Oil based paint

Let me tell you something about oil based paint (aka Alkyd). Not the Kilz primer, but the undercoater and paint. You can't buy it in anything bigger than a quart in Salt Lake, Utah and Davis counties. The government decided last year that the chemicals in oil based paint are harmful and dangerous and so they banned stores along the Wasatch Front to sell them in anything larger than a quart. The government also made it so that stores can't sell 4 quarts at the same price as a gallon. Who knew the government could get into your home decorating business. Stupid.

Anyway, so we had to go to Park City to buy paint. But, it was a fun trip up and the leaves were just gorgeous coming down Parley's.

Anyway...

After priming the cabinet bases, it was time to get my Sherwin Williams Pro-Classic OIL-BASED environment-killing, pollution-creating in satin Alabaster paint out and get going. 

In the meantime, I showed Ryan a couple ideas I saw on Pinterest several months back where people built above their cabinets to extend their cabinets to the ceiling. They put baskets or glass doors on them. For now, we will do baskets to hold important things like play-doh, puzzles and grill accessories and lighters. So while I was painting round one on the bases, Ryan was building my cabinet uppers. We will paint those this week and put some trim between the current cabinets and the new uppers. As well as big chunky crown moulding on top. I can't wait! Squeal!