Rescuing and Reviving a Glazed and Distressed Kitchen

In the early 2000's glazing and distressing kitchen cabinetry was all the rage. So much so that many homeowners and daring DIYers tried their hand at glazing their own cabinetry. Some with mixed results. Such was the case with one of our recent kitchen projects.

Heavily glazed and distressed cabinet

Before- Heavily Glazed and Distressed

The glaze on these cabinets was making the kitchen look dirty. The distressing was deep and probably done with an electric sander leaving deep gauges in the wood.

Kitchen Cabinets before updating looked dingy and dirty

After- Clean and Bright

We cleaned up these cabinets, filled in some of the deep gauges with wood filler, primed, painted and top coated for a new bright clean look. We used one of our favorite creamy white kitchen cabinet colors- Sherwin Williams 7008 Alabaster. This color looks great with brown and yellow toned stone and granite.

Clean and bright cabinets make for a dramatic update

painted kitchen cabinets are cleaned and bright

After painting the cabinets are clean and bright

Updated Kitchen- Clean and Bright

We also painted the island which the homeowner was on the fence about. See how lightening up that dark color really brightened the whole space?

Dark Island Before

Island painted Sherwin Williams 7008 alabaster

This Alabaster island really brightens up the whole kitchen.

Cabinet Glazing done right

There is a place for glazed cabinetry in an updated kitchen. A glazed cabinet can look fabulous and current IF done by a professional. Check out this post I wrote all about GLAZING.