Cabinet doors

I've begun nesting. I'm not having a baby, this is just the first time I can really decorate something. We're not renting, we own! I still have to think about resale value and my own abilities. 

So I started "small" and tackled the bedroom first. I figure there are only four cabinet doors in there, I can handle painting those first. And if I liked it, do the rest step by step.

Here is my before and after shots:

And now the process:
I used Dutch Boy Kitchen and Bath semi gloss and I almost wish I went even more matte than that. I wanted it to be easy clean, but it is a little shiney for bedroom cabinets. I sanded each door and then put painters tape around the two mirrors. My aunt helped out and we ended up doing 4 coats over the course of an afternoon.

Paint! Too bad they don't sell it smaller than a quart, four coats only just started to make the level go down.

Getting ready to take off door pulls. There were two smaller doors for above the bed.

And two longer doors for next to the bed with mirror insets.

To take the handles off I used the same square shaped screwdriver that I used to take the doors off the hinges in the camper. I'm not sure if "square" is a normal screwdriver like flat head and phillips, or if it's the result of driving in screws, but thankfully my tool kit had the right head!

Look at all these heads!

Step 2: tape.

Coat one.

Another coat.

And another.

Besides doing the cabinets I also fell in love with this green paint from Rust-oleam (Metallic Accent paint in Luminous Pear) so I decided to try it on the handles. I did two coats and I think they look pretty good against the white. I may end up also using the green as an accent above the bed between the two real cabinet doors where they have what I call the fake cabinet door, or what most people would refer to as a panel.

Getting ready. I didn't actually use that brush.

One coat down.

Two coats, resting it on the door to see how it looks with the white.

Green's my favorite color.