We were looking forward to tackling the cabinet project but now it seems never ending. You don't really have a reason to count your drawers and cabinet doors until you need to remove them each from their hinges, sand each one, prime each one and then apply two coats of paint with a light sanding between each coat to each drawer and cabinet door. We have 26 - that's 78 coats of paint and 78 sanding sessions not including the cabinet base. We're almost done! We have to wait 24 hours between coats and on the doors we can only paint one side at a time, it's coming along slowly but surely. The second coat on the base is developing really nicely, the chocolate color we wanted is there, the grain is showing through, etc. The photo here depicts a shiny finish but that's just our camera, the finish is called low luster and is between a flat and a semi gloss.
The next morning Jen woke up and decided if she had to pick up a paint brush that day she might just find herself swerving into oncoming traffic later that afternoon. So instead she trouble shot the irrigation system with the help of our inspector and then later awesome landscaper. Hit up a few yard sales, met some new neighbors and learned about a string of brazen robberies in the our neighborhood :( She also bought and had the guest mattresses delivered (which we are now sleeping on, big improvement from the floor!), had our pool GFCI and pop-up cleaning system fixed, tested our pool water and learned so much about maintaining these foreign systems of our home. It was so refreshing to be outdoors today in the 77 degree sunny weather - ahhh, maybe Yuma isn't so bad.
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