Why don't I listen???

When I took my house off the market last march, I decided it would be necessary to make some changes in my house so it felt... different. So I thought, paint, of course would be cheap and make things seem different.

So I didn't do anything. For a long time. I just sat and talked about what changes I wanted to make in my house. Ideally I would burn my gypsy neighbors house down, that would make my house and my life in this house... uh... different. But that wasn't exactly a feasible option... or was it???

Well, so this summer, I had one goal (beside the standard goal of surviving it). Painting my kitchen. Not just the walls. Oh no, no. The cabinets. So at the beginning of the summer, I painted a door. One cabinet door. Just to see if I liked it before I jacked up my whole perfectly fine kitchen cabinets. Then I sat, all summer, with one door painted. It looked great, except the rest of the kitchen was still oak. Pooh.

Lena, over at the Cheeky Lotus, painted her cabinets, to help sell her house. Even after she told me what a wonderful experience painting her cabinets was I still thought it seemed like a good idea. Yeah, real good idea. Everyone told me it was soooooo much work. I ignored. Everything I read said py someone... I didn't.

So far it looks really good. So far. Really that is a poor choice of words... so far. Because I am not far at all. It looks like I don't have all that much left, but if you knew the work that went into handpainting cabinet after cabinet, coat after coat, you would know just how much work I have ahead of me.

But, on the positive side, and there actually is one... I LOVE what is done so far. I went back and forth and around and around trying to decide what color to do, all black (which would have been my first choice but thought not everyone would love a black kitchen, and I do hope to sell this place someday) or all white, which was more classic and easier to resale. So I compromised...with myself... I did my island black and distressed it and am doing the rest white. I am going to distress the white too, if I ever finish painting them.

So enjoy the "half way there" pictures. I do think all the work is worth it. I think. Maybe. I will post pics again when the kitchen is complete... so maybe next summer.

(Imagine it with my really cool drawer pulls and knobs put on... and curtains... and new plant shelf crap... I have a loooooong way to go...)

Please ignore my messy cabinets, I have never claimed to have anything organized...

And, my microwave looks like it isn't as white in the pictures, but it is... I think... or it needs to be clean. Cleaner. In real life they look, uh, the same color. The pics don't make it look great. I thought it would be too much white, but the curtains are white and black with red tie backs and there will be lots of red accents, and a little buttery yellow because that is an accent color Ryan can dig.