I’m going to admit something. When I sat down to write this I felt pretty good that I didn’t have to go out in my garage and paint any more kitchen cabinets. I am really happy with the final product but the actual project takes a lot of patience and space. I have four kids, I work and I’m usually found chauffeuring my kids around. My husband also works a job that keeps him away from home 48 hours at a time. It took me a few weeks to paint all of our kitchen cabinets and I did them in three phases: bases, uppers, then just the bar. If I…

Over the years I’ve read/watched a lot of tutorials on this – the first time I painted kitchen cabinets was about 9 years ago. I’ve painted cabinets using a variety of brushes, rollers and sprayers and I’m pretty sure I’ve fine tuned my process down to a very comfortable, predictable, easy, straightforward and quality process that produces a near factory finish. Now, I’m not saying it’s perfect – because I am a firm believer that everything can be tweaked or improved, but I am saying it’s pretty darn close. Here is a list of everything that I use to get the job done (if it links to something on Amazon…