Bathroom Cabinet

Hey guys, we've been hiding out, mostly because we can't get a ton done every week.  There's this pesky work and studying we have to do, and it's a real drag.

I popped into Sherwin Williams on a day I was erranding around like a crazy person, and picked up a quart of cabinet and door paint, ProClassic Interior Acrylic Latex in Sea Salt,
a near-white that had a lovely green-gray tint.  Some bad things have been happening to our kitchen cabinets, like being used, and I wanted to regroup on the paint I thought we could use for them because something or other has not held up and the paint/primer needed to change before the top cabinets could be attempted.

The bathroom cabinet is just a pair of the same cabinets in the kitchen, so it was all of the same effect with none of that pesky finishing the initial project result.  I researched a lot, and decided to trust in the knowledge of the internet and NOT sand the bathroom cabinet down.  This means I could do it in the middle of the night!  A time I am not booked by any outside entities or needed for human interaction with Alex or confined by the concept of decency to neighbors.

I scrubbed the cabinet doors, false drawer fronts, and frame down with no-rinse TSP to get any speck of grime off, and let them dry well.  I have a dish brush set aside especially for this that fit into the grooves on our doors.  Then, I laid them out on the dining table.  My grandmother would not have minded, that woman did all kinds of projects on the table including gallons of poly.  I met them.  Also, I used a drop cloth, so it's fine.

I primed them with Zinssner 123, which I now love because I read you can recoat after one hour.  One hour?! That's so much faster than four.  I got a real leg up on time management in this project, even though the shop should not be open that late.  Both coats of primer did not happen in one night, but it was very exciting to know Jane's window to ruin my work would not be nearly as long.  The painter's pyramids came in handy here again, as I was able to do both sides and walk away so fast.

The cabinet frame was a little trickier, because I could not remove that to the safety of another room.  So I had to be quiet and not let my X Files viewing bother Alex, who has a real life and places to be.  I only have places I should try to be, and things I should be reading, and things I should be studying, but that's for the next day's Jenn to worry about.

I followed up with one coat of paint per day, because I do really try to do those other things I discussed.  This lovely man put the hardware back on and rehung the doors, added soft-close hinge adapters (purchased with kitchen cabinet supplies) to the doors, added new knobs, and added tip-outs to the drawer fronts, and I did a bit of patching and touchup.  Then, Alex went to Austin and I let the paint cure.

Overall, this was an extremely fast test project.  The paint was around $20 on promotion at Sherwin-Williams, the pulls (six, including two for additional storage we still need to determine) were $4 each, and the soft-close add-ons were in the large package of 25 we purchased for the kitchen, about $3 each.  The  whole thing came in around $50, and we have a less noisy, cluttered sink area to make our mornings (and nights!) a little smoother while seeing how we feel about the cabinet paint.

Over a month later, we're quite happy with the cabinet and door paint's durability, and I am quite ready to get back in the kitchen and wrap it up for good!