While I never loved my builder cabinets, I especially hated the fake looking wood on my very standard kitchen island. So, a few years back I took a paint brush to my island thinking I might eventually redo all the cabinets. Well, life happened {and my third child} and my kitchen island literally sat half-done for years. It drove me crazy, but somehow I never got around to finishing it off.

Yes, I was too chicken to paint the front cabinet doors, so for several years (I still can’t believe it as I type it) it sat like this, with the front still in the natural color. {Can I tell you how happy I was when I saw that Thrifty Decor Chick did the same thing? Validation!}.

But, with our impending move, I finally motivated to finish the project. And you know, it was so easy I don’t know why I put it off for so long?

The finished result is so much nicer. While our grand plan was to have a larger granite piece put on the top so we could seat all 3 children at the island, we will leave that up to the new owners of this home. All I did –other then sanding, priming and painting all 4 sides (this time) a creamy white– was that I added basic corbels from Home Depot under the counter and thick baseboard trim around the bottom. Very simple updates, but it looks so much more custom now.

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