Rick and the Carmichael Decorating crew have pretty much finished up painting the kitchen cabinets. They spent most of yesterday re-attaching cabinet doors and preparing the first floor for wall paint. The photos below show some of the kitchen cabinetry with the new white enamel. First a wide shot of the corner cabinets and the end of the island.
Next a couple of close shots of the cabinets that capture the really WHITE feeling in the kitchen. Rick has done an amazing job getting a beautiful smooth finish on the cabinetry. The white enamel is of course just the beginning of the final “distressed” white finish the Carmichael crew will be applying to the cabinetry in the mudroom, first floor laundry, and kitchen. The next steps include a brushed coat of glaze (bronze?) and a polyurethane clear coat on top. Rick has prepared a pair of sample door panels where we will fine tune the glazing and clear coating process before moving on the the “real” cabinets.
The two photos below show examples of the sort of “distressed” finish we hope to achieve. The painters who produced these results did a nice job of applying the glaze in a “subtle” manner. If anything we hope to produce results that will be even more subtle. The cabinetry in this example is built using “full-overlay” drawers and doors and hidden Euro-style hinges. We are using “full-inset” drawers and doors and exposed butt hinges (seen above) which I think combine to make a much better a farm style look.
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