The Cabinet Fiasco

I never imagined it would take so long to get "after" pictures of our kitchen. Everything except our cabinets has been done for a while now. We thought the cabinets would be done and hung (and they were, sort of) this past weekend. But now we are back to square one.

We had wanted to glaze our cabinets with a somewhat dark color so that they weren't so white in contrast to our new faucet, knobs, and light fixture which are all an oil-rubbed bronze finish. We really just wanted the glaze to show up in the edges and decorative inset in the cabinet doors. The lady we hired to do the glazing turned out to be a nightmare. She put the glaze on way too thick over the entire cabinets and on top of that they were very smudged and not professional looking. We thought it was bad and Brett talked to her about making them lighter but she really didn't follow through. He had even showed her pictures as examples of what we wanted before she started. I thought that maybe once we got them all hung and the hardware on they wouldn't look so bad so Brett's poor dad got them all up last weekend. Unfortunately that didn't really help and even our realtor came over and said that we would have to change them.

I meant to take pictures before we took the doors back off but Brett was too fast for me. Here you can sort of see them in the background. They look a lot darker in person and there are a lot of smudges, lines, and imperfections.

So now we are having this same lady come back tomorrow and Friday to get rid of this disaster. She is going to paint them back to the original color. We will only have to pay her the second half of her fee if we approve of the job she does. I am really hoping it isn't sloppy but I don't have a great feeling about it. We just want to get this done so we can get the house on the market next week!