{"id":3133,"date":"2012-05-01T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahappyhealthyhome.com\/2012\/05\/kitchen-diaries-part-one\/"},"modified":"2019-11-13T07:44:26","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T15:44:26","slug":"kitchen-diaries-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahappyhealthyhome.com\/2012\/05\/kitchen-diaries-part-one.html","title":{"rendered":"Kitchen Diaries: Part One"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nSunday, after a nice little hike to Cascade Falls<\/a>, while enjoying lunch, we thought why not tackle the kitchen cabinets.  Though we would love to tear the whole kitchen out, knock down a wall or two and replace everything from flooring to appliances, we know that’s more the 5-10 year plan. So the question is what can we do in the short term to spruce up a kitchen stuck in 1959? Repurpose the cabinets of course!  And that’s just what we did, around 1 p.m. we got busy emptying out drawers and taking off the cabinets doors.<\/div>\n
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\nNick took down all the cabinetry while I hauled everything out to our workspace in the garage. Before I could get busy sanding all the holes were filled in with hardy man wood filler.<\/div>\n
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A few doors off and only a few to go<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Everything cleared out<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
\nOnce all the doors came off we bagged all the food and moved the dish-ware into the living room aka make shift kitchen.<\/div>\n
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Our temporary kitchen<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

I busted out our trusty Ryobi Orbit Sander<\/a> and utilized the last bit of daylight, sanding all the drawers. 120 grit sand paper got the job done. I highly recommend purchasing a orbit sander if you already don’t own one. It’s super easy to use and does a decent job. I used the same sander on the farmhouse kitchen table<\/a> we built.<\/p>\n

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\nOnce 9 p.m. rolled around we decided to call it a night. Stay tune…..<\/p>\n

Kitchen  to-do’s:<\/p>\n