Rustoleum Cabinet Transformations (All My Transformations)

So I wanted to try this Rustoleum Cabinet Transformations product that I read about a few months ago in Better Homes & Gardens. I decided to try it on something pretty innocuous (and that I didn't mind ruining, in case it didn't work out), so I did the two dressers in our bedroom. I used the Tudor color, which is a dark brown color. It has an undertone of purple, just FYI. But my favorite color happens to be purple, so this worked out for me.

I left the doors on the armoire (I didn't want to waste time and energy painting the inside of the doors, who ever sees them but me?!), I removed the drawers in the dresser, we moved the furniture to the garage, and I got started.

First you wipe on the chemical stripper (deglosser, they call it). I did two coats of the paint color (bond coat) after that.  This product kind of has the texture of an oil-based paint/stain, but this product is water-based). I didn't use the glaze. It is a lot of work and time-consuming, but the pieces all turned out great.

Here is an after and then the before:

The after: 

This is before:

I removed the old wooden knobs on both pieces of furniture and bought acrylic ones at Home Depot that look like glass. They turned out great!

Then I decided to embark on two bathroom vanities. These were done in Tudor, as well (I didn't use the glaze). Here is the after:

This is the before (I just attached one before bath photo since both bathrooms had the same counter and cabinetry):



And, last but not least, my gorgeous kitchen. I used Rustoleum Cabinet Transformations in black (no glaze) on the perimeter cabinets and Quilter's White with glaze on the island. More pics of my gorgeous kitchen can be found here: http://lipstickandabradnailer.blogspot.com/2012/07/finished-kitchen.html. Here is the after of my kitchen:

Here is the before:

Say Goodbye to Blobby Nothingness

I hated the blobby nothingness of our island before. Now it makes me smile every time I look at it. It has oomph and dimension, like a nice piece of furniture. Here is the after:

I put the polyurethane on the island today (just on the trim we added). I used Minwax Polycrylic that is water-based, but there is a polyurethane that is included in the Rustoleum Cabinet Transformations kit as well. It probably would work the same, but the Minwax is just what I grabbed. I did one coat on the trim (this is what Rustoleum recommends, just one topcoat). However, others would suggest more than one coat. I just used one since I feel one works fine. I used two foam brushes, one thin one to get in the inner part of the trim which is narrow and one thick one (trimmed to fit perfectly in the Minwax can). Here's a photo of the polyurethane and brushes I used:

We also trimmed out the rest of the bottom end panels in our kitchen. The oak-looking moulding is the same 3 1/2" one as the island, but Lowe's had run out of the white, which is why we bought the oak. I am painting over it, anyway, so the color doesn't matter. We framed this the same way we framed the island. I feel better already.

I also taped up two different kinds of trim I bought. That will be decided on soon so we can frame the upper end panels on the cabinets. The top one is a casing trim, the bottom is a chair rail, both from Lowe's and both the foam material.