Adventures in Kitchen Knobs

I am so pleased with our new kitchen knobs!  And one small thing crossed off the To Do List!!  Here’s what they look like now:

My cheap fix was to spray paint them turquoise.  I took them all off, nailed a bunch of nails in a piece of scrap wood and sprayed them down.  Disclaimer: I didn’t use primer.  After 3 years the knobs looked like crap.  Plus the screws weren’t holding any more.  So for my birthday this year I told my hubby what I wanted for a present was for him to take off all the gross knobs and thoroughly wash the fronts off all the cabinets.  He was happy to oblige.  But… it took me a while to find a suitable replacement.  This was my first attempt.  These blue knobs were a steal at $.98 from Lowe’s but I decided I did not like the shape or the color.  Bummer.

After 2 trips to Hobby Lobby (which is an hour away from me) I gave up on the finding cool and affordable knob replacements.  I never found anything that would work really well in a kitchen, plus it wasn’t worth it to convert dresser-type knobs to cabinet knobs.  I did pick up a bunch of great knobs on my two trips.  🙂  (Check out my post Knobs Make Furniture Happy.)  So back to the drawing board.  I search Home Depot and Lowe’s AGAIN.  I looked online.  Finally I settled on the medium sized wood knobs from Home Depot, which are also $.98 a piece.

Then hubby was all set to put them back on.  But oh no!!  For some reason I remembered that we needed 27 knobs total.  Well I must be losing my mind because we need 41!  Three trips to 2 different Home Depot’s later and we are still 12 knobs short.  See I am not meant to finish a project EVER!  🙁

…Finally I painted the last 14.  Yay!!  Here’s the final product!  Oh and hubby LOVES them too!