Saturday, April 19, 2008

I see a cabinet and I want to paint it black....

You know those little things in your house that you really don't like, but live with anyway? With me it was my kitchen cabinets. They were that 1970's oak and not in good shape. I'd post a picture, but realized that in the 10+ years we've lived in the house I really don't have any good shots of them because I never liked having them in the background. Think orangey, grainy, dirty, grimy, old and you will have a pretty good image.

I could strip and stain them, but since I wasn't terribly fond of the wood grain to begin with, not worth the effort. Paint? But with 4,806,3062 different colors I couldn't decide.. White simply won't work with my greasy-fingered young-uns. Red would be fun, but for about a week. Green? (I already recycle) Beige? (snore) Purple? (Yikes)
So like all good design dilemas, I eliminated everything that won't work and examined what remained... which in the end was literally the absence color.
Black.

Convincing your husband that by painting your kitchen black won't lead to a sudden desire to start going to goth shows and sleeping in coffins is not easy. Thank goodness for the google image search... there were lots of normal looking people cooking with cream of mushroom soup in kitchens with black cabinets.

Like childbirth, the process was painful and not something I'm ready to talk about quite yet. But the end result is better than I could have imagined and not something I'm ready to do again for at least nine months.