Kitchen Cabinet Renew

 Our home is 41 years old.  We needed to renew our cabinets in our kitchen.  We had them re-stained about 10 years ago, but they needed it again.  

We hired a local guy to put in slide out drawers in our bottom cabinets.  What a great improvement!  We did lose some space by doing it, but it was nice to get rid of stuff we don't use that much.  We are loving these drawers!  We also had him repair our silverware drawer that hasn't worked right for years.  I sometimes go in the kitchen and just slide it in and out, in and out because it is so nice now!

We then had another company come and take all the cabinet and drawer fronts to stain them.  We had been working toward this for several months.  Ken and I had very different opinions on how to finish them.  I wanted to paint them white.  Ken did not want to cover the beautiful wood.  We both felt pretty strongly about our opinions.  I finally relented.  They pre-stained two of the drawers to choose between.  We chose the lighter, hoping some of the yellow would be darkened.  I was so nervous as I waited to see the final product.

It was quite a job to empty out all of the cabinets and drawers.

They were in our home doing the onsite staining and reattaching the newly stained cabinets on one of the days of our Gabrielsen reunion.  We came home to find this:

We both are very pleased with the result.  We then had the first guy come back and install new shelves in all of the upper cabinets as the shelves were old and worn.  Then we started the process of refilling all of the cabinets.  It actually isn't completely done yet.  We still need to sort the cookbooks and the tablecloth cabinets and a couple of others and put what we keep back in.  It's been quite a project, but we're so happy to have it almost done.