 Hi you guys and welcome back to my channel. So today I have a little bit of a different video but before we get into that I just wanted to kind of do a little explanation. First of all I haven't posted a video in a few days. It's been a crazy last couple days between this project and if you're new to my channel I'm a mom of three little girls that are the under the age of two so I'm potty training my two-year-old my one-year-old is still cutting teeth and then my five-month-old is starting to cut teeth so it's been a little crazy needless to say but I'm back in the swing of doing things and I get just the craziest ideas at the worst times to do projects I'll be honest with you guys but it's like therapy for me I love to paint I love to redo things and I'm constantly changing things and just making things the way that I like them I have a certain look I like to go for and so it's just fun for me to do that but I wanted to tell you all that we actually rent this home so I can only go so far with some of the things I do like paint is my best friend paint makes things look a lot different and so I did a law with paint on this project and I will be linking everything below that I possibly can of the different things that I used in case you guys want to try doing this I know that Amazon probably will carry some of the things I use to do this project and over here rumbling sound it's my husband leaving anyways I'm really really thrilled with how this whole thing turned out I still have a couple little knickknacks to do but I wanted to show you guys and also I do a lot of vlogging and cleaning videos and things like that on my channel so obviously you guys would see that the kitchen looks a lot different and would be like what did you do and all that so I just wanted to get this video out there and I hope that it inspires you to work on projects if you have been kind of thinking about doing some things and the first clip that you're going to see right after this is an evening clip I usually get my ideas of what I'm going to do if I have the stuff to do it at night it's just I don't know what it is my mom is the same way we're just project people and usually we get the most inspired in the evening or at night and we start projects and then it goes on for a couple days and whatever and with my kids going to bed of course that also probably brings inspiration on but anyways without further ado I'm going to show you guys what I did the process that I did and I hope that you all enjoy it if you're new to my channel don't forget to hit the subscribe button for a lot more videos like this and just inspiration in general like if you need cleaning motivation and those sorts of things and I'm just gonna stop talking now and you guys can see how I did everything all right so this is obviously the before and I started off by just taking all of the knobs off of the cabinet and the screwdriver didn't cut it so I got my husband's drill also completely ignore the horrible painting clothes and the nasty looking hair this paint is just from walmart and it's their white grab and go paint and I just always use this so that I know that anything I paint white is that white because there's a lot of whites out there all right so it's the next morning and this is what one coat of white looks like oh sorry about that um you can see kind of it's a little bit streaky and then um here you can see like what the other color looked like so I'm really liking it I can definitely tell like that the lighting in here is a lot different just from it being white and that's what the open shelving is looking like I'm going to eventually get um some probably from my dad this weekend get some nail filler and fill this and just sand over it and then just paint this side so that you don't see the nail holes and whenever I paint on the subway tiles I'm actually going to paint them in here too so it's going to look like it goes all the way up and you'll be able to see it behind like all of the glasses and stuff and I drip some paint on here and just so you guys know if you ever get paint on anything glass um just use a razor blade and it will scrape it right off and also I wanted to say that like if I get it onto the hinges um the way you can get it off is just some nail polish remover and a q-tip so I'm not too worried about the hinges although I did go around them with that little paint brush um just to make sure I don't get too much on them and make it a little easier to clean up so I will check back in with you guys once I get the second coat on I really really scrubbed the backsplash very well with the Mrs. Meyers soap because I needed something to make sure that it got all of the grease off of the backsplash and any other grime that would prevent the paint from sticking to it then I just got this clean release tape from duct tape brand and it's at walmart and that's what I taped off all of the edges with then I just borrowed a sander from my dad and I sanded over the walls um I didn't like go into real depths with this I just kind of went over it and more or less it probably just got rid of debris extra debris than really making it scuffed up then this little roller is also from walmart and it's the one that is for smooth surfaces all right so I have this part all painted with one coat and you can see there you can definitely see the difference in it and I think it's going to take at least two coats if not three coats to get a really like solid white going on and I am doing it with this roller brush because I feel like it's going to give it a more smooth looking texture like tiles versus doing a paintbrush so because that would make it have like brush stroke streaks a lot like the cabinets do like you can see there in the light that it has brush stroke marks and I didn't want that for the backsplash so now I just have to do this side since the backsplash was like an off white so were the switch covers and outlet covers so I am just going to take this um white spray paint and just spray paint paint them white and save a little bit of money on not buying white covers I'm working on the second coat now of paint on the backsplash the white paint and if you can kind of see there I think you can see the line by the light switch this is what I've been using for the edges because again I don't want the brush strokes so I've just been using this and dabbing it along the edges and looked up how big most subway tiles are and I found a couple different sizes but I'm going to go with a three by six so I have a yard stick here and I actually just marked where I'm going to be measuring since I'll be looking at it a lot and it'll just make it faster I'm going to draw it all on with pencil first before I actually do the taping and the painting all right I don't know if you'll be able to see them but there's really small marks I made every three inches all the way up and now I'm going to do it in here I'm actually going to fill this whole thing in first just for some practice and I think I'm actually going to do a third coat of paint on the the actual backsplash so I'm going to practice doing the tiles up in here anything that I'm