A remodeling miracle...

I believe this is the first time at "Our House" that we will be showing you a project in process. Last time I wrote about our black cupboards and trying to figure out what to do with them. Bryce took a couple of the smaller cupboards and tried sanding one and then using a paint remover on another. Both of these things worked okay, but weren't great. Then he tried scraping the paint off, and I am telling you it is a miracle, but it worked! The people who painted the cupboards black did not sand the cupboards first to make the paint stay on, so it is turning out to be fairly easy to remove the black paint. I thought for sure we would paint these cupboards a different color and live with them until we could afford to replace them. But at easily $10,000 to replace, an $8 scrapper and $7 in stain is looking much better!

I can't believe I'm going to show you the inside of my cupboards, but here they are, Bryce has taken all the doors to the garage to start removing paint. We will probably be without doors for a while, and then the big scraping of the rest of the cupboards in the kitchen will take place. So that is why you are getting pictures as we go along on this big project.

Here is the freshly scraped cupboard, back to it's original self! Unbelievable! Now it just needs a coat of stain and then a clear coat so that we can easily wipe them off.
This will be one of our more time and physically intensive projects, but I think it is also going to be the most rewarding. Getting our cupboards back to their original look will easily add thousands of dollars to the value of our home and it will totally change the look of our kitchen. I am so excited to see what they will look like when they are all done!