We appear to have lost our digital camera. Sigh. We remember taking pictures at Adam and Glennae's wedding, but nothing after that.
There's nothing like losing something semi-valuable to make you feel like a little kid again. I feel like hanging my head and rubbing my shoes in the dirt, while some Authority Figure (who is a combination of my dad, my Grandpa Schwarzkopf, and my eigth-grade history teacher) tells me that people who lose things like this don't deserve to have them in the first place.
But these things happen. But this time, they're happening in mid-project, so we can't offer any "during" pictures of the cabinets. I'll have to be descriptive in the meantime.
Our kitchen is currently in chaos, with all the contents of the cabinets emptied, and only the really essential things, like coffee and wine glasses, on the countertops. I've primed the interior of the cabinets, so it's kind of splotchy and white. The frames are still pine-colored, with wood epoxy patching all the holes. Craig manfully ripped down the scrolled piece of wood over the sink, exposing a very 1950's light fixture that's seen better days.
We ended up working with oil-based paint, on the advice of a very helpful gentleman from Abbott Paint & Carpet in St. Paul. (A paint store that knows their stuff is a great resource - they also helped me with the front door project.) Apparently latex paint will always be a little tacky where surfaces touch, but oil-based paint will not, and will hold up a bit better. I'm sure we'll appreciate this when our house doesn't stink like oil primer.
We've also ordered oil-rubbed bronze hardware from a pair of eBay vendors. We ended up getting all of the necessary hardware for about $130. We were excited to receive the box of hinges last night, but then discovered that we ordered the standard hinge, when what we needed was the lipped hinge. Oops.
Well, the wrong hinges are winging their way back to Tennessee to be exchanged, and we're planning on sanding the frames, priming them, and painting those and the cabinet interiors this weekend. Hopefully we will have plates in our cabinets again early next week.
