My New Kitchen

My poor kitchen has been in serious need of a facelift for quite awhile now. I have talked about painting my kitchen cabinents but have always chickened out which I am sure has always been totally fine with my husband who HATES projects. Now I love my husband, but I have learned that if I want something done, that I need to do it myself ... when he is out of town. Otherwise it stresses him out too much being that he is OCD. So Dave left Monday morning at 7am for a business trip and I went straight to work on this project that I have been planning for a month now.

These are the BEFORE pictures of my kitchen:

And here are my co-conspirators. My friends Alena ...

Lynnae and my cousin Shelley (who drove all the way up from Spanish Fork to help me). Thanks girls!!

Thanks to all my wonderful helpers we were able to crank the project out in no time. We were done with all the painting by the babies naptime, about 4 hours!! And that with 8 kids running around. Whoever thinks that stay-at-home moms spend their days watching soap operas and eating bon-bons have never met my friends. :)

Later that evening I antiqued the cupboards and painted the hinges and the next morning I was able to rehang all the cupboard doors and it was done. That just left me to wait nervously for Dave to get home and render his opinion.

Here are the AFTER pictures of my kitchen.


Dave was supposed to be out of town until Wednesday so imagine my surprise when he got home this evening, a day early. I was so so so very relieved when he walked in and LOVED the kitchen!!!

BTW - I got a bid a few months back on getting this done to my kitchen by a professional and the bid came back at $2,400. We did it for about $130.