Mark and Jensen Daggett recently bought an older home and are now in the process of renovating it. The house is Moorish in style, but the kitchen has been modernized and does not fit in with the look of the rest of the house. Jensen wants to give her modern kitchen an antique look by distressing the cabinets and using paint techniques to make them look weathered and old. She hopes the project will take no more than four days but knows that if she runs into trouble, it may take much longer. Jensen has asked her friend William to assist her in the work on her kitchen cabinets. To give the kitchen an aged look, they start by removing the finish on the cabinets. They use paint and varnish remover to strip the cupboards down to bare wood. They sand the cabinets by hand, and soon it's on to the fun part: distressing the wood! They use a section of chain link, a screwdriver and a hammer to give the cabinets an old, weathered look. After staining the wood a mustard yellow color, William and Jensen decide to call it a day.
It has been a week since Jensen and William last worked on the cabinets. Returning to the project, William and Jensen get to work painting a pale yellow color on top of the mustard yellow to make the cupboards look faded and older. After lunch, they carefully paint a green frame around the detailing on the cabinet doors. One more color to go and soon Jensen's cabinet makeover will be complete!
The last step of the project is to wipe a water-based raw umber on the cabinets to accent the dings and dents created by the chains, hammer and screwdriver. It took Jensen six days instead of four to finish her work on the cabinets, but she loves the result. Her husband Mark enters the home for the first time since the renovation began and is very pleased with the way the cabinets turned out. Finally in Jensen Daggett's kitchen, everything new is old again!
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