How to: Remodel/Update Cheap Builder Grade Kitchen Island - DIY Makeover Renovation
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2022
- In this video, I show how to transform a boring, builder grade honey oak kitchen island into a custom paneled, grey textured whitewashed masterpiece... on a budget!
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Great video production. Looks nice.
Looks great
Nicely done!! Amazing!
I think it’s looks really good!
Thank you!!
All the edges of the 1 x 4 and 1 x 5 at the base need to be caulked for a nice finished look. Good work!
Your little boy is learning from you.
Thanks 👍
love your channel and the music chosen
Thanks for sharing! 💯
Great job with your efforts. I would have painted all the cabinets a deep rich grey that would compliment the blue/grey counter top and not a whitewash.
Nice…
Do you plan to use a paintable caulk?
It would give a more finished look.
My wife wanted it to have the old "farmhouse" look, so it's done for now.
I love neutrals, but just cannot do Grey's anymore unless they have a tan or brown undertone that doesn't show it as a Grey color. I'd rather have white, but with. Messy husband and 2 dogs, we are going with seal skin on the lower cabinets and maybe something similar to Anew Grey, but not Grey on the uppers. Will be more tan brown Grey. It goes great with the seal skin by Sherwin Williams. Great look, but we can't do this on ours. It has drawers and cabinets doors on both long sides and one end is against the wall and the other end we used old barn wood ripped to size that we needed to cover up those old orange golden oak cabinets. Glad to see them gone gone gone in color. Now to get rid of our floors, but that will be in 2024. Sick of the golden oak floors too,so going with sonething completely different then. Looks great, you did a great job!
I'd like to do something with the rest of the cabinets eventually... but it's such a big job!
@@6thGearHouse yeah it is. We hired out for someone to build drawer and cabinet door fronts. We hired them to build the corner cabinet and drawers area Ina naked space. It's awesome. Then they also took our nook and but cabinets below the windows with granite coubtertops on top and it's our low seating breakfast and lunch bar. We eat in the dining area in the sunroom for our supper/ dinners. Qe vreally cool saddle brown faux leather kind of modern but rustic chairs for the breakfast bar where for now we have the coffee area stationed. When the sunroom is finished with bar with a sink, we will have a 4 chair bar and eat breakfast out there. We will also put our tall round table with 4 bar stools at the windows to nature watch while we eat. It's a large sunroom. We still have so much to do, but costs of lumber and supplies is just too high this year, so most of that will happen next year. We need to finish painting the exterior, the windows, put in a privacy fence on one side of our yard, from the snooping neighbors. We need to plant flower bulbs we gave each other for our Anniversary and shade loving astilbe plants. E have a bird feeder to install on a wooden post me need to buy and bury in the ground also.. We love working in our yard. We are painting walls in the family room, kitchen, nook and master bedroom this weekend. Touch up walls in master bath, laundry room, certain areas. Crown molding to install on the built in fir the family room. Yes alotbof work, but it's gratifying to know you did it yourself, it's so much less expensive too! Keep up the great work!!! You are amazing and improving all the time!!!
@@lauratruthseekingWarrior It's so daunting to list everything I want to do to our house. I try to improve one room every year. 2023's big project is a bathroom remodel!
Wait, so the guy who helped me fix my Land Cruiser several times is now helping me renovate my house?😅🧐😂😂
Nice
Prep work is the most important part. Your lucky you noticed the paint peeling on the back of the doors
Did you consider a clear finish top coat, more wipeable without affecting the whitewash.
I did not clear, but the finish has held up great so far. There was one big scratch that I did have to retouch.
I think you should use caulk to make it more seamless
I thought to too, but my wife wanted it to have an old "farmhouse" look, so it's done for now.
Like the floors. What did you use?
Thanks, we found them at our local home depot.I don't recall the brand, but it wasn't anything expensive.
Hate to be a Monday Morning Quarterback but on that end piece; wouldn’t a flush trim router bit have been easier than removing the whole piece? Looking to upgrade our kitchen island similarly, thanks for some of the pointers!
It would have been MUCH easier... but I don't have a router, yet :)
Do you finish this off with polycrylic or anything?
No I did not, just the grey paint and white wash.
What product do you use to fill in the knots and imperfections in the wood?
I mostly work on cars, so I always have body filler on hand. But that's overkill. You can get wood fillers at the hardware store that are easier to use.
prime with shellac primer don't have sand until finish coat
Thanks for the tip!!
You need to use a bonding primer and a cabinet grade enamel paint. Not a latex paint designed for walls.
Will that help any chipping or wear over time?
@@6thGearHouse yes because it creates a harder more durable finish.
I applaud anyone's effort to do home improvement but I think this finish looks very homemade; it almost looks like primer rather than the final finish. I would have gone with a solid grey (or white) paint, and definitely used wood putty to fill all seams and sand before painting. The overlay wood pieces would have a more custom look if their vertical edges were beveled with a router. I would swap out your metal outlet cover for a wood outlet cover that is paintable/stainable to blend better.
My wife wanted to have the old farmhouse look.
Yep me too. Or use vertical shiplap or old barn wood like we did for a more craftsman created look. We are not into the farmhouse decor. Was just curious about this DIY.
Did you prime the back?
Yes I did the back of the cabinet doors first, then the fronts. That way if I got any scratches on the back while setting them down to finish the front, it wouldn't be a big deal.
Very nice. The knobs bite!!! Please reconsider. Those are "contractor grade". For all that work and effect the knobs/pulls should be more contemporary and/or substantial... Why not fill, sand and paint over the nail holes for a more professional/finished look? Just sayin...
My wife wanted the "farmhouse" look. Between her changing her mind and the kids always kicking when sitting at the stools, I'll probably end up refinishing it again in a few years. At some point I'll refinish all the other cabinet as well and maybe then everything will match. This was just phase 1.
What size please
the footprint is 25" x 115"
Miter your corners if you plan to make a how to video.
Caulk, caulk, caulk for a seamless look, also at base of cabinet all around. I would have painted it a different color; I am not sure what color your walls are, but greens work very well in kitchens, like a pale olive green. Different knobs would have taken it up a notch. We are going to be painting our kitchen cabinets Swiss Coffee by Benjamin Moore after the weather cools off in FL and we got beautiful square Craftsman style knobs to upgrade from the plain round brushed nickel knobs. I feel that hand-done washes on walls or cabinets look very handmade and not classy. And a note to everyone: GRAY of any kind is now OUT. It has been wayyyy overdone for at least ten years. It is depressing and clinical in feel. STOP USING IT!! Go with brown tones like taupe or beige or cream. Lots of recently built homes still have gray walls or cabinets and it is SO annoying to go into an otherwise lovely home and see all that gray. First thing we'd have to do is paint the entire interior of the house. And those rectangular tile floors in streaky dark brown-gray that are supposed to look like wood are super UGLY! Use actual wood that looks like wood or tile that looks like tile. Be true to your materials.
I didn't caulk because my wife wanted the old farmhouse look. Once this gets old and she's bored w/ it, I'll be refinishing it again. Sorry you don't like the brown laminate wood floor, it's what we could afford after buying the house. I agree real wood is nice, but expensive. I think the floors look good enough. We painted the walls grey in 2017 when we moved in, but aren't trendy enough (and don't have the time) to repaint the house every few years as styles change. Notice how the rest of the cabinets in the kitchen are still light oak from 20 years ago... They'll probably stay that way until we win the lottery and buy new cabinets ;)
@@6thGearHouse Yeah, our interior was painted pale yellow about 7 years ago and we are not repainting either. Not for a good while. I was just saying that gray is out for those who might be thinking about painting something gray in the house. Instead, colors based on brown are coming back like beige, taupe, etc. Your island sure got a facelift. Good for you!
BROWN & GRAY ??? UMMM 😮
Caulk your seems please would look a lot better
My wife wants it to have the "farmhouse" look. When she gets tired of that style, I'll probably refinish it again and caulk all the seams.
That seam would've been better cut at 45°
Thanks, I wish I had thought of that
There is always a next time. Great work.
Ivory receptacles with white plates 🙈
You know... I never noticed until you mentioned it! What do you think would look good?
White ivory is very dated
I grew up in the electrical supply business it’s always the first thing I notice I would also change the switches to rocker switches, but that’ll cost you a lot of money to change everything when I move into a new house, I change every switch of the house every receptacle I change all the smoke detectors bathroom fans because they’re usually antiquated and if you look at them they’re probably yellowing and just look like garbage but that to me and I’m really big on dimmers for ambience I like having the full spectrum of brightness available without burning up my eyeballs lol but any rocker switch will do if you buy bulbs make sure they’re dimmable
Hmmm, it looks like he doesn't have many power tools to complete the job nicely. A palm router with the trim bit and oscillating saw may make them a little more smooth. It just looks a little too rough for me.
Yeah most of my tools are pretty old. I really should buy a router.
Splendidly to see Woodglut have new plans which helped me save some money and energy for this construction.
This color does not compliment your kitchen. It doesn't match anything.
The walls in the room are a light grey, but not sure if I showed that in the video.