Please remind me to NEVER ever EVER...

tackle painting my kitchen cabinets again. What an extremely time consuming, ignore-the-other household-responsibility while creating, clothes destroying and carpal tunnel syndrome making experience. Day after day after day after day I paint, wipe up spills, eat a little, paint some more, holler at the kids to stay way, paint again, sleep a little, wear the same outfit (totally yuckiness), and then paint some more. It takes FOREVER! Then, silly me decided to do a little antiquing and staining/highlighting which takes even more time and then requires a final lacquer top coat.

Yet, despite the pain I am excited about my bright new kitchen. The kitchen before was pretty but just so dark (black appliances, dark oak stain, black granite counter tops, dark slate back splash, black drawer pulls and deep burnt orange walls). Since I NEED light, I just had to do something. So, out came the cream. I just cannot decide on the knob and pull colors -- I am thinking either crystal or a more modern stainless steel. I will have to post picture when I finish.

Oh, I did get some pix of the kids helping -- they are GREAT helpers and we only ruined 2 winter coats and a pair of jeans in the process before I got smart and stripped then down to their undies.