Redoing our Kitchen: Counters & Cabinets

This was one of the biggest home tasks that I wanted to start to tackle this year and we finally got started on redoing our kitchen! However, this project is so big, we really need to break it down into parts because there is just so much to do. So we started with what I believe to have been the most important ones and also the hardest part (at least for me): the cabinets and the counter! It was important for me to start these because honestly the kitchen was just too dated and dark for me and didn’t look great in photos. So we went for a modern country-style kitchen with cream cabinets and butcher block counter tops.

Redoing the Kitchen

Color

The color we chose for the cabinets was Marshmallow Whip by Behr. It is a beautiful white with yellow/orange undertones to give it a nice creamy look. In different lighting the color changes which I really love.

The process of painting cabinets is something I don’t wish on anyone. I hated it. Granted, it was freezing outside so we didn’t have much space in our apartment to get them all spread out and easily painted. So we had to play “musical cabinets” where we’d switch dry ones onto the ladder we were using as a stand to paint and putting the wet ones where the dry ones were.

To take down the doors, sand them and coat all the cabinet doors and walls with one coat of primer and apply one coat of the paint on took TEN HOURS. The longest 10 hours. We were exhausted. A few days later we finished the second coat and put everything back. Now it was time for the countertop!

Countertop

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I actually bought a butcher block contact paper since we are renting. I didn’t feel the need to spend thousands on a real counter. James pretty much did all of this himself and he did an amazing job in my biased opinion! He managed to finish it in two days, but could have done it in one if we had more time, but we’re both so busy!

Click here to get the contact paper we used on the counters! It worked really well and looks beautiful in photos. I honestly can’t say how long it will last, but for a temporary, inexpensive solution, I’m really happy!

So.. what do you think?! How did we do on redoing our kitchen? Let me know in the comments or you can find me on Instagram or Twitter! Interested in reading another fun blog post? Check out my post about Our Stay at a Tiny House Resort!

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