She's got legs...

During my kitchen cabinet escapades, I came across islands that had furniture legs on each corner and knew I wanted them.  Here an actual picture from the cabinet company. 

The problem was...the kitchen cabinet guy wanted to charge me $100 per leg. Riiiiiiiiiight. Seeing how I wanted 4 legs for the island and 2 separate legs for the sink bump out...that certainly wasn't going to happen.  I happen to come across these little beauties at Home Depot and think they'll be perfect.  Even better looking than the $100/leg ones above.

To make them even more perfect, I actually got a quart of the exact stain of the cabinets.  How genius was I?  But...what I didn't realize was that the cabinets are actually sprayed with stain and the quart I bought was meant to be sprayed as well.  Who the heck knows what that means and what the difference even is?  So I went ahead and brushed on the stain like normal.  Yeah...not good.  Here is a picture of how different the color is because sprayed stain comes out super fine. 

Not to be deterred and furniture legless in my kitchen...I picked up another leg at Home Depot and a can of wood stain.  The labeling had me at hello.  Dries in one hour, achieves color in one coat and enhances wood grain.  Yes please.

Here are the kitchen island legs after one coat (true to it's label!).  I had also picked up a can of spray poly and these will get a few coats of that to protect them from normal wear and tear.  They are really close to the actual cabinet color now.  Not 100% but good enough.

For the sink bump out, I just color matched the cabinets with a small sample paint jar since those cabinets will be white.  Since the cabinets will have a glaze as well...these legs aren't finished yet.  I didn't want to try glazing for the first time without actually seeing my cabinets so I'll wait to finish these once the cabinets are in.  But I already have the glaze on hand...I just hope it survives the move and I know where it is when I need it.

As for the installation on these things...I think the cabinet installers will probably hate me.  The legs will most likely stick out further than I want since the largest ring is pretty big.  So the lucky installers will have to figure out a way to shave off some of the back to make them sit further in.  No biggie...right?

The original legs would have cost $600.  My little project cost me less than $100...the stain from the cabinets that I didn't end up using was $40 alone...so much for that genius idea. 

So all of this...for furniture legs that no one will probably notice except for me:)