My First Refinishing Project

This took me a couple months to do because I worked on it in my dad's huge heated workshop instead of my freezing cold garage. Therefore I only worked on it every so often when I had enough time when I was across the city at their house. This hutch was once in my grandparents house. When they passed away a few years ago, my mom kept it and wanted to strip it and refinish it. It was a lot of work to strip it (never finished it) and then they moved into her new house and she decided she didn't want it. Neither did anyone else. So I decided to take on the project. Here's the before with the hardware already taken off and the bottom portion has been stripped a little bit already.

When everyone saw that I was going to paint this oak cabinet instead of stripping it and staining it, they were mad at me for ruining that nice wood. Oh well...no one else wanted it! So here's the finished product. Nothing too fancy, but gives me a little extra cupboard space. Now I gotta find something nice to put on the shelves. It is supposed to have glass that slides to close up the shelves, but it broke. I'm not sure if I am going to replace the glass. I kinda like it open. Now I need to find something nice to put on the shelves!!!