1.) Once you get over yourself and let the grandkids "help" things go faster and with a whole lot less anxiety. Making memories is a whole lot more important than a perfect paint job and besides, then if somebody inspects things closely, you can blame it on the kids.
2.) Prep is everything. It is a good thing to number the cabinet doors, making a map of the kitchen to show where you started in your numbering so that they can be re-attached easily. Then when you paint over the numbers, you can use the map to wipe paint off your fingers.
3.) If you have to stop in the middle of your job, wrap your brushes in plastic and put them in the freezer. This keeps you from having to clean the brushes every time. It also gives you about an hour to rest and relax while you wait for the brushes to thaw when you get back and are hurrying to do one more coat of paint before you have to stop and drive somebody somewhere. Or start dinner. Or clean the bathroom before the company arrives. Or scream out loud.
4,) Open shelving is very modern and hip. Everything is right in front of you and accessible, including the stuff you shoved in there trying to hide it from yourself and other for years.
5.) A little paint on your dishes, which you so efficiently left on the shelves because there is no sense moving them twice while the doors are being painted in the garage and who would be sloppy enough to get the brush way up there anyway, just gives them more character.
6.) People who already have white hair and choose white paint for their projects will be ahead of the game. It is called frosting, if anybody asks.
7.) When the dog comes through with an interesting white pattern on her side it is good to search the just painted walls for the corresponding pattern.
8.) People pay enormous amounts to have designs painted on their toenails at a nail salon. You should look into copyrighting White Rorschach Patterns on Red Toenails. It may bring big bucks.
9.) If it is raining and the garage door is up, the door does not keep the rain from blowing in and onto anything that has been freshly painted and is sitting around waiting to dry.
10.) Dried paint sticks to newspapers and attaches itself forever to the underside of whatever you have been trying to paint. Years from now archaeologists will drive themselves crazy trying to read the bits and pieces of the news that have been preserved on the backs of your cabinets doors.
11.) Yes, you can park a car in the seven feet of space between the garage fridge and the tables holding wet-painted cabinet doors when the forecast calls for hail, but you will not be able to get out the car door no matter how much weight you have lost during the stress of the project.
12.) Somebody, somewhere is waiting to earn some money rescuing do-it-yourselfers from the messes they have made. It will cost roughly twice what you would have paid them if they had done the project themselves from start to finish.
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