You’d be surprised how easy it is to adjust to a kitchen without cabinet doors and front drawer panels – especially with how nice the weather has gotten recently. But, the cold and rain last week put me back on task and I had the opportunity to finish painting some of the cabinet hardware and start putting things back together.

We saved all of the original hardware, cleaned it, and repainted it with several coats of spray paint.

The dark finish on the cabinets was de-glossed, primed, and then painted with a cabinet paint.

I finished the top row of cabinet doors before I was drawn away to a different project (more on that tomorrow). The next rainy day I’ll work on putting the front drawer panels back on. We’re still waiting for the flooring to be installed. Once the old flooring is torn out and replaced I’ll put all the doors back on the base cabinets – there’s no sense in putting them on now and having them scuffed or scratched during the floor installation.