priming in addition to picture the bring down
Another Mon, another jump frontward for our kitchen. Here’sec where we were concluding week, afterwards priming in addition to picture the bring down, doors, crown molding, as well as paneling white.
And here nosotros are today, amongst the walls freshly coated with a piddling Nelson Blue (the low-cal blue color that we’ve planned on from the first).
Shall we all permit out a communal sigh of relief that the walls aren’t covered inward wallpaper anymore too there are no more than spackle holes together with raw drywall from under those cabinets that nosotros removed? Together forthwith. Ahhhhh.
Update: There take been a few questions nearly the intercom and why nosotros didn’t take away it nevertheless, only nosotros’re non certain if we’re going to retofit that with some other organization (mayhap that plays an ipod inward each room or something) then for instantly nosotros’re planning to encompass that whole wall amongst a squeamish framed out pinboard or something – so it’ll live hidden just the wiring will nonetheless live in that location for a hereafter conversion.
Getting to this was a fleck more than involved than simply getting our paint on, though. For case, yous may accept noticed that our large over-the-range microwave is straight off missing from the scene.
It’s the only appliance nosotros’ve planned to supersede as role of our Phase i kitchen makeover, since it was so front & middle inward the room, it crowded our stove, in addition to nosotros always look to prefer reach hoods over microwaves alongside vents when it comes to functioning. So we’ve replaced it with a stainless countertop version that nosotros’ll eventually get “installed” into our pantry (which just calls for an outlet to be added in in that location and so we tin plug it in). It was but $78 at Home Depot (marked downward from $139!) too that pantry solution isn’t but for phase ane, so we’re planning on using it for the long haul, even after Phase two, which is overnice.
Removing the quondam 1 wasn’t 100% straightforward, just nosotros managed. We had to unscrew it from higher up through the upper cabinet, merely the screw was recessed a few inches below the cabinet, and then our drill barely reached. Since it was so dark downward in that location, nosotros ended up breaking out the oh-then-sparse battery-powered fairy lights from Clara’s Halloween costume to supply just about much-needed illumination. #MacGyvering
I supported the cabinet from below the whole fourth dimension and then when it eventually came lose from the screws that Sherry was removing from above, I could lead it downward safely. That puppy was not low-cal. Probably all thedried nutrient splatters within wiring in addition to material.
Once nosotros unscrewed the mounting bracket from behind the microwave, nosotros besides had this sometime vinyl backsplash to scrape off the wall. We knew we’d prefer a seamless painted wall dorsum there for this stage of the kitchen’second transformation since we actually had a painted wall behind our commencement menage’second fully renovated kitchen, as well as it held upwardly good thanks to the paint beingness overnice together with wipeable – fifty-fifty alongside spaghetti splatters a enough.
The pliable canvas of vinyl came off really easily (Sherry only used a spackle knife to pry it off) simply it left the wall pretty pock-marked behind it. Thankfully it wasn’t anything a petty spackle couldn’t hold.
We already had the spackle out because at that place were enough of holes about the room to live filled (in addition to sanded in one case dry). This is a terrible iPhone picture, simply you tin can kind of see the extent to which approximately of the walls were boom-holed. We’re talking twenty inward a 3 foot radius.
We finished all of our patching right before heading off on a whirlwind route trip to New Jersey for Thanksgiving, and so it wasn’t until we got back on Fri afternoon that we could bust out the primer for our get-go coat (which is what many of you saw in our Instagram feed that even).
Even though nosotros were picture a calorie-free colour over an already low-cal wall, we chose to do a primer coat first for two reasons:
We knocked out our primer coat during Clara’s nap that afternoon using our common Sherry-cuts-in / John-rolls organization, which took the room from this…
…to this. Don’t heed the piles of material that we shifted to the eye of the room, away from the walls. But much meliorate, correct?
That photograph was taken Saturday forenoon, right before we broke out the Nelson Blue paint.
One matter we did to make our job (well, Sherry’sec chore) a chip easier was that we strategically taped off a few tight spots. Since it’s hard to squeeze into the gap betwixt ii doors, for example, we set tape along the border of the door frame to protect the confront of the molding from getting pigment on it. It meant that Sherry could focus on making sure she got total coverage on the wall without worrying most messing up the crisp white molding adjacent to it. And inwards less tight spaces, she’sec swell at but freehanding things (7 years of being the cutter-inner inward the human relationship tin do that to ya).
We as well decided to pigment a brace of the eyesores inwards the room – like the yellowed doorbell box and an erstwhile call jack side by side to the intercom box, which y’all can encounter two pictures downwards.
We originally worried the Nelson Blue was a flake as well faint, merely it definitely showed upwards a fleck more than distinctly once it began to dry out.
