My Kitchen Makeover on the cheap I bought a fixer-upper in 2008. I've done a ton of work to this house. Lately, I've had the urge to fix up my kitchen. My dream kitchen would have new granite counter-tops and new cherry cabinets, stainless steal back splash and new flooring. I don't have the money to replace my cabinets and buy a granite counter-top so I found a few creative ways to update it on the cheap. My Kitchen Before the update. First thing is first, I needed to get rid of these ugly brown kitchen cabinets. The brown made the space feel so small. The worst part was the hideous brass 1980's hardware that came with these construction grade cabinets. When I bought this house the kitchen walls were white, the ceiling was beige, the wainscoting was black with red trim and it has peel and stick flooring and beige 1980's tile. My kitchen was a disaster. The first thing I did was paint everything white. I was having a hard time envisioning a kitchen with all of the crazy colors in there. I stripped off the hardware from the cabinets and scraped off the ugly tile.This gave me a blank slate to update. I went to Lowe's and purchased some new sleek hardware for $2.00 per handle. The cabinets can be Refinished! Since I couldn't afford to replace the cabinets I decided to refinish them myself. I found the best ready made kit for me was the Gianni Cabinet Kit. I was so tired of the dark cabinets that I wanted to use a lighter color. I couldn't use Continue reading
