Since there are already 3 different cabinet door styles in this kitchen, I wasn’t too worried about matching the drawer fronts to the existing.

I wanted drawers and for it to be as large of a cabinet as possible to span the 21″ between the stove and the door trim. Then I went on the hunt for the perfect cabinet to land on the other side of the stove. I didn’t miter the corner since it will be hidden underneath the concrete.Īgain, I used the nail gun to secure the edge profile to the top of the plywood. Then I cut 1×2″ boards to build up a chunkier edge profile around the counter. But I was able to use my battery powered circular saw (another tool I use all the time) to cut a piece that fit perfectly. I had to cut a piece to fill the gap between the width of my plywood and the edge of my stove. I just wish I’d bought it before I did all that wainscotting! I got mine on sale, for about $150 with the battery and I’m never going back to the air compressor version! It’s electric, battery powered, and so much easier to use than the air compressor one I borrowed from my neighbor to do all the wood trim in this kitchen and this bathroom.

I cut a slightly larger and deeper piece of plywood, set it on top of the dishwasher surround, and nailed it into the top with my new nail gun. I hooked up the dishwasher and then I used the remainder of my plywood sheet to build a countertop. It was very, very dusty, but luckily it went really quickly! Sanding can be so tedious at times, but this was pretty gratifying.īefore I could begin the skimcoating process, however, I had to build some counters to skim by the stove! First I built a super simple frame for my dishwasher with 1″ plywood, butted it up to the existing hot water hook up, and screwed the frame into the wall. Shockingly it held up pretty well! But I had something better planned, so I took out my palm sander and got to taking off the paint and roughing up the laminate below. Over a year ago, unable to stand the yellow counters for another minute and right before I had a party, I painted the counters of the counter by the sink with the same light warm grey paint ( Benjamin Moore’s Brushed Aluminum) as the walls. The other side of the kitchen was luckily much nicer and the counter was a wood veneer in a pretty walnut tone. That yellow wasn’t doing anyone any favors. I knew I wanted to skim coat my kitchen counters with concrete since I first toured the house and saw this hot mess. And today’s post is all about how I made some simple forms to skimcoat and create a more uniformed counter surface in my kitchen! Oh boy, want to know what’s so much better looking than 45 year old yellow patterned laminate counters? Pretty much anything.

Concrete skim coat countertop