Master Bathroom Repainting

Our house has lots of dark wood. EVERYWHERE! I cant stand it and we have officially started the transformation process of painting it all and making it look more modern. We decided to start at the far end of our house in the bathroom/bedroom over Thanksgiving weekend.

Since its all colored dark wood. It of course has all gold colored hinges, knobs, fixtures etc. Like our bathroom light here.

Since we just purchased the house and are on a major budget. We decided to save additional money and spray paint all of the gold old hinges. A can of $5 spray paint...or goodness knows how much in hardware. The decision was easy for us :)

We used the Kilz Original Primer when we first started....do NOT recommend this....since we had to do 3-4 coats of this stuff.  Then for the final paint we opted to go for the Ace brand of super hard drying cabinet & trim paint- it has this nifty hardening stuff in it called "Alkatex"....mind you it takes FOREVER to dry...ideal temp is 80 degrees with low humidity...not happening in November in Seattle. Since it was still tacky after about 30 hours! We grabbed our space heaters and dehumidifier and closed off the bedroom. It helped a lot by drying it over night.

So on Sunday afternoon...we were finally able to put everything back together. We did end up purchasing little silver knobs from Ace since they were a smoking deal. We learned a lot on this project on what products and techniques work better than others.

Here is what the final product looks like. Its hard to see the light bar but we think the light looks a lot better in white and silver than wood and gold.

We have a few drip spots that dried up on us but overall Terry and I are very happy with the new look of our bathroom cabinets.

Here are the before and after photos...what do you think? You think we made the right choice here in painting? We sure do!

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