Painting Cabinets

Sustainability includes reusing materials that you already have, rather than disposing of them in favor of replacements. We have adopted this in several cases, including the concrete floors and the kitchen cabinets.

We wanted to change the color of the cabinet doors - so we have been painting them a vivid red. We hope that it will look good with the stainless steel appliances and white cabinet backs. I guess that we will find out!

Kristin has been mostly taking on this project so far - she sanded all the door fronts & backs, and has started to paint them with an oil based paint, for durability. I tried my hand at painting - it seems much more difficult than latex - it is thicker, and yet leaves brush marks easily - in several places the white shines through from under the red paint. After two coats, the drawers are looking pretty good - we may still need a bit of touch up when these coats dry.