Day 12 - last coat on the back.

Ryan is just about done with the upper cabinets and hopefully by tonight they will be ready to be painted.

Today I painted the 2nd coat on the backs of all of the cabinets. I didn't use a stitch of bondo on the back so there is still grain showing. Who cares, it's the back.

As soon as they were not tacky, I flipped them over. I wss ready to get going on the fronts then I saw big gray clouds coming in, so we quickly brought everything into the garage where I gave the fronts another good sanding and paid extra special attention to every little bump and scratch. I did bondo on a few cabinets.

Then I caulked the seam between the cabinet moulding and the flat part of the cabinet. I used trim caulk and the handy little caulk scraper and a heck of a lot of baby wipes.

I spread the caulk somewhat thinly on the edges.

Then I did the 90° round edge of the scraper and scraped a lot of the caulk goo off. 



Then I took a baby wipe and wiped the rest of the excess caulk.

I did this on all of the cabinets. The reason I did the caulking is because I noticed on a few of the cabinets that there was some separation between the moulding and the back piece. I didn't like that look. Ryan calls it dimension, I call it ugly, old cabinets.

I wanted to get the fronts primed tonight, but the caulking took a lot longer than I expected. So, in the morning I will prime with the undercoat, sand them with the 320 prime them again, probably do that twice. I want 3 coats of primer and likely 3 coats of paint. We will see how patient I am. It's supposed to rain on Saturday so I have to be done by Friday and bring those things in for good.

In the meantime, Ryan got all of the upper cabinets made, and screwed to the walls. He put a piece of trim over the seam of the existing cabinets and the new ones above. I have to go lighting shopping tomorrow, so we can get some lights in these new boxes.



He also did a quick mock-up of the new crown moulding to see if we will like it. I would say L.O.V.E. Ryan is so awesome and takes the extra time to make sure things look perfect. Part of it comes from his profession, but a lot of it is just who he is. He pays close attention to detail and he is meticulous when he builds something. It used to drive me bonkers with how long it took him to make something, but now I appreciate it, because everything he makes, is always stunning.


Tomorrow is primer and the first coat of paint for the front, and the same for the upper cabinets. Will keep you posted.