The name of this post has two meanings: the submit itself is simplest a quick update, and its purpose is to tell you approximately a short replace in our kitchen. Specifically, to our kitchen cabinets.
As I mentioned remaining week, our try to enhance our dingy kitchen cabinet handles with oil-rubbed bronze (ORB) spray paint wasn't very a achievement. So I took the plunge and ordered a few new ones, which arrived last weekend. And as I hoped, putting in them have become a quite easy process; more than one the screws on the present hardware required a few coaxing to return free, however for the most element, it changed into simply screws out, screws in, growth. The complete approach took maybe an hour. As a cease result, our kitchen cabinets have gone from looking like this...
...To searching like this.
Now, that might not appear to be a very dramatic transformation, so allow's pull in for an excessive near-up of simply what the antique handles used to look like. Pretty grungy, proper? You can honestly see the bottom metallic underneath the copper plating, or even the copper parts do now not make a amazing assessment with the dark wooden of the cupboard doorways.
The new handles, through assessment, aren't only in higher form, similarly they have got a miles darker end that stands out higher closer to the wood. And the nifty basket-weave layout inside the metallic through hook or with the aid of crook appears to tie in with an entire lot of different portions in our house that I'd in no way notion to attach before, from the ornamental metalwork in those lamp bases...
To the Celtic knotwork in this tapestry...
...And even a few other paintings quantities that are not visually similar, however simply have a Renaissance issue.
So, with an funding of $45 (which we did now not even pay out of pocket, way to survey praise points) and an hour of labor, no longer only does our kitchen look an awful lot more fashionable, however the entire residence feels just a little greater pulled-together. And we however have two more handles left from the bundle deal of 25, in case we harm one or take a belief to install one on a few component else.
Now, I wager, all that remains is to put off the vintage ones. They're in such cruddy shape that I'm not confident absolutely everyone on Freecycle will need them...But I wager it can't harm to try.
