Well...you saw what the kitchen looked like before.

Here it is - now!

looks like a different room altogether doesn't it?

The doors and drawers were taken off, hardware put into a box, and doors carted downstairs to be spray painted, first grey, then white.

Then, the kitchen was masked off, and the cupboards themselves got their undercoat of grey, before the white topcoat. 
The blue tape and paper was in place to prevent everything that was not going to be painted, from being painted.
It was worth it - worth every bit of the fuss and mess, and many thanks to my son Scott, proprieter of Aethical Painters - for doing all the work. 
Once the painting was done, the doors and hardware re-installed and the new counter top put in, it was my turn to get out my tiling tools and put in the back splash with the wonderful clay tiles we got at "Restore". 
We are almost finished with the renovations on this house.  Just about time to call in the Realter.