faux painting on kitchen cabiniets

yes, I know this does and will  illicitie cries of shock and woe....You cannot paint a cabinet they say!  Now what is the punishment for such an atrocious crime? Not fitting in and being mocked by my neighbors is not punishment for me, now having my hands chopped off for the horrendous crime would indeed be something worth mourning....but WAIT!  We are not merely painting the cabiniets but creating beautiful art with them in many steps.  We will show you how to do this in your own homes! It is so much easier than it appears or what people have told you.  You now hold the key to thrifty design right in your hands............................

           These are the pictures taken after all of the steps. 

1. wash cupboards down, use liquid sander on them and let dry

2. Remember to take off all the cabiniet doors and use sander of them too

3. Then Paint your cupboard, let dry 8 hours and paint again

4.after 16 hours you can start to deglaze.  This is the project that makes the cupboards look beautiful and can be put on many different ways.  We have a couple more back cabiniets to do, so we will be having a tutorial for you to watch how we put glaze on.

5. After glaze dries, you poly them, not once but twice.  You have to wait 24 hours to use the cupboards

Faux tile kitchen backsplash

Kitchen backsplash renovation...Faux tile

Kitchen backsplash renovation...faux tile with wildflowers...I would put a closer picture but we do not have one...this was the first faux backsplash my mother did, and by far my favorite...I love wildflowers!

kitchen island redo's

First redo of the kitchen island...Faux tile...paint, patience and poly

second remodel....faux granite...more paint, patience and poly

Faux tile and faux granite

The island in the kitchen...believe it or not this was green formica!  Everyone told my mom..."You can't paint countertops!" But she didn't listen, this was her first countertop renovation...faux tile, All it took was a vison, paint and lots of poly!

The island in the kitchen...second time around. Now, she decides that she would try her hand at faux granite...beautiful!  We will be posting tutorials on how this is done soon

behind the sink, faux tile...This is the most recent renovation of the backspash

faux granite on a table...

The Great Compromise

 When my husband Dennis and I remodeled our bathroom I wanted to put in a nice mirror over the sink, I also wanted to put in a vessel sink but that didn't happen. Anyway, Dennis wanted a medicine cabinet which was practical but to me a medicine cabinet falls into the same category as a big, overstuffed, Lazy-boy recliner. Yuck! We had a design dilemma. I eventually gave into my husband and bought a tri-mirrored medicine cabinet and I had our carpenters, yes we actually had someone do the bathroom this time, install the cabinet inside the wall so the mirrors were somewhat flush. I then purchased some of that cheap plastic molding and had them build a frame on the wall around the cabinet mirrors. I measured out about 1-1/2 inches from the frame and taped it off and using a sponge type stencil tool sponge painted black and copper paint on the frame and out to the tape. When I removed the tape from the wall VOILA!!  Dennis had his medicine cabinet and I had a fairly nice looking framed mirror.