Idle Hands

Nick and I recently wrapped up an amazing semi-staycation. We went to a beautiful wedding in Poulsbo WA, hung around the homestead with an old friend and fished at Lake Billy Chinook. The last weekend I took advantage of the time off to tackle one of the larger home improvement projects we had been putting off...re-finishing the metal cabinet in our kitchen.

Here is the "before". As you can see the cabinet was painted our former home owner's favorite color - dirty/muddy bluish gray (the entire kitchen walls and all used to be this color). Wonderful taste!



After MUCH stripping and scraping and sanding and buffing and sealing.....here is the finished product. To quote Nick "It looks like a thousand dollars!". I am very pleased with the outcome and glad to have literally survived the project (that stripper is AWFUL)!



Here you can see the metal detailing a bit better: