Kitchen Remodel

Stage 3: Extending the countertop

For those of you who have not seen the progress on our kitchen posts well let me share the posts so that so see all the stages of it:

Stage 1:Removing the nicknack/ catch all/ phone wall

Stage 2: Making room for a Pantry

Now that we have moved the cabinet from the top and bottom on the one side of the room we took the bottom cabinets and moved them over to the other side. We decided that we should extend the countertop and make an area so that we could have two areas for stools to sit. I had found on Pinterest a DIY butcher block countertop. Our currant countertop had been irritating me for the all of the time that we have been in the  house (5 years).

Originally we were going to add a lazy susan and have an island... but then we decided to the extension and then eventually add to bar stools for homework for the kiddos or just relaxing, reading the paper and having a cup of coffee! That sounds perfect!!!!

So my husband took some wood and extended the counter tops. We eventually took off the existing counter tops off once the put three pieces of wood on. Then we got some wood putty and filled in any holes. After that is was time to for my husband to become Mr. Sandman! He sanded the wood down and made the most perfect edges possible. 

 After that we stained the wood to our color of choice, a red mahogany shade. I still love this color! Other than the stink of stain and the epoxy these were my favorite jobs. This job was very rewarding because once you stroked the stain onto the wood you could see immediate results.  This was by far the most rewarding part of the job.

 After we were done with the epoxy paint it was time to paint the cabinets. With the darker wood on the countertops on top we choose to paint them white and to spray paint the handles black. Wahoo for painting wood white, even with two layer of primer it still sucked it up. It took lots of layers, but we are very satisfied with the results.

Hopefully now I have your creative juices flowing!

Post if you have any late night changes you have done while the kids are sleeping!