sanding.  In previous blogs I have mentioned tools that have been really helpful to me. I have referred to these tools as "my" tools. Unfortunately, they are not all mine. Some are my husbands tools and he wanted me to be sure that you knew this! Now that's out of the way, here we go!

I advise wearing some sort of ear protection.

Once all of the cabinets were empty, I took the doors off. The doors still need to be sanded, but this project isn't even close to being done. Anything I couldn't fit in the lower cabinets, I covered with sheets. I used sheets instead of plastic because I was worried that when the cleanup started, the dust would just fly off the plastic sheets. The dust kinda stuck to the cloth sheets and I was able to fold them up and get them into the laundry without making an even bigger mess.

Oops

In my haste to begin the project, I left a few things out on the counter. OOoooops!

I almost forgot to sand the inside edges of the cabinets. I was aaaallllmost finished when I realized this sad detail, and it made the project feel like it took forever.

 It got pretty messy. But between old clothes and swiffer wet mops, cleanup wasn't too bad.
The next afternoon I made tortellini over the stove. My stove MAJORLY started to smoke. I think I may have gotten some wood dust in the catcher thingy below my burner! I cleaned it all out and things were fine, but it kinda smelled like a bonfire!

Soooo Purdy!!!!

Tomorrow I plan on doing the rest of the kitchen.


Here's my Plan Of Attack! :
~Sand Cabinet Faces
~Stain and Seal Cabinet Faces
~Put Stuff Back In My Cabinets
~Sand Cabinet Doors
~Stain and Seal Cabinet Doors
~Be SUPER Excited.

I figured I didn't need the doors to be able to utilize my cabinet space. If I do the doors last, then I have a functional kitchen much much sooner! Plus I can sand the doors outside where the clean up will be virtually nonexistent!

Cant wait to get started again!!

-S

Pinterest Spectacular

I have recently been introduced to Pinterest.com and I am officially obsessed. I have a few qualms with people mislabeling their posts, which gets them mixed into the wrong categories. If you didn't make it yourself, or it wasn't made by hand... don't put it in the DIY category... put it in products. I guess that's my kind of OCD. I'm sure ill get over it in like.. wait what was I going on about??

This picture doesn't do it justice.

So I saw a post where someone used a curtain rod to hang pictures across a wall. Then later I saw someone doing something with a tree branch. I don't quite remember what they did with the branch, and it might possibly be what I ended up doing... but I just don't remember!! Regardless, I can't take full credit for this DIYer!

I LOVE MY ENTRY WAY!!!!!!

All I did was take a branch that had fallen from my front yard tree, spray-paint it black, hang it on my wall, and tie my picture frames to it using some relatively thin ribbon! VIOLA!!!!

-S