Recently we helped my good friend Leanne with a mini kitchen renovation.  I say mini, because we only replaced the sink, facet, countertops, backsplash and painted the cabinets.  This may sound like a lot, but it only took a weekend, and we worked within a relatively small budget. We have done a similar project at our lake house, where we poured concrete countertops, which was very cheap but labor intensive.  The pic below is the before shot.  There were Formica countertops on the counters and backsplash, as well as some odd faux granite particle board covering the back of the bottom counters.   I’m a fan of painting old cabinets like…