THE NEWPORT REVIVAL

The second floor apartment is now the main living area. The house is no longer used as a duplex. Upstairs there is a large living room with music room bay to the side, a sun room, formal dining room, butlers pantry/morning room, kitchen, three bedrooms, large passage hall and a large bathroom. Lots of closets which I love.
The kitchen dated to the 1950's and had to go. Total gut job. Tried to restore the cabinets and that flopped.
Decided to start from scratch. Glad now we did.

The cabinets there were maple plywood. Two walls in the kitchen were blank so I tried my hand at making some to match in.
These pictures show me in the process of grain painting the cabinets we built on site. I wanted to match in with the original cabinets. This took me some time to do.
I did not like how they were turning out and I scrapped that idea. I did repurpose the wood used for building them in other projects around the house though.