Painting Day

We started before 8AM on the Thursday morning.  When Mom first opened the primer she had me panicked.  It seemed very watery. It was a holiday here so there was no going to the store to get something else.  We stirred for about 10 minutes and it improved.  The primer ended up going on very well.  It was the Inslx oil based with alcohol.  Very fast drying (probably because of the alcohol).  So we primed all the cabinets and then all the framing in the kitchen.  The cabinets could be covered in about an hour but it took at least that long to do all the trim.

We started over again with our first coat of Cabinet Coat paint.   The cloud white color we chose is a very nice soft white.  I have white appliances so I didn't want anything too creamy.

We covered everything once and then took a break. 

I purchased 2 galllons of th Cabinet Coat paint.  I realized that I purchased way too much.  So while waiting in between coats I painted the door leading to the garage and some door frames. 

We finished a second coat of paint just around supper time.  You are supposed to wait six hours between coats.  We did not do this.  We probably did 3 hours or so.  We had the windows open, fans on and it was quite breezy.  The paint dried very quickly.  This seemed to work for us but I wouldn't recommend it unless you were sure it was dry.  Another thing to note is that we only painted one side of the cabinets.  The fronts of the cabinets were face down on foam and we did not turn over the cabinets.  We would be waiting a couple of days before we turned the cabinets over. 

So here we are :

I actually like my kitchen better already and the doors aren't even on yet!