(not so) Extreme Kitchen Makeover!

Before
We moved into our house about 6 months ago. This is what the kitchen looked like...

After

 We got rid of all the old appliances and replaced them with brand new stainless steel beauties. I also painted the kitchen a lovely blue green...

 Okay...so it's not such a lovely shade for the kitchen.

After painting the kitchen I thought "hey, lets paint the cabinets!" So we went to Home Depot and bought the Rust-Oleum Cabinet Transformations kit in "linen." It didn't look so hard - take off the cabinets, remove the gloss with their special de-glosser, prime twice, stain and wipe off, top coat and voila! Brand new beautiful cabinets - so easy!? No, not so easy. It took forever and the results are just eh. I guess it doesn't help that the cabinets are totally boring and flat.

This was the kitchen half-way finished.

After After

Well, here it is. Finished for now (ignore the missing cabinet above the fridge)...

 Marshall put on the new hardware.

I like the paint color so much better now. It's made me want to keep the kitchen cleaner hahahaha I'm not crazy about the cabinets, but if I hadn't redone them I wouldn't know now that it's more trouble than it's worth and I should just wait until we become millionaires so we can get brand new cabinets and have someone else do all the work. Oh well, c'est la vie...

We've still got some work to do like replacing the hideous lights and getting a new counter top, but this will do for now. Next up - the master bedroom. Stay tuned...