Transforming Cabinets and other projects

Dan's mom came over this weekend to help with yet another project! Friday we started taking off the kitchen cabinets doors at our house in Minnetonka and we just finished putting them back up and its Sunday night. We stripped the old stain, cleaned them off, and primed them on Saturday and today we painted two coats and put them back up. It looks great!

Here is the before picture:

Priming, we tried to tint it black but they wouldn't go that dark so the primer was blue!
Working on the doors in the basement
The finished product!

Now we just need to put on door knobs and pulls and then Dan moved up one of the cabinets so we can have an over-the-range microwave. He ordered it and it should be here in a month. Then when Dan's parents get into their house and order granite countertops we'll do the same and with a new sink and faucet our kitchen will really be transformed. But, this was a big first step!

Over Christmas break, Dan's mom came up again and we painted the living room a delicious color of green called sweet daphne. It really brings out the black furniture and now the black cabinets in the kitchen! It made me so excited to have freshly painted walls that on New Year's I painted the basement!

A couple weekends ago Dan decided to put lights under the cabinets at the lake too. The extra light on the countertops is so nice. Good job, Dan!