Originally posted by Beancooker: Darthfuster, I’m in Cottonwood, AZ. Doubt you have heard of it, but we are 15 miles from Sedona, AZ.
XLT, I’m now starting to get nervous about the tape. Today should be the final coat, and I’m definitely worried about the tape lifting the paint. Razor knife at the tape edge prior to pulling it up?
Ador, your kitchen is easily twice the size if mine. Honestly, the painting part is not too difficult. The hard part, and time consuming part is all the damned masking, and prep work of the wood. TSP wash, rinse. Light sanding, dust removal, etc. if my kitchen was as large as yours, I don’t know if I would have tried to tackle the job. The part where I am running into issues is space to paint. There are so many doors. I’m doing both bathrooms and a hallway cabinet as well. So having room to lay out the doors after they are sprayed so they can dry, is where I am having issues. A professional shop will have drying racks, and that would probably make life a lot easier.
Do you have a way to hang the doors using wire (like fishing wire) and utilizing one of the screws for the hinges or etc? It might help, and easy to spray when they're hanging too.
Jimmy, aside of it being 320 sq/ft or cabinet faces and I don’t have that much ceiling to hang wires, or the patience to do that...
The spraying is done!!! So is the damned rolling and brushing. It’s the home stretch! Tomorrow it’s hanging doors and getting everything back to a usable kitchen.
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Originally posted by sigmonkey: I'd fly to Turks and Caicos with live ammo falling out of my pockets before getting within spitting distance of NJ with a firearm.
Originally posted by Beancooker: Jimmy, aside of it being 320 sq/ft or cabinet faces and I don’t have that much ceiling to hang wires, or the patience to do that...
The spraying is done!!! So is the damned rolling and brushing. It’s the home stretch! Tomorrow it’s hanging doors and getting everything back to a usable kitchen.
Awesome, that was pretty quick. How does everything look so far?
Originally posted by Beancooker: Darthfuster, I’m in Cottonwood, AZ. Doubt you have heard of it, but we are 15 miles from Sedona, AZ.
XLT, I’m now starting to get nervous about the tape. Today should be the final coat, and I’m definitely worried about the tape lifting the paint. Razor knife at the tape edge prior to pulling it up?
Ador, your kitchen is easily twice the size if mine. Honestly, the painting part is not too difficult. The hard part, and time consuming part is all the damned masking, and prep work of the wood. TSP wash, rinse. Light sanding, dust removal, etc. if my kitchen was as large as yours, I don’t know if I would have tried to tackle the job. The part where I am running into issues is space to paint. There are so many doors. I’m doing both bathrooms and a hallway cabinet as well. So having room to lay out the doors after they are sprayed so they can dry, is where I am having issues. A professional shop will have drying racks, and that would probably make life a lot easier.
you can try using a knife, I normally dont have you tried lifting and edge to see what happens?
And knife it is. Started to lift the paint from the edges. I laid the tape back, hit it with a finger full of touch up paint, and I’ll knife and peel tomorrow.
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Originally posted by sigmonkey: I'd fly to Turks and Caicos with live ammo falling out of my pockets before getting within spitting distance of NJ with a firearm.
And now that it’s a week later, the project is all done. I’m quite happy with the results and Mrs. Cooker is ecstatic. I don’t think I have ever seen her so happy.
There are a few flaws, and I have a couple hours of trim to add where the cabinets meet the floors and the walls, but for the most part it is done.
So here is the before and after...
Before
After
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Originally posted by sigmonkey: I'd fly to Turks and Caicos with live ammo falling out of my pockets before getting within spitting distance of NJ with a firearm.
The next step, at some point, should be to change/update the tile backsplash.
I think the white cabinets look good with the countertops, walls, appliances, and floor, but not so much with that tile, which was clearly chosen to coordinate with the dark brown cabinets.
It seems to blend together even better in person. The quartz countertops have some tans and rose tones that come through more when standing there. It ties to the backsplash rather well.
That said, I would prefer a white and gray tile backsplash. Only issue is that the halfwits that built this house didn’t install wonderboard and use mortar to put the tile on. They growled on liquid nails with a 1/4” square notch trowel and seated the tile in that, directly to the drywall. So fixing that is going to require replacing all the drywall behind the tile with wonderboard and doing it right. So basically an additional week off work. At least it isn’t to paint!
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Originally posted by sigmonkey: I'd fly to Turks and Caicos with live ammo falling out of my pockets before getting within spitting distance of NJ with a firearm.
Excellent. Glad your wife likes it. Hope you do as well. I still like the before. After we do a couple of other little projects, we are considering redoing our kitchen dark as your's are. We had that done to the vanity in our bathroom when we had the remodel done a few months ago and we like it a lot. To each.. enjoy
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Posts: 11524 | Location: Fort Worth, Texas | Registered: February 07, 2007
Very crisp looking! Interesting that it only took a week. I have a friend with a kitchen slightly larger than yours. She hired a professional to do hers. He's been at it for a month and it's still not done.
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Posts: 30057 | Location: Norris Lake, TN | Registered: May 07, 2008
Your kitchen looked great in either color. Ultimately white is timeless and if it goes out of style you can bet it will be back in style shortly. I love the liquid nail trick on the back splash. I thought only I ran into that level of 'craftsmanship' when doing renovation work. Stuff like that used to shock and amaze me, but alas, after what I've seen over the years, it just doesn't anymore.
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Thank you all for the kind words. I really appreciate it.This message has been edited. Last edited by: Beancooker,
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Originally posted by sigmonkey: I'd fly to Turks and Caicos with live ammo falling out of my pockets before getting within spitting distance of NJ with a firearm.
I still don't know that it would be my choice, but I do like the end result. Looks very clean and modern and the colors do work well together as mentioned above. Glad it turned out for you.
I thought only I ran into that level of 'craftsmanship' when doing renovation work. Stuff like that used to shock and amaze me, but alas, after what I've seen over the years, it just doesn't anymore.