messing up with the pencil I'm just using a mr clean eraser just because it cleans things up a lot better than a regular pencil eraser I made myself this little tool to be able to know how far apart I put my tape for the grout and I used a quarter inch this is a quarter inch I have the first few done and you can see the skinnier lines is where I'm going to do the grout I just wanted to explain to you guys a little bit why I'm using this method um if I was wanting to make it and look like brick I would actually freehand it so that it was like a little bit more imperfect but subway tiles are like perfect like they're very pointy they're very like square corners so that's what I'm going for so that's why I'm using the tape instead of just freehanding it over top of the pencil lines all right so the whole thing is taped up and my camera is having major problems focusing to me but I think you can see there you go now you can see it I had actually ended up getting two different colors because if I was going to do the countertop gray I would have used like a gray or tint but since I'm not going to do the countertops now because my dad kind of gave me a little bit of constructive criticism this corner of our countertop lifts up and he said whatever I put on here will probably crack because this is loose so I'm just going to leave the countertops the way they are which I think will work out if I use the right color grout and eventually our landlords will probably replace this anyways so I'm not worried about it this will be painted and so I can paint over it again if they replace it a different color it's kind of flexible so just so you guys know I got this at Walmart in the craft's aisle and it is in the color beachcomber beige is the color so this is what I'm going to be sticking on up there and I'm probably going to have to do more than one coat I'm assuming and we're back so now I put on all of that color on the grout lines and I used another one of these thingies just dabbing along so that I wouldn't have brush strokes and it would look a little bit more gritty looking so I'm going to let this dry and while this dries I think I'm going to put the last coat on the backsplash area I'm just afraid in daylight that you're going to be able to see the print through it so I want to do one more coat just to be safe all right so I put the last coat on the backsplash so that is completely done and then I had enough paint left to put one coat underneath of the cabinets and you guys might be wondering why I did that well for two reasons um one reason is because I'm ocd about stuff like that and wouldn't leave it go just like I'm going to be painting the inside of all of the cabinets kind of taking my time over the next couple of weeks like each cabinet so I don't have to empty the whole kitchen at once then the second reason is because of the color it would actually reflect on to the backsplash so if I want the backsplash to look really white I have to have this white too otherwise it's gonna like reflect that yellowy looking tint um onto the backsplash if the underneath part is not painted white too the other thing I wanted to mention super quick is I have done all of the stuff you guys have seen with half a gallon of paint I had this sitting in our basement and that's what I've been using um and I don't think I'll need to buy any more for the stuff I've done now to paint the inside of all of the cabinets I'll probably need to get like another half a gallon but um and I also use the same color on the cabinets as I did on the backsplash just so you guys know um it's the same stuff from Walmart I put the second coat of the grout color on this and I also got the second coat of white on the bottom of the cabinets so I think tonight yet I'm going to peel those off and then um get it going get the grout lines going the other way and then I think I'm going to do the pencil work on the backsplash but I really would like to let that paint sit overnight before I put tape on top of it I have the tape going the other way and it's almost dry enough to peel off up there um for the grout going the other way and then I am starting to draw in all of the tiles on the backsplash at this point I'm definitely starting to question my sanity and what in the world I was thinking of doing but at least this part's all done so now I just have to put in the paint and so this is the grout going one way and then I will be doing it going the other way and then I am doing the herringbone pattern on the backsplash of the sink part here because when I went to measure it out for the tiles it actually is like one inch difference on either side so you would have been able to see that so um I had to do something that would kind of play with the eyes so that you wouldn't be able to see that it was different and it wouldn't make the window look crooked or something like that we are making some progress but we hit a hiccup so I got all of the tape taken off for the grout going this way this wall was pretty simple this happened right here and um I don't worry don't freak out I think I can fix it and because I figured out what's going on so this is the sink area and it's the window so I'm pretty sure that there was moisture on the wall whenever I painted it so I'm just going to start over I'm going to sand it again really good and then I'm going to um actually probably use a hair dryer on the wall um really make sure it's dry before I paint and like you can see there so like anywhere it was kind of funny at the closer I got to the window the more um it seemed to have issues although this area didn't really have any issues so I I don't really know other than it has to be linked linked to moisture so I'm just going to redo this part and more than likely this would be my last little clip that I'm going to record because I'm going to get the rest of it put together and then you guys will see the rest of it there is some other little spots that peeled up and I will be just touching them up I kind of figured that would happen and then I'll be sealing it all so once it's sealed it won't get moisture and stuff in it and the other thing is too is if you guys have a newer house that's not just drafty um you won't have to worry about this also if you're doing it directly on a wall like directly on the drywall you wouldn't have to worry about this either because it's a combination of the moisture and the texture of this back splash so I will see you guys when it's done here is the end result and I couldn't be more happy with it I do need to do a couple things yet just like fill those nail holes but I did go over all of it you can see the shine there with a polycrylic I did two coats of the polycrylic and let it harden and so it's cleanable and I can wipe it all up but I just really love the look of it and I just like that the cabinets are brighter and lighter and I don't know what more to say about it other than I'm just very very happy with it all thank you guys so much for watching today I hope that you enjoyed this and it inspired you if you're new to my channel don't forget to hit the subscribe button I will see you guys in my next video