French Country kitchen cabinets finally done

 After viewing the newly yellow tinted milk paint on the cabinets, in the daylight today, I was satisfied. Well almost. I decided that a very light antiquing color wash was in order. I used the Folk Art Chalk Paint antiquing wax, watered down. 

This allowed me to control the amount of wash I wanted to add. Painting it on and then wiping off with a cloth. Voila! I even did the oven door and the refrigerator....all is good now!

Here's the final effect, and I love it! I'm now moving on to installing the chandeliers, drilling holes, gluing on ceiling rose, gluing on chandeliers. Having the wing detached has made this process much easier than doing all with it secured, and my head deep inside the room upside down!

French Country Kitchen cabinets coming together

The good news is that I'm very happy with my Milk Paint Linen choice for the kitchen cabinets. I love the finish on them, way nicer than the chalk paint finish.

I had 2 coats on them, and was considering if I want to do any sort of wash or slight yellow tint to them. I ended up mixing in a tiny bit of yellow into a cup of the Linen and have now painted one coat on them. 

I also decided that the refrigerator and oven door need it, the white is just too stark. 

The range hood has been on my mind also, what to paint it. I got some copper paint and it now has 3 coats. All of this has really warmed up the kitchen.

I captured a shot with the cabinets 'hanging' to see what having one extending over the L counter would look like. I rather like it! 

These photos are really all without that 3rd coat that has a slight yellow tint, so more tomorrow when they are dry and its daylight.

French Country kitchen cabinets painting part deux

 So....I'm not happy with the finish on the chalk painted test cabinets. I went back to my work using milk paint and think that finish will much better suit the scale and delicacy of these M&R cabinets. 

I had done some spray painting this fall on a cheap dresser, and decided to apply some milk paint I had from some years ago. I was amazed at how the finish looked just after one coat...had a smooth feel. I am using a different color than I will for cabinets but here's the effect.

Here's a secretary I did years ago with milk paint, and the color is linen. It is very close to my pot board and I did my first coat of it on my test cabinets today. (the double cabinet was stained first and does have a rougher finish than the drawer cabinet - lesson learned - I won't stain my M&R cabinets first, just go right to paint.)

This shows the comparison between the more yellow chalk paint on the island with the more off white linen color of the milk paint.