Simple math, however, cured me of this emotion. It soon became clear that we paid less than $500 dollars for cabinets that one builder had quoted us $30,000.00, I am now officially proud of our home-jobber cabinets. We are not carpenters nor designers so stifle the sniggers, y'all.
I had become enamoured with this look in Eaglesham, when checking out old abandoned farmhouses and saw inside some houses right in Eaglesham and they mostly had home-jobbers painted in authentic country 50s period colours. Love it! This was exactly the look I wanted. And I also like having solid wood (impossible to get nowadays: even the high-end cabinets are pressed board- with exception of the doors).
Plywood and paint and planning (and of course time) was really all it took. Our doors are in the basement ready to install, but between the curtains for the bottom cabinets I sewed (need to add seamstress to things I am not expert at) and painted inners of the upper cabinets, I'm in no hurry.
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| painted layer of black over a layer of brown... under a few coats of white, then I sanded edges and corners to give a rustic/aged look |
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| to left of window: roosters from my grandma to the right of the window: vases from my mother in law in Holland |
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| I fell in deep like with this toe-kick look and Eric obliged *sigh* could stare at it all day... that and the chandelier over the landing on our stairs. |
