Magnet Board

I totally 'lifted' this one from Gail.  I went to Walmart, bought a really big $5. oil drip pan and screwed it into the wall right below my high bar, that we don't use for actual chairs.  The kids love it (and yes, that isn't actually my kid playing with it) and all of that stuff is now out of my kitchen.  We also found out a day or two later, that this was a necessity, as our new stainless steal refrigerator is not magnetic.

Towel Hangers

This month Kelly made some towel hangers out of antique door knobs and back-plates.  She was inspired by her friend that did the wall by her front entry door all of door knobs.  Here is that inspiration picture:

 For hers, Kelly removed the door knobs from the spindle, found a short bolt to screw into the spindle and then it was secured to the back plate.  The whole things was then mounted on the wall using screws (EZ Anchors) through the back plates.

 Close Up

View of both towel hangers.

Kitchen Cabinet Makeover

So this month I decided to tackle our kitchen cabinets.  We have 70's style cabinets in our house and while someday we'd love to replace them with custom wood cabinets, we just didn't want to spend the money at this point.  So I went to Lowe's and purchased over 200 feet of molding, primer, paint, nail gun nails, and new hardware.  Scott gave me a quick lesson on using the chop saw and you can see the "final" results below.  Unfortunately, it took me about 4 coats of paint before I found a color scheme I liked (don't worry, I had to redo the entire thing only once, while the middle 2 attempts were only on 1 door).  And I still have lots of work to do on them, so not sure if I can officially count this one for March :).  Still have to apply a Polycrylic coat over everything, rehang the doors that were/are on there crooked, plus paint the interiors, and attach a few more knobs in some problem areas.

And then someday there'll be Part 2 - the countertop....

Original cupboards - left

New look - left

Original cupboards - right

New look - right