{"id":3029,"date":"2019-03-01T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thezakariagroup.com\/painting-your-kitchen-cabinets-is-not-all-sunshine-and-rainbows\/"},"modified":"2019-03-01T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T16:30:00","slug":"painting-your-kitchen-cabinets-is-not-all-sunshine-and-rainbows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thezakariagroup.com\/painting-your-kitchen-cabinets-is-not-all-sunshine-and-rainbows\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting Your Kitchen Cabinets Is Not All Sunshine and Rainbows"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<style>\np.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000}\nspan.s1 {font-kerning: none}\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"typeset--default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.apartmenttherapy.info\/image\/fetch\/f_auto,q_auto,w_640,c_fit,fl_strip_profile\/https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/pixtruder\/original_images\/e8c0927d8a7e255f0916204d4a1731f5674a4af9\"><\/div>\n<p>\n\t         If I had to pick one thing that made the biggest difference when I sold my last house, it was this: Painting the old kitchen cabinets. To be honest, I should have just replaced them, but we didn&#8217;t have the budget to do that, so I did the next best thing. I painted them tuxedo-style, with an inky blue on the bottom and light blue-gray on the uppers. It looked great, and my house sold in days.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t    It wasn&#8217;t the first\u2014and I&#8217;m sure it won&#8217;t be my last\u2014time painting cabinets. It really is one of my favorite ways to transform a kitchen on a budget. But this particular DIY project is also not all sunshine and rainbows. From my experience, here are some drawbacks you should consider if you decide to do this yourself.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apartmenttherapy.com\/painting-kitchen-cabinets-problems-267193?utm_source=RSS&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Category%2FChannel%3A+Main\"><strong>READ MORE \u00bb<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I had to pick one thing that made the biggest difference when I sold my last house, it was this: Painting the old kitchen cabinets. To be honest, I should have just replaced them, but we didn&#8217;t have the budget to do that, so I did the next best thing. 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