We beloved the color. In fact, it about feels similar a nod back to our beginning kitchen’sec wall color – although this ane is a bit lighter as well as has more dark-green to it, in addition to the horizontal paneling around the bottom one-half of the room adds a lilliputian something extra. I’ll admit it’s a fleck difficult to fully appreciate the new color patch the room is held back past things like the countertops, the cabinets, together with the floor (we’re definitely inward that “center” phase, so it should start making more sense as we tackle other things on our listing).
And we tin definitely celebrate the fact that nosotros’re a squeamish looooong manner from where we started.
When you expect at it from certain angles, y’all can nearly pull a fast one on yourself into thinking the room is a lot closer to done. For instance, the opinion from the front door is much improved.
And the trivial breakfast area is shaping up to live a prissy combination of white trim back + horizontal planking + bluish walls + rustic forest. Just ignore the large intercom on the wall as well as the imitation brick floor, mmkay?
So hither’sec what our kitchen to-make listing is looking similar at once. We’ve officially crossed ix things off too have nine more than to go… close to of which are a lot easier than the nine we’ve already done (switching out lights too hanging shelves are a welcome relief after all this priming together with painting – although that 15th bullet is going to be a multi-pace multi-twenty-four hour period extravaganza).
*To read why nosotros’ve chosen these steps for Phase i (for instance, why nosotros’re picture the cabinets, why we’re non going to endeavour to paint the linoleum, too what’s on the agenda for Phase 2) at that place’sec lots of background information in this mail for ya.
If y’all’re having problem picking the correct color to paint your room, check out these detailed deep-dive posts about our favorite paints:
Sherwin-Williams Extra White
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And here nosotros are today, amongst the walls freshly coated with a piddling Nelson Blue (the low-cal blue color that we’ve planned on from the first).
Shall we all permit out a communal sigh of relief that the walls aren’t covered inward wallpaper anymore too there are no more than spackle holes together with raw drywall from under those cabinets that nosotros removed? Together forthwith. Ahhhhh.
Update: There take been a few questions nearly the intercom and why nosotros didn’t take away it nevertheless, only nosotros’re non certain if we’re going to retofit that with some other organization (mayhap that plays an ipod inward each room or something) then for instantly nosotros’re planning to encompass that whole wall amongst a squeamish framed out pinboard or something – so it’ll live hidden just the wiring will nonetheless live in that location for a hereafter conversion.
Getting to this was a fleck more than involved than simply getting our paint on, though. For case, yous may accept noticed that our large over-the-range microwave is straight off missing from the scene.
It’s the only appliance nosotros’ve planned to supersede as role of our Phase i kitchen makeover, since it was so front & middle inward the room, it crowded our stove, in addition to nosotros always look to prefer reach hoods over microwaves alongside vents when it comes to functioning. So we’ve replaced it with a stainless countertop version that nosotros’ll eventually get “installed” into our pantry (which just calls for an outlet to be added in in that location and so we tin plug it in). It was but $78 at Home Depot (marked downward from $139!) too that pantry solution isn’t but for phase ane, so we’re planning on using it for the long haul, even after Phase two, which is overnice.
Removing the quondam 1 wasn’t 100% straightforward, just nosotros managed. We had to unscrew it from higher up through the upper cabinet, merely the screw was recessed a few inches below the cabinet, and then our drill barely reached. Since it was so dark downward in that location, nosotros ended up breaking out the oh-then-sparse battery-powered fairy lights from Clara’s Halloween costume to supply just about much-needed illumination. #MacGyvering
I supported the cabinet from below the whole fourth dimension and then when it eventually came lose from the screws that Sherry was removing from above, I could lead it downward safely. That puppy was not low-cal. Probably all the
Once nosotros unscrewed the mounting bracket from behind the microwave, nosotros besides had this sometime vinyl backsplash to scrape off the wall. We knew we’d prefer a seamless painted wall dorsum there for this stage of the kitchen’second transformation since we actually had a painted wall behind our commencement menage’second fully renovated kitchen, as well as it held upwardly good thanks to the paint beingness overnice together with wipeable – fifty-fifty alongside spaghetti splatters a enough.
The pliable canvas of vinyl came off really easily (Sherry only used a spackle knife to pry it off) simply it left the wall pretty pock-marked behind it. Thankfully it wasn’t anything a petty spackle couldn’t hold.
We already had the spackle out because at that place were enough of holes about the room to live filled (in addition to sanded in one case dry). This is a terrible iPhone picture, simply you tin can kind of see the extent to which approximately of the walls were boom-holed. We’re talking twenty inward a 3 foot radius.
