There's one thing I love about this house and it happens to be the very same thing I also hate about this house...the cabinets! Cabinets, cabinets, everywhere! Of course, lots of cabinets mean lots of storage. Who can argue with storage, right?! I envision that the conversation between the people that built this house and their cabinet maker went something like this..."We want the best cabinets money can buy (that's so they will last 500 years and the future owners won't be able to afford to rip them out and start over because new cabinets to replace their quality would cost them a small fortune...um, sorry, I'm not bitter...resume conversation) as we were saying..."We want high quality cabinets, and we want them every.single.place you can put them." Kitchen cabinets, two pantry cabinets, living room built-in, bathroom cabinets...well...you get the idea, ha! LOTS of oak! So...while painting the kitchen cabinets will hopefully take place soon...I've asked my handy banker husband for this for Mother's Day and my birthday (both in May)...we've managed to paint a few cabinets here and there.
This project was our built-in entertainment center. (By the time we got around to painting this cabinet, I had already begun to change colors, furniture, etc.) There were a couple of issues that we had to deal with on this one. First and foremost...unattach that baby from the wall and center it! I would LOVE to know the thought process behind building this cabinet all the way to the left of the wall...things that make you go..."hummm!" Being the type-A, OCD girl that I am...centering it up was first on my list! Because we were moving it down on the wall, it also meant having to move the electrical outlets that were built in.
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That left us with the backing with the cut out holes in all the wrong places, so we decided (and I'm SO glad we did) to put new backing up and use the wide beadboard! I love it! It's just the cottage feel I was going for! I think it turned out great! White cabinets make me happy! :)
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| Gettng ready to move the electrical outlets down. |
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| My husband...the comedian! |
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| After sanding, painting and changing the backing. |
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| After |
The next big thing for this room is to finish changing out all the trim (I love wide trim!) and also the monster in the room...the fireplace! arrg! Then, one day...hardwoods.
Oh, and about craigslist...I'm so on a roll right now selling all my stuff! I've sold everything green, red, yellow and orange that I owned. I loved all of those colors for a really long time and I'm just so ready for a change. I had furniture and accessories that were limiting my ability to make any "cottage" changes so I sold them! In fact, see that coffee table...GONE! Too bad, I used my profit...which was supposed to be for another coffee table, already on a precious blue cabinet that I found at HomeGoods last week, haha!
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