Painted cabinets 2.0

[Nettie]

Yes they are real soapstone and we cut and fabricated it ourselves. I love them. We've had them almost 5 years now and they are still one of my favorite things. We did the same thing with our cabinets- we kept the bases and just replaced the doors and hardware. We removed the multiple layers of vinyl flooring and the layer of plywood covering the original floors and refinished them.

[Powermuffin]

Netti, I love the color of the cabinets. Your kitchen is very pretty! Have you sent us pictures of the rest of your home, including the outside? I am lusting after your river rock pillars!

I used Cabinet Coat paint in an ivory color when we redid the kitchen and find that it is very easy to clean and very durable. The cabinets were white before but they were very hard to keep clean and chipped easily. Cabinet Coat made a huge difference in the way the cabinets look.
Diane

[Nettie]

Hi Diane:
Over the years I have posted pics yes, but most of the exterior pics are on the old house web. The pillars came about because when we bought the house this was a north facing porch with overgrow arborvitae bushes and it had been rotten and rebuilt with plywood floors and plywood boxing in the turned posts. On the north side is a lake and we get strong winter winds blowing across the lake and big snow drifts in front of this porch. My husband was a stone mason at the time and decided to pour a cement porch that could withstand this beating. We have a fieldstone foundation so we picked rocks from our back field and used them to cover the cement and then he built columns around the turned posts because the bottoms were rotten as well and yet I didn't want them taken down.
Thanks for the compliments.

[Nettie]

Here are a couple more exterior pics. It's a prairie box with the kitchen added onto the back side of it. There are porches on 3 sides.

[clover]

Can you tell me what color the cabinets are? I seriously considered green for my mudroom cabinets, but couldn't find a color I loved so I went with white and painted the walls green. Someday I plan on redoing the kitchen and would love to get my color cabinet fix.

And are those lights Schoolhouse Electric, or just something similar?

[nlswitz]

I like your cabinet color too. I'm thinking of painting one section of my cabinets as well. Do you have many coats of paint that you had to paint over?

[Nettie]

Clover: The color is "Retreat" by Sherwin Williams. Yes they are Schoolhouse Electric, great company to work with.

Nlswitz- I had a couple coats on top of a primer. Test patches didn't seem to adhere well so I took the doors and drawers off and lightly sanded them all.

[clover]

Yes they are Schoolhouse Electric, great company to work with.

I thought so. I have three of those with identical shades in my mudroom, in two different sizes, with black bases. They were extremely helpful over the phone, when I had no clue if the sizes I was choosing were right for the space. I was just hoping you'd say they were something cheaper because I want to replace all my fixtures with Schoolhouse, but those three alone set me back almost $1,000!

Your finishes remind me a lot of my mudroom - minus the green cabinets. I was gung-ho for green but my husband was hesitant. So few people go with color these days! I was also considering red for my kitchen cabinets eventually, and was afraid the two together would look like Christmas all year round.

[Nettie]

My husband was hesitant thinking it would be too dark and the combo with the walls would clash but after we got it on then he remarked on how much he likes it now.

I wish we did have a mudroom but the entrance that we use comes right into this kitchen.

[Powermuffin]

Love your house and your husband did a great job on the pillars!
Diane