I just realized my last post was in August. Ha. I'd be a horrible blogger! I found out I was pregnant shortly after my last post (it was week of labor day when I found out) and I was so tired my first trimester so I literally did NO home improvements. When I finally starting feeling better and up to doing something it was Thanksgiving and we all know the weeks between Thanksgiving and New Years are hectic so starting a new project was not even on my radar. I'm feeling a little back to normal now and actually did a few projects this past weekend. After I took down the Christmas decor I noticed our house was really lacking in the "comfy" department so I headed to the stores to get some greenery, picture frames and pictures/paintings for the walls and shelves. Those pictures will be posted shortly. Until then, this is a project we worked on just before labor day and I'm just now posting. We decided to add some character to our kitchen cabinets, trying to give them a more custom look. I saw this done on several blogs and showed the pictures to Ryan and he knew exactly how he wanted to execute the plan so it was off to the hardware store he went.
He purchased a sheet of the cheapest wood. I think it was particle board.
We used a table saw to make the cuts. The bottom cabinets are wider than the uppers so we made the widths of the cuts a bit larger for the bottom than for the top. The width depends on the size of the cabinets. We just estimated based on what we thought looked better.
We used a nail gun to shoot it in.
Here's the bottom finished! Then there's one of the uppers we did.
Here it is all painted! Made a perfect subtle statement.
