Kitchens, vanities and built-ins we refinished in place. Where the camera stayed put, drag the handle to reveal the before.
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The oak was in good shape, so nothing came out. We degreased, sanded, primed and sprayed the cabinets. The dark countertops stayed and now read as a deliberate contrast rather than the only dark thing fighting the wood.
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Honey maple against a busy granite made the whole wall feel heavy. White doors let the stone become the pattern in the room. The appliances, backsplash and hardware are all original.
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The island had already been painted a different colour than the perimeter, which made a large kitchen feel chopped up. Bringing everything to one white pulled the room back together and made the ceiling read higher.
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Cabinet painting is not only a kitchen job. The same prep and spray process works on a vanity, and it costs a fraction of replacing a run this long. Countertop, sinks and faucets all stayed.
A peninsula kitchen with a lot of upper cabinet mass. Going white kept the granite and the acacia floor as the warm elements and stopped the uppers from closing the room in.
Sage doors hung in raw wood frames, with a beadboard backsplash in a third shade. Spraying the doors, frames and backsplash in one colour turned three finishes into one kitchen.
Cherry cabinets on teal walls left almost no light in the room. White cabinets and a soft grey wall kept the tile backsplash and wood floor working without competing with them.
Brick takes a different prep than cabinetry, but the idea is the same: keep what is solid and change what dates it. The mantel and the black doors stayed, so the brick stopped being the loudest thing in the room.
The brown glaze in every profile was the thing dating this kitchen. A flat white finish and brass bar pulls kept the existing boxes, backsplash and quartz and still reads as a new kitchen.
