Today was the day I worked alone. SO, in an effort to prevent injuries, I worked on our temporary kitchen facelift (we budgeted about 200 bucks for this, just to make it livable until we can do the Big Kitchen Renovation, say, 5 years down the road). Let me just say that I LOVE appliance epoxy - it makes old, ugly kitchen fixtures look at least acceptable, if not fantastic. Our stove now matches our fridge, and the 1930-1950's steel cabinets are well on their way.
Things I got done:
- Painted the drawers red.
- Painted about half of the lower doors steely metallic (it got windy and I had to quit).
- Primed and laid sticky tile on a test patch of the floor.
- Painted the first of three coats of blackboard paint on the exposed ends of the cabinets (both for adults and the kids).
Things still to do:
- Wire the kitchen
- Install new light fixtures (will probably stay after the BKR)
- Install the new faucet set (will probably stay after the BKR)
- Paint over the beigy-marbled tile-patterned wall board (white, I'm thinking, and probably with Kilz.)
- Finish laying floor tiles ( the test was successful so far)
- Fix broken/missing drawer rollers in sink cabinet
- Patch and reskim the two plaster walls we've revealed, then paint.
- Paint cabinet frames black, pull and paint upper doors black.
- Pick the six least shiny chrome handles and paint them black (for lower doors)
That's a lot of stuff to do yet, for this superficial makeover. I did, however, discover that the nylon washers I bought to replace the several missing drawer wheels in the sink cabinet were the wrong size - I need 1 1/4 inch washers instead of 1 1/8. Grrr. That's a long drive to return 5 bucks worth of nylon washers. But I also need to buy another can or two of epoxy paint. I sense that I'll run short if I don't.
Red drawers? Blackboard paint? I like what I'm hearing! :)
ReplyDeleteIt's very retro-deco-diner, which really speaks to the kid in me :) I'm planning to post photos tonight, of what I've gotten done today. The sticky tile is predictably b/w checkerboard style.
ReplyDeleteSine we've got one boy and another on the way, I wanted something that would be kid-freindly. And maybe a little cartoony, until we can have our grownup kitchen.