A very slight change of plans

All I can say is that I'm glad that we are painting our cabinets, instead of just ordering more to fill in a few blanks. Here is the reason. Even though the cabinets are just 7 years old, their color has changed dramatically compared to the new cabinets with the same exact finish color. Ours currently are orangish-yellowish, and the new ones have a pinkish brown tone. They really do not work together, and the new cabinets really clash with the existing wood floor. Plus, we picked the paint color with the oak tone in mind- colors really play off of each other in tricky ways.

So, we felt it was most important to match the stain color to what we have now rather than match it to the new color. Remember, we are staining some portions of the new items to help blend the oak and the painted cabinets together. There was one unit going in as a half-wall/wine rack area between the kitchen and living room and it was to stay oak. Now it will be painted (more work for me!). It should still be nice.

The reason that area was pre-stained was that the line of cabinets that match our existing doors exactly only comes pre-stained (Merillat Classic line) whereas the higher end Masterpiece line (some of the new units are from this line) can be sent unfinished.

In the end it might be even nicer to have that unit painted, I guess we will never know though for sure. No biggie- if that is the biggest glitch we run into we are pretty darn lucky!