Before The Red With SK

SK on Elderberry
by SK on Elderberry
This spacious kitchen was very utilitarian but lacked a bit of color and flash. I am here to fix that...We had remodeled this kitchen taking the 1945 kitchen space into this century.
The counters are now a chocolate concrete and the cabinets started out as white off the shelf storage.
Pantry Cabinet After Sculpturing, Painting and glazing.
The pantry is a custom built 4'x6' country style cabinet which I designed and built for the space and then painted green. Dated...It needed a face lift and a exciting spot of color.
Before Painting
Bonding priming the concrete counters.
After the base coat of deep chocolate was dry I began to stencil a damask pattern in several different colors of cocoa and light cream. When this was dry I glazed the entire counter top with a deep chocolate glaze.
The finished counters were given four coats of Spar varnish for durability. Sanding between each coat of varnish. This will be as durable as a granite counter at a much lower cost. The once a year coat of varnish will take this beautiful counter into the next century.
The cabinets were from several different decades and quality. We sanded and primed them with a bonding primer. These took four coats of high quality paint in the same red as the pantry.


When the paint was cured I sanded the edges back for a worn look. I then glazed them with a chocolate glaze and varnished.
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  • Mary McDonald Mary McDonald on Jul 02, 2017

    Your hard work really paid off. Everything is absolutely gorgeous!!! But why did you sand perfectly painted cupboards?

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