White Kitchen Cabinets

A few minutes ago I would have swore I did a blog post on our kitchen remodel a few years ago.  I was apparently wrong, because I can't find it if I did. :(

Anyway, a few years ago we did a kitchen remodel of sorts.  We took the doors off the upper cabinets and painted them and the lower cabinets white. We sanded down the hardware and sprayed painted them a cracked bronze.  I am not exactly sure what I was thinking when I told DH to do this but I do remember the look I got.  It was not pretty.  But, he did what I asked anyway.  Do I regret the white painted cabinets?  OH MY GOD! YEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSS!

White painted kitchen cabinets are great if you never use your kitchen.  Seriously.  You can not keep them clean and everything shows!  Even with my poor eye sight, I can see the crap on them.  And it is not for a lack of cleaning them.  I scrub them weekly, but once they are stained, forget it.  It stays. I have spots on my cabinets where I have actually scrubbed the paint off trying to get them clean!  And the kitchen, to me, always looks dirty.

So, I was expressing my unhappiness with my cabinets to my DH the other night.  We discussed ripping out the cabinets, and getting new ones.  We discussed just painting the ones we have a different color.  The cost of each and how we would go about doing this.  The floor needs to be taken up joist reinforced, and new flooring laid down. We discussed our options.  We have not decided on anything yet. but either this year or next year, the kitchen will have something done to it.

My advice: NEVER, EVER paint your kitchen cabinets white...unless you NEVER use it...then go ahead.

Since my dad passed away Christmas Eve, a LOT has been going on and more is yet to come.  However, I have decided to declutter the house.  I started today on the living room.  I can not believe how much trash three people produce!  I got most of it done, except for washing the curtains.  It's super cold here right now, so that will just have to wait until it warms a bit.   I finally got all the inside Christmas decorations put up.  DS and I went through all of the decorations and got rid of a lot of it.  Tomorrow, I will start on my kitchen.  Sometimes it's just a good idea to reassess what you have, what you love, what you can part with and scale down.

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