We finished all of our patching right before heading off on a whirlwind route trip to New Jersey for Thanksgiving, and so it wasn’t until we got back on Fri afternoon that we could bust out the primer for our get-go coat (which is what many of you saw in our Instagram feed that even).
Even though nosotros were picture a calorie-free colour over an already low-cal wall, we chose to do a primer coat first for two reasons:
- The areas behind the cabinets that we took downwardly had never been primed or painted, and it’s ever adept to prime number drywall before painting it.
- Walls that haven’t been painted for several years may soak upward more pigment (every bit we experienced when picture Clara’second room) too we’d rather it soak upwards extra primer instead, since it’s cheaper than pigment (ane coat of primer + ii coats of pigment is almost e’er cheaper than three coats of paint because you lot unremarkably necessitate to purchase more than ane gallon of paint for more than than ii coats).
We knocked out our primer coat during Clara’s nap that afternoon using our common Sherry-cuts-in / John-rolls organization, which took the room from this…
…to this. Don’t heed the piles of material that we shifted to the eye of the room, away from the walls. But much meliorate, correct?
That photograph was taken Saturday forenoon, right before we broke out the Nelson Blue paint.
One matter we did to make our job (well, Sherry’sec chore) a chip easier was that we strategically taped off a few tight spots. Since it’s hard to squeeze into the gap betwixt ii doors, for example, we set tape along the border of the door frame to protect the confront of the molding from getting pigment on it. It meant that Sherry could focus on making sure she got total coverage on the wall without worrying most messing up the crisp white molding adjacent to it. And inwards less tight spaces, she’sec swell at but freehanding things (7 years of being the cutter-inner inward the human relationship tin do that to ya).
We as well decided to pigment a brace of the eyesores inwards the room – like the yellowed doorbell box and an erstwhile call jack side by side to the intercom box, which y’all can encounter two pictures downwards.
We originally worried the Nelson Blue was a flake as well faint, merely it definitely showed upwards a fleck more than distinctly once it began to dry out.
We beloved the color. In fact, it about feels similar a nod back to our beginning kitchen’sec wall color – although this ane is a bit lighter as well as has more dark-green to it, in addition to the horizontal paneling around the bottom one-half of the room adds a lilliputian something extra. I’ll admit it’s a fleck difficult to fully appreciate the new color patch the room is held back past things like the countertops, the cabinets, together with the floor (we’re definitely inward that “center” phase, so it should start making more sense as we tackle other things on our listing).
And we tin definitely celebrate the fact that nosotros’re a squeamish looooong manner from where we started.
When you expect at it from certain angles, y’all can nearly pull a fast one on yourself into thinking the room is a lot closer to done. For instance, the opinion from the front door is much improved.
And the trivial breakfast area is shaping up to live a prissy combination of white trim back + horizontal planking + bluish walls + rustic forest. Just ignore the large intercom on the wall as well as the imitation brick floor, mmkay?
So hither’sec what our kitchen to-make listing is looking similar at once. We’ve officially crossed ix things off too have nine more than to go… close to of which are a lot easier than the nine we’ve already done (switching out lights too hanging shelves are a welcome relief after all this priming together with painting – although that 15th bullet is going to be a multi-pace multi-twenty-four hour period extravaganza).
Remove wallpaperMove refrigerator cabinet frontwardsRemove upper cabinets on window wall to prep for open shelvesReinstall crown molding(y’all can read about how nosotros did those offset iv things hither)Prime & paint the pantry too the door to the garagePrime & paint the trim back, crown molding, & baseboardsPrime & pigment the paneling(y’all tin can read about how we did those concluding three things hither)Prime and pigment the wallsRemove the existing microwave (craigslist it?) in addition to go a countertop one nosotros tin eventually install inwards the pantry- Install a cheap reach hood (nosotros’ve seen some like this for $xx on craigslist) to lighten upward that wall
- Patch in addition to pigment the ceiling
- Replace the florescent calorie-free inward the cooking surface area in addition to the pendant over the sink
- Replace and center the lite over the dining table
- Hang floating shelves on the window wall
- Paint the cabinets (yous tin encounter the colors we’re leaning towards here)
- Update the onetime cabinet hinges and knobs
- Get a rug for eat-inwards expanse? Possibly install peel together with stick tiles everywhere?
- Curtains for windows?
*To read why nosotros’ve chosen these steps for Phase i (for instance, why nosotros’re picture the cabinets, why we’re non going to endeavour to paint the linoleum, too what’s on the agenda for Phase 2) at that place’sec lots of background information in this mail for ya.
Our Favorite Paint Colors
If y’all’re having problem picking the correct color to paint your room, check out these detailed deep-dive posts about our favorite paints:
Sumber https://www.younghouselove.com/