More progress

This is for you Cyd. I took these with my cell phone so the pictures are not great. These are the drawers that were completed last night. You can sort of see the antiqued edge with the stain around them. They had just received their last coat of poly and were put back in their slot to dry so they are super shiny in these photos but will dry a little more matte.You can see Rachel doing the final coat of poly on the drawers here. We got the fridge back in place yesterday. Nat, Rosemarie and I managed it! You can also see more of the doors on the counter drying from a coat of poly. Everything is slow going right now because you have to wait about 4 hours between coats.
Grandma Pat and I are headed there after Caleb gets out of pre-school today to get another coat on the doors. I guess once that is done, we will start touch ups and also try to work on the hutch. Yes, now we are also refinishing furniture too. Nat put together the bench that goes with Mom's table too, so that will be a fun little suprise for her!

Mom's Kitchen, Before and During!

Sorry these photos on top are so small. I stole them from my mom's blog.

This is the kitchen before the makeover. You can see the vertical blinds, and in the following photos you can see the two kinds of ivy paper that covered the walls.

These are mom's new drawers. I hope she won't be too sad that we have painted them.
This is a couple years old, but you can see the wallpaper in the background and also the cabinets.
This is how it looked after we got started on the project.

This is the crew of us working. The paper plate people are Cydny and Ken, my sister and brother-in-law who live in Kansas and are helping vicariously as well as offering their opinions on what we should do.
The shirts that Rebecca had made for us.
We are so tired! This was about 1:00 am last night.

Rebecca documenting the stupid stuff that we have all said.
Cameron and Dave putting on a coat of the polyurathane.
The new finish on the cabinet doors. You can't see it very well, but the edges are sanded and stained as well.
Another shot of the newly finished doors.
The edges of the cabinets that have been sanded to be stained. All of the doors and drawers will also get this same treatment.Better go for now, lots to do if we will be done to suprise Mom and Dad on Monday morning!