::project kitchen, part 2

And now onto the second installment (in a currently 2 part series) of the kitchen update. I say update, because neither thing really "changed" the kitchen all that much. This time, I took on the kitchen cabinets. No...there's unfortunately no paint involved (though give it enough time and a break down will happen...things will be dismantled, white paint will line the walls, an angry husband will sigh in disbelief) ;). For today, I decided to tackle the hardware. Previously my cabinets were rocking some serious 90's-fabulous brass.

Lighting=poor=bad camera. My apologies. Hopefully you get the idea. Now switching out your hardware could be an easy task. Just switch things out and presto, you're done in 15 minutes. But such is life that I would have these beautiful brass hinges that are very visible and a husband who's very reluctant to remove said hinges for me to spray paint.

Answer= Rub n Buff!

I'm going to go on the record saying that I'm not sure if I've properly used this product. It's not found at your major home improvement stores. I bought mine at Hobby Lobby. This makes me think I should've used it on the frame I just redid instead of these cabinets...but who's keeping track!? It worked. 3 hours later (yes...3), several used cloths, permanently damaged fingers (for the night) produced lovely silver(ish) hinges. Thus allowing my cabinets to look like this:

*sigh

Isn't the pewter just so much more calm than the "look-at-me-shiny-brass". Plus the "slightly more trendy" cup pulls are just adorable. I got my hardware at Home Depot (the only place I could find a pewter 3-in. pull). I also purchased the knobs in a bulk bag saving me about 50%. I'm eventually going to do this to all the cabinets in the house so I went ahead and bought big.

There you have it. Cabinets somewhat brought into the new millennium. Now just have to take on the finish, the door fronts and counter tops...but then we'll be good ;)