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Starting out

So we had rearranged the existing cabinets to line them up straight. We also removed the existing tile countertop that was on the top. While we wanted to go with a granite countertop, we are holding off on that until we are ready to do all our countertops at once. For now we are going to use a wood countertop we found at Ikea that we liked.

Also you will notice the holes in the cabinet doors below. We did this a while ago when our dog was a puppy. This is where her dog bed is and she sleeps once in a while. She was wondering what I am doing to her house.

It was really easy to cut the new countertop with my a skillsaw. The cut came out nice and clean. The Ikea countertop also has an end piece that we will glue on later, so that the cut end will match the other side.

Here is the back of the island. You can see we needed a longer panel piece for the back after doing the rearrangement of the cabinets. This was fine as we decided wanted to do wainscot on the back as I have always liked the look of it.

So we started by removing the back panel, and also the countertop as it had not been glued down yet. We also removed the doors on the front in preparation of the paint job.

Picking the wainscot

Here we were deciding on a backing. We deiced to go with the narrow lines like the one on the right.

We also got started on the painting while still working on the back. For the paint I went with General Finishes Queenstown Gray Milk Paint as I have used it before. I had to order it from Amazon, but it was worth it as this stuff is amazing and really coats and sticks well to cabinets. Here is a LINK if you want to check it out and read the reviews and see other peoples pictures, last I checked it still had a 5 star rating.

Here is the island with a coat of paint on the front. (And a sad looking dog who is wondering where her dog bed went.)

Next we added a couple more boards to the back to make it easier to attach the wainscot.

Wainscot is now attached and ready for some paint.

Doors and back are painted with the first coat.

Here it is at this stage with no molding on the bottom.

I decided to go with something a little chunkier for the molding then we had on the island earlier. We went ahead and painted it before putting it on the island. In the background you can see the cabinets we purchased for the wall buffet. 

I just nailed it with our brad nail gun.

Here is a better overview at this point.

Once the molding was attached I needed to go over and fill the gaps with some paintable caulk.

Here you can see the I just filled in any cracks before the final coat of paint.

Completed

Here is a final overview picture of it completed in the room.

Here is another picture with some yellow accents I added along with some green chair covers I dyed.

And just so you know, someone was really happy to have her little home back 🙂

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Sorry I don’t have as many pictures as I wanted of the progress, as I just found these on my phone from doing this a couple months ago. I decided to go ahead and post what I had.

The starting point:

Here are the paint colors I used, they were from home depot.

The colors were:

“Baronial Brown” and “Chocolate Heart”

I previously painted stripes on the wall using some extra light blue and Grey paint we had sitting around (Sorry, I don’t have the names of those paints). This was to give a better variance between the boards. Here you can see I had taped off the light blue color so I started by painting over the light brown color with the Baronial Brown. Then I went back and added some splotches of Chocolate heart. For reference the original stripes were about 9-10 inches wide.

As mentioned above started by brushing on the darker Baronial Brown color first and then brushed the light brown over it in splotches. While still wet I ran a comb through it like THESE. You can pick them up at a dollar store. When it came to a point that I wanted to end a board I would just drag the comb down to make a line.

Once I had those planks painted, I waited a couple hours and removed the painters tape to start the planks that were in between the ones I already completed. To paint these I found it easier to use one of THESE things to put on the dark paint straight rather then tape up what I had just painted and risk having issues with the tape on still drying paint.

Again going after putting down some dark using the light brown paint on top, then combing it with a brush to make the wood grain. The more you use the comb, the more the color underneath starts to show.

Here is a closeup of how it looks.

Here is a picture of the final product. I took it with my cell and plan to go back and get a better picture with the good camera.

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