Do your kitchen cabinets look old and dingy? Mine do! You may already know this, but in this old house of ours, it has some old features that need some care. Our kitchen cabinets are one of those things. They have at least two decades of cooking grease, dirt and grime covering them. They are natural maple cabinets and therefore show lots of the dirt that collects. I am not sure they were ever wiped off before we purchased the house. They need to be cleaned and degreased!
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In one of my other posts, I used this great cleaner and degreaser to clean linoleum flooring before I painted it to 
look like cement tile. I am so impressed with this Mean Green Super Strength Cleaner . One day, when I was cleaning up after my big floor painting project, I was going to put away the cleaner I used on the floor and noticed that my white kitchen sink needed some cleaning. I used the cleaner to make it sparkle and shine! Then, in a fury of cleaning, thought of how terrible the kitchen cabinets look.
It worked so well that I have to share it. I cannot tell you how many times I have tried to get old cooking grease off of cabinets and vent hoods and struggled with getting it clean, and then keeping it clean. You know that horrible feeling when you run your hand along a cabinet and it is sticky? YUCK. I hate that. Maybe I have a little OCD. Probably. But, I still want clean cabinets.
Before & After
If you can look past my beautiful 1980’s cabinet hardware, the before and after pictures speak for themselves!! WOW! I spent an afternoon cleaning all the cabinets in my kitchen and I feel like I have a new kitchen!! It is brighter, cleaner and just makes me happier!
BEFORE |
SPRAYED WITH DEGREASER |
AFTER |
Here is how I did it:
Steps
Step 1: Spray the cabinets with the Mean Green cleaner and degreaser until throughly wet
Step 2: Let sit for one to two minutes
Step 3: Use a Norwex Enviro cloth to scrub the grease and dirt off
Step 4: Rinse cloth and wipe cabinet down
THAT IS ALL! I didn’t do anything else, unless I sprayed a second layer of cleaner and degreaser and scrubbed again. I only needed to do that on two doors – both by the trash can. Now, I don’t have a huge kitchen, so it didn’t take me all day, but in my small kitchen there is a lot of cooking happening. And I assume a lot before we bought the house too, judging by the amount of crud already on the cabinets when we moved in!
