Cabinets

This past weekend I decided to try and refinish the bathroom cabinets in the guest bathroom. I saw a kit at Lowe's that looked very promising.  It had 4 steps to it and although there was a lot of waiting time in between, the steps themselves were fairly simple.  My house had the builder's grade natural oak cabinets installed with gold accents knobs. I forgot to snap a before picture of them, but here's one of my master bathroom cabinets that look just the same.

The first step was to clean the surface, then the second step was to apply a base coat.  This is where the color doesn't exactly match with what's on the box. Next time I will go much darker.  I wanted closer to a dark cherry color, but this is kind of a medium brown color.

 The third step was applying the glaze to give it the grainy wood look and to darken it up some.  It looked good, but not as dark as I was hoping.

And the result is not too bad.  I added new hardware to give them an updated look. 

I'm not sure I would do this to all my kitchen cabinets, but I may get the base color tinted darker and try it out on my master bathroom cabinets.