Cabinet fronts

It rained. Rain and cabinet painting outside don't go together. So we smooshed all if the cabinets in our garage and I started on the fronts. I put the first coat of undercoat on the fronts, and sanded. I did the 2nd coat and sanded. This undercoat stuff dries so quickly as I roll it on, it's unreal. I had to keep the paint tray covered with tinfoil after getting the roller wet with paint. If I didn't, a thin layer of paint on the top would dry.

What I love about it, is that as you sand it, it just smooths everything out so nicely. On a couple cabinets that still had some grain showing through I did up to 5 coats just on the main flat part of the cabinet. Then I sanded and sanded. I think I sanded for 6 hours that day. No joke. 

I had a friend say, "I hate sanding, you must love it because you have to sand so much with this project." NO! I HATE SANDING, just as much as anyone else. But if I am going to tackle a project like this, I had to go into it with the attitude of "the more i sand, the better it will look". So, I sat and sanded. 

Ask that dust in my garage got all up in my sinuses, and now I have a head cold. So lame. But it isn't slowing me down. 

We got two coats on the fronts, waiting to do it again, and possibly again. 

Ryan finished the uppers, and we got those primed with Kilz and painted. They look STUNNING! 

We just have to decide on lighting under the cabinets. We saw some LED strip lights that change color. At first we laughed about having multi-colored lights. But then we thought about how fun it would be on a child's birthday to have some funky lights going wild in the kitchen on your birthday. So, maybe we will go that route. Who knows. But i will keep you posted.