Kitchen Cabinets

When Josh and I first bought our house one of the main things we wanted to do was paint the cabinets.  They were that hideous 1990s oak color. 

Exhibit A:

 Hi Howard :)

It was going to be too expensive {or more than we wanted to spend} to install all new cabinets, but with about $150 in supplies and some TIME {ended up taking about 3 weeks to complete the entire kitchen} we were able to get them looking so much better. 

That is until I decided they needed a shiny polyurethane coating on top to prevent them from getting scratched or nicked.  Of course I bought the oil based polyurethane instead of the water based and the cabinets turned YELLOW!

 I deleted all of the pictures of the yellow so I don't have any of those. But just a word of advice if you ever decide to cover anything that is painted white with polyurethane: Get the WATER BASED!