Project : Gain the courage to beautify the kitchen

I've been contemplating painting our ugly, stock kitchen cabinets for about 6 months now. I always work up the courage to do it the during weekend and then chicken out the friday before. Well, lets face it, cabinets are really expensive, and we're not trying to stay in this house forever so if it doesn't turn out good, then we'll have to invest in new ones somewhere down the line.

While cleaning the bathroom the other day I was thinking, "God I really really hate these stock bathroom cabinets"..sound familiar?  Especially the one in our half bath. It takes up half of our bathroom space and, let's face it... It's quite ugly. So I thought of this BRILLIANT idea....If I hated the bathroom cabinet anyway, and were already looking into getting a pedestal sink..then why not test out the painted laminate cabinets for durability and appearance until we can afford to replace it? Lets just say I'm surprisingly pleased with how it turned out. And it wasn't too hard! I did make the mistake of letting it dry on newspaper and the paper got stuck and fused to the doors. I sanded and painted over it the best I could but thank got that was on the inside of the doors only. I'm still going to wait until after Thanksgiving to attempt the kitchen, just to see if the paint will chip and to make sure they are easy to clean.... but I  have already picked out the new color scheme for our kitchen!!! I'd say Project : Gain the courage to beautify the kitchen went off with out a hitch!!!

I forgot to take a before picture of the half bathroom's cabinets but, have no fear, every cabinet in my house is the exact same ugly stock cabinet...

...Here is a picture of my upstairs bathroom's cabinet. Bask in it's beauty...

2 days, 3 times using a loud power sander, and 4 coats of paint later...and we have a finished project!

Here's are the colors for the kitchen I picked out, lets just say... I'M SUPER EXCITED!