Cabinet Face Lift

Once upon a time we were house shopping... The time then came to make a decision on what we wanted to purchase. Our options were between the new spacious condo with a patch of grass you could cut with your scissors or the 50+ year old, smaller home with the beautiful and enormous back yard. We obviously went with the latter of the two. We love being outdoors and knowing that we were expecting our first child we wanted  our children to have a place to play and run around as they got older.

Once we were settled in we got to work and started renovating. My favorite project was our kitchen cabinets that my crafty husband did for us. They were painted white from the previous owners, which is a fresh look, but lacks character. We decided to step it up and give them a face lift. We went to Home Depot, purchased two quarts of paint, 2 different colors of yellow, and white casing trim.


Here are the steps to a cabinet face lift:

For this project its just just glue guns and scissors :-)
You will need a miter saw, nail gun, tape measure and pencil (don't get scared just yet, at the end of the post I did list some tips to avoid the miter saw)

1. Take all cabinets off hinges and take outside to be painted, make sure you have paper or cardboard down while painting
2. Paint all the doors the darker of the two paint colors. Let them dry.
3. When they are dry take the white trim and create a picture frame style in the center of the cabinets and outline it(don't attach the frame just yet) Note: You will need the miter saw to cut the trim at the correct angles for your frame
4. Paint inside of the frame outline using the lighter of your two colors, let it dry
5. Using a nail gun place your frame around the outline
6. Put the doors back on their hinges

My tip: You can choose different styles for the inside of your frame like painting a shape as you see above or painting the inside with chalkboard paint. If you don't have access to a miter saw and want to do it the easy way I recommend purchasing large picture frames and nailing those to the doors. You can purchase different color and style frames to sass it up a bit!

This is a "Definitely Do" for anyone who wants to give their kitchen an inexpensive face lift with tons of character!