Kitchen Paint and Stain

There's been a lot of work going on lately. Here's some pictures of progress in the kitchen.
The first step was picking a color for the walls, getting the unfinished trim stained, and attempting to do some refinishing on the cabinets.


That's as far as the cabinets got. It looks like they may just be painted after all.

The corner block rosettes in the dining room all need to be modified to match the thicker-than-usual trim. These two on the kitchen doorway are all that are done so far.

After all the window and interior doorway trim was finished, it was time to start on the two exterior doors. This one is the "front" door that opens to the side deck. The transom has been removed and boarded in this photo.

Here's the transom after stripping. The flat surfaces were stripped with the heat gun, but for the routing I used a chemical stripper, followed by lots of hand-sanding.

And here it is after staining (sideways photo, I forgot to flip it)

For the doors and transoms we found reproduction antique cast-iron church-steeple hinges. There are a few doors and transoms in the house that still have these original hinges, but most of them are covered in paint, or in bad shape. We got enough to start with the two doors and transoms in the kitchen.
And here it is working again. The brass latch is still on it's way here. The door is still waiting to be stripped.
Across from that is the back door. Here is preparation for staining.

Here is the completed trim and the sanded and filled door, ready to be stained and finished.
And finally, the upper-half of the walls were painted.

Remaining still is to strip the front door and rear transom, and to put the new hinges on those pieces. Plus we have to decide exactly what to do with the cabinets.
As a garden report, we got a decent haul of potatoes with quite a variety of shapes and sizes. Here's a sampling from one plant immediately prior to being made into dinner.