Saving My Old Kitchen...

[High_Plains_Drifter]

Guess I'll pop back on the board with this post. My house was built in 1948. It's just a little house but cozy. Much of it has been remodeled but the kitchen is sad. It has old white cupboards that I found just disgusting. So, I have tore into them. I have a massive Harley Davidson sticker on one wall since I retired from HD, and I'm going to make the rest of the kitchen Harley theme.

Cupboard doors being stripped of many old layers of paint...

https://i.ibb.co/NZd7vTv/20190514-123459.jpg

Got lucky, the biggest of the doors only took one coat of stripping...

https://i.ibb.co/ssxLCpv/20190514-134745.jpg

Bought the MONSTER Makita 4x24" bent sander... OMG... what a beast... made QUICK work of sanding then after stripping...

https://i.ibb.co/6sCB9yw/20190514-164409.jpg

I finished up with my little Milwaukee palm sander... another great little machine...

https://i.ibb.co/G0n2mPY/20190514-164606.jpg

Stained them with Minwax Gunstock...

https://i.ibb.co/FqT3MTq/20190514-234735.jpg

Looked high and low for new hinges, and found nothing but chinese junk, so I decided that I'd wire brush on the bench grinder all the old hinges... MADE IN AMERICA...

https://i.ibb.co/nC2KbPV/20190514-235010.jpg

Major departure from what it used to look like... but I like it...

https://i.ibb.co/VmrsYGt/Resized-20190510-101715.jpg

[Abbey Marie]

Good to see you!

The white tiles are very nice! I’d keep them for sure.

Harley themed kitchen? For sure you are a bachelor! ;)

[High_Plains_Drifter]

Yeah this is the other side of the kitchen... so, I'm going to make the entire kitchen Harley Davidson theme... I did retire from Harley Davidson as a Master Tech so...

https://i.ibb.co/fS4kkbB/20190515-002414.jpg

[High_Plains_Drifter]

That side of kitchen there with the big Harley emblem is going to get new cabinets too. I'm going to build them, custom.

[High_Plains_Drifter]

Don't know what other's tastes are but, compared to the old white crap, I think the black with the very awesome wood grain looks fantastic. I have some nice oil rubbed bronze door pulls coming from Amazon.com, but wouldn't ya know, I have to pick something that takes forever to be delivered... going to sand my nice hardwood floor with that monster Makita later too. I have to tear out some other old crap cabinets on the other side of the room, and I'm going to build cabinets for there and when I do, I'll sand the entire floor and refinish it... it'll be pretty... old wood looks really nice sanded and refinished.

https://i.ibb.co/ThDYkN8/20190515-014241.jpg

[High_Plains_Drifter]

I installed a 6 stage iSpring reverse osmosis water filter under the sink too. Been drinking lots of water when I work out now, ice water, because I hooked the ice maker in the fridge up to it too.

[STTAB]

Looking good. I love remodeling things. And it shows when you see my Home Depot credit card balance lol