Kitchen make over!

Since we moved into our house Darren and I have wanted to give our kitchen a SERIOUS make-over. He really wanted to make new cabinets and I wanted new flooring. SOO... the other day I decided that instead of Darren having to build new expensive cabinets all summer, I'd just re-paint ours, and in time for Corbin's birthday on the 23rd this month. Well I started Thursday the 10th with the help of Ginger, and then worked on it ALL weekend with Darren. Then I finished up the door painting throughout the week and finally on Saturday the 19th we have a finished put back together kitchen.

As for the floor.. we decided to wait and take a break from projects for awhile. And for tax returns :)

This project was a lot of hard work, but totally worth it! I looked at a lot of blogs and DIY stuff for idea's and here is a list of thigs I wish someone would have told me!

1. It will take longer than 1 weekend.

2. LABLE everything. Use tape and a sharpy.

3. Remove everything from your cupboards. I tried to put a bag over stuff.. but in the end it was all covered in dust and had to be washed.

4. Remove the hardware, baggy and lable each one.

5. Get a baby sitter!

If you would like to see exactly how I did this step by step along with tips and pricing of what I paid check 

out the HUB HERE I did on it.

I know this is crappy color quality, but I just wanted to show the distress detail.

The table that Darren built

So this is our old, cheap, ugly, fake wood table before...

And this is the new top after! Darren made this new top out of alder and walnut, then just put it on top of the old frame. It is so beautiful and it adds so much to our kitchen.

I'm so lucky to have such a talented husband! I love it babe!

More home remodeling

I updated our kitchen a little bit added some vinyl lettering, a new table cloth (from Glory thanks!), a black runner (that I made) and a cool new bowl (also from Glory..) and some cool things I found at the Dollar store. You can't beat that!

We also got new couches (again curtisy of Glory) and a new ceiling fan. Darren's brother Kyle is an electrician so he came over one night and helped Darren put it up.

So shout out to Glory, thanks for remodeling my house.