Painting Progress

I’m getting serious about finishing a months-long project I’d like to call my worst idea ever.  One of the first things I wanted to do when I moved into my house was paint the kitchen cabinets white.  Two different types of primer, two different kinds of paint, endless drop-cloths, sanding, paintbrushes, and hours of my life I’ll never get back later…I’m still not done.  But I’d like to share a little progress.  Here is a “during” picture with my open cabinets. 

And now, I would like to share one of my best ideas ever. According to Urban Dictionary, this is the most ghetto way ever to paint your cabinets. “Ghetto… (adj.) jury-rigged, improvised, or home-made (usually with extremely cheap or sub-standard components), yet still deserving of an odd sense of respect from ghetto dwellers and non-ghetto dwellers alike.”  This definitely is improvised and contains extremely cheap and sub-standard components.  Painting cabinets on the floor in a small, cramped room on drop cloths is for the birds.  You will hate yourself and end up leaving said cabinets unpainted on the floor for months.  Instead, get yourself two cheap sawhorses, two long pvc pipes, and duct-tape those suckers to the sawhorses.  Now you have yourself a ghetto, yet very practical way to stand up and paint.  It looks like I just might finish this project by the end of the year!

Maybe when I’m done, I will have some great advice on painting your kitchen cabinets, but for now, I’ll stick with my best advice, which is don’t.