I have been so excited to share today’s post with you! We finally have the kitchen cabinets painted and photographed for you to see! If you missed the prior post where I explained how I painted the cabinets myself, you can catch up in the full step-by-step guide here. It’s not to be missed if you are thinking of painting your cabinets.
Ok, so now to the before pictures. Remember those outdated oak cabinets? Not hideous, but needing to be refreshed.
Here are pictures from the painting while in process.
And lastly, the best pictures yet. The completed kitchen!
For the time being, we decided to leave the doors off of these two cabinets to display my white dishes and glassware.
I think it looks so fresh and clean. It definitely lightens up the whole space.
This project gave me a few grey hairs and inconvenienced our family for a few weeks, but it was completely worth it in the end. It cost roughly a tenth of the professional quote we were given to have the cabinets painted by a contractor.
If you’re thinking about painting your own cabinets, the full guide with all the steps is here, and you can also read how the paint held up a year later.
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September 28th, 2015 at 5:53 pm
Looks amazing! Great job! I am getting ready to do this to our kitchen cabinets but I am way overwhelmed with all the white paint options!
September 28th, 2015 at 10:11 pm
Thanks Mallory! Big job, but can be done. Touch base when you need to hear a “You can do it!” cheer!
September 28th, 2015 at 8:43 pm
It looks amazing! Great work!
September 28th, 2015 at 10:10 pm
Thank you Kristen! Can’t wait for you to see it in person!
October 5th, 2015 at 4:51 pm
Your kitchen looks fantastic, Amy!! And the cost savings is incredible! Definitely worth the time investment, even if it did cause a few grey hairs!
October 5th, 2015 at 5:19 pm
Thanks Emily! I am so happy with it all. And glad to be done. 🙂
October 16th, 2015 at 5:23 am
Its’s amazing what a difference paint can make! Your cabinets look beautiful! I agree that they didn’t look terrible before, but WOW, the white completely gives new life to your entire kitchen!
Now I’m going to be eyeing up my cabinets!
Well done!
October 16th, 2015 at 8:37 am
Thank you Karen! I love how it turned out. Well worth the effort 🙂
October 16th, 2015 at 9:49 am
Hi, Amy ~ Your kitchen looks amazing! I’ve been wanting to paint our kitchen cabinets for along time (we have similar oak cabinets), and now that I’ve seen yours I want to start NOW! :0) I’ll definitely be checking out your how-to post. Congrats on a beautifully refreshed kitchen!
October 16th, 2015 at 12:08 pm
Thank you! I am very happy with the end result. Definitely worth the hard work! 🙂 Thanks for stopping by!
November 3rd, 2015 at 7:25 am
That white paint is exactly what your kitchen needed! It’s so open and eye catching now! I applaud you for tackling the project yourself. From what I’ve read, it’s a big job!
November 4th, 2015 at 8:16 am
Wow. Love the transformation. Painting the cabinets is such an easy an inexpensive update. Just A LOT OF work. It’s so much brighter. Looks awesome!
November 4th, 2015 at 10:16 am
Thanks Sara!! I am so happy with how it turned out! 🙂
November 4th, 2015 at 2:27 pm
Your kitchen looks so lovely. I just posted ours. We painted over knotty pine and so much more.
May 13th, 2016 at 12:09 pm
I am going to be painting my cupboards in a couple of weeks so I really appreciate all of your tips! I have the same cupboards only a bit darker and a lot uglier! I have always hated the stain but didn’t want the work of refinishing and until recently was too chicken to paint for fear of what it would happen when I try to sell my house. Fortunately, painted cabinets are the fashion so I am going for it! Your kitchen looks so clean and bright! Great job!
May 13th, 2016 at 2:39 pm
Thank you Giselle!! I love them. I think it’s a decision you won’t regret! Good luck with your project!
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June 22nd, 2018 at 11:39 pm
Your cabinets look great! Just wondering how they are holding up? Been reading a lot and going between regular paint and chalk/milk paint… and it says you used gray but your cabinets look white, is that just the lighting in your pictures? I need to brighten up my kitchen and I have almost the same countertop!
Thanks
July 10th, 2018 at 12:31 pm
Hi, Alice. Sorry for the delay in responding. We’ve been traveling a lot this summer. We are no longer in that home but I did a one-year recap post following the painting and I was pleased with how it held up. There were knicks on the cabinet used the most (trash cabinet), but I always kept a small jar of extra paint around for touch-ups. The color was a white with a smidgen of gray. It looked more white to me. It was definitely a great update!
March 17th, 2019 at 5:06 pm
Wow! It looks so great. Glad I stopped by. You are cool!
July 1st, 2019 at 10:01 am
A kitchen, much like a closet, is one of the more under-appreciated spaces in a home — you use it every day, but don’t often give much thought to how you organize it.