Refinishing Our Kitchen Cabinets - Day 14

So close!

The last four doors are stained and the polyurethane is applied and dry!  Now we just need to add the hardware, which involves drilling new holes for the handles and attaching the new hinges.  This is something that, after spending days and days with these doors, I cannot do.  It's like performing surgery on your own kid.  (Well, like a really really really mild version of that.  Like having to use the sharp tweezers to get out a splinter, but still.)

None-the-less, SPF will be doing that.  So I wait.  And the doors wait.  In my office.

But aren't they pretty?!!?

Now on to the next stage.  The final stage of the process.  The last vestiges of the Old Kitchen.  After this, everything in the kitchen will have been redone, from the ceiling to the floors.  All new appliances, new sink and counter tops, a back splash (not a new one, because there wasn't one before), and refinished doors and drawers.  (Plus painted interior cabinets, FYI.  Swanky.)

But we can't say everything until we finish the drawers and the weird pull out cutting board integrated into the cabinet face.  (Which my mom loves.  Love you, Mom!)

Here are the drawers in context.  The golden oak look is the old look, the red mahogany of the cabinet face is the new look.  And I just realized that the "new" trash and recycling pull out will also need to be finished in some way.  DRAGNET!

 I realize this image isn't that much different from the last one, but it makes me so happy!!!  When these drawers come back, they are going to be so beautiful!  Look at that rich, red mahogany!

And here are the drawers, staged and ready for SPF to do the stripping.  When we started this process, SPF did all of the stripping and I did all of the refinishing.  I know it sounds superstitious, but I'm afraid that if I do the stripping on these, they won't look exactly the same.  You know, like how wearing the same pair of socks for the whole season makes the QB better or something, right?  I don't think that's super crazy.  (I do think, however, that the fan in another city that does the same thing is a complete nutter.)

Hmmmm.  Notice anything about those drawers?

Yeah, that's right, they're empty.

 So now all of our cutlery and silverware are on the buffet along with all potentially child damaging sharp things like cheese graters, apple slicers, cork screws, vegetable peelers, etc.

And on the dining room table is everything else.  A veritable plethora of unique new toys for two curious toddlers.  Those towels won't stay folded for more than 10 seconds when those boys get home, and there will be re-evaluations of the salad spoons, rolling pin, and meat tenderizer when they inevitably become swords, "pewers" (you know, like "I got you, pew, pew, pew!"), shields, or just fun things with which to hit your brother or a cat.

Yeah, that meat tenderizer in particular is looking like it should be filed on the buffet . . .