Something I don’t say often enough… thanks for reading and for your comments! To answer a few of your questions…
Painting Cabinets and updates on my kitchen project:
How to paint your cabinets varies depending on your wood species, but in my case the cabinet doors are maple. They are European (frameless, no face frame shows) meaning a majority of what you see in my kitchen is covered with door and drawer fronts. I am having the doors and drawers sprayed (matte lacquer) by a cabinet shop. The bodies/boxes of the cabinets will be brushed (and smooth foam roller rolled) by my favorite painters in the world, Bryan & Bobby. They went back and forth on whether they would use an oil based or latex based paint, I guess I’ll know when they show up at my door. (I’ll let you know.) Half my kitchen had green stained maple cabinets and the other side had clear stained maple cabinets. The kitchen is much too small for two different finishes and it has always driven me crazy. I’ve never tired of the green, I just never liked the clear maple. So, I’m going with green paint on all cabinets. I like green. I thought about gray, I thought about white, I thought about a gray-green, but really I just gotta stick with what I love… and that’s green. My counters are 2cm Uba Tuba granite. It isn’t what I would have picked. Would I love to have something else? Yes. But I’m leaving it. If I had a money tree I’d have new countertops.
I’ll do a full post once this little project is completed, but here’s a photo I took after some serious crowbar work yesterday. We couldn’t get those false drawer fronts in front of the sink to come off, so they (cabinet shop) will spray lacquer those in place. The taped up cardboard are my paint samples, I bought a quart of “Dried Thyme” & “Rosemary”, I liked the darker “Rosemary”. This wall is where we removed two wall cabinets and ripped out the soffit and will be adding T&G (tongue and groove) vertical wall panel (it will be painted white) and open shelves. We’ll add recessed lights (and under-cabinet lights beneath the lower shelf) and obviously patch the ceiling. I wonder what my engineer was thinking about at this moment…
A couple of you asked about my watch:
Michael Kors Jet Set in “horn” I almost returned it, glad I didn’t. (My husband thought it was a bit too fancy for me, but it’s growing on him.) The ‘horn’ band looks kinda like onyx… I love.
Someone asked about my Toms:
Mine are Ash. I love them. Sloaney mentioned she’d like the pink sparkly (seen above) Tiny Toms for her birthday. {DaddyBoy, you asked. There you have it, a hint.} I really like these and these too. Surely you all know by now, but for every pair you buy they give a pair to a child in need. And they are comfortable.
Sambo Mockbee: (no one asked about this, but I want to tell you)
Carol (Sambo Mockbee’s daughter) graduated in Interior Design with me from Auburn University. Her father, along with D.K. Ruth, started a program for Auburn Architecture students- Rural Studio. It takes the students out of the classroom and into the field. They design and then actually build their designs for very deserving people in desperate need of shelter in West Alabama. It is a big deal. Auburn University is very proud of Sambo Mockbee. He passed away our junior of college but his legacy lives on. Carol’s brother-in-law has been making a documentary “Citizen Architect” on Sambo and the Rural Studio of Auburn University. It will air this evening on PBS, so if that video trailer above interests you be sure to tune in tonight! I think you will all be encouraged by the compassion behind the Rural Studio.
