How do I decorate my kitchen cabinets?

Sally Alter
by Sally Alter

I (finally) painted all my old, mobile home, kitchen cabinets - phew! - but forgot to paint the insides of the doors. I have bought a lot of paper napkins to decoupage the inside of the doors but now find that they are not big enough to cover the whole space. The frame of the doors are very ugly. I would like to know if anybody has any ideas as to how to make these doors look really trendy using all my fabulous napkins? I know I can paint them, but hate to go to all that trouble. May just have to.

  6 answers
  • Maria costa Maria costa on Dec 22, 2018

    maria costa

  • Sally Alter Sally Alter on Dec 22, 2018

    What do you want to say to me?

  • Nan W. Nan W. on Dec 22, 2018

    Sally: Paint. ...in the long run, you'll probably be more satisfied!

    • Sally Alter Sally Alter on Dec 23, 2018

      Hi Nan, thanks for your reply. I guess I shall have to weild my trusty paintbrush after all.

  • Tuula - Color Me Thrifty Tuula - Color Me Thrifty on Dec 22, 2018

    I would definitely paint the insides of the cupboards. It's more work, but I think it would be better in the long run.

  • Everything Pretty Everything Pretty on Dec 22, 2018

    You could try contact paper as a fun accent.

    • Sally Alter Sally Alter on Dec 23, 2018

      Hi, Carrie, thanks for your reply. Yes, I actually bought all the contact paper because I thought that would work, but it turned out to be very time-consuming to measure and match up all the sides that I gave up on that idea. I tried using a pattern but it was very confusing. Thanks anyway.

  • Sally Alter Sally Alter on Dec 23, 2018

    By the way I painted all the cabinets with milk paint and am very disappointed with the results. You can see a lot of brush marks and the paint chipped off immediately, even before I used the cabinets. Won't be using milk paint again.