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Okie Farm Girl
True Blue Farmgirl
1674 Posts
Mary Beth
McLoud
Oklahoma
USA
1674 Posts |
 Posted - May 20 2011 : 6:57:19 PM
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Susie, if you'll go to my blog to today's post from the blog link below, you'll see how we redid our cabinets. They were awful. I'm talking dark, dark, dark (did I say dark?) stained wood that wasn't worth refinishing. We didn't want to replace them yet because we are closing in our patio and have a wood stove installation project going on there so money needs to go there.
Also, we had a drop ceiling in the kitchen that was a grid of the dark wood. We ripped out the drop ceiling and covered the sheetrock with Armstrong ceiling tiles that look like the old fashioned tin tiles. They are white. We also took out all of the flourescent lights in the drop ceiling and installed a hang down light that is much prettier. Anyway, we did strip the cabinets of varnish so that they would hold paint, and then painted them an antique white, taping off the center portion and the groove around the center portion. We stained the center with golden oak and finished that part with Formby's Tung Oil Finish. Then, we taped off the groove, covered everything else with newsprint and spraypainted the groove a seafoam green. The cabinet doors did not have handles, so we added the old fashioned ceramic knob pulls. The floor was an icky linoleum which got ripped up and while my DH snapped the lines and cut the tiles, I lay ceramic tile and grouted it. We did a combination of a solid and a decorative and I am really proud of it!!
Mary Beth
www.OklahomaPastryCloth.com
www.Oklahomapastrycloth.com/blog
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