Before Together With Subsequently | Vintage Cabinet From Shabby To Chic
Tuesday, 22 July 2014
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One matter that genuinely bothers me is when individual takes a Mid Century trend slice of article of furniture in addition to applies a shabby chic pigment complete to it. Modern + shabby exercise non mix! This vintage cabinet was 1 of those disasters, lightly brushed amongst a weird green, the door had been removed on the correct side in addition to the notches for the hinges were left behind. Ugly white hooks were added to the side for functionality in addition to that dark-green pigment had dripped downwards onto the legs ruining the brass finish. The entirely cool matter this cabinet had going for it was the drawer, the within was crafted genuinely good amongst an surface area to agree pens or utensils.
I started yesteryear removing the hooks on the side in addition to patching all the holes. I lightly sanded the entire cabinet in addition to Andrew aggressively sanded the seem upward of the drawer correct downwards to raw wood. We had to travel careful because it was a genuinely brittle woods veneer on exceed of plywood. The legs were every bit good sanded downwards to raw woods in addition to a danish crude was applied to both the legs in addition to drawer forepart inward several sparse coats.
Since this cabinet was then tall it was calling out to conduct maintain or then shelves made to acquire inward to a greater extent than functional. So nosotros got or then MDF pieces cutting to jibe in addition to drilled or then holes to identify inward or then shelf clips at the desired height.
The cabinet was primed amongst several sparse coats to gear upward up a dainty base, this was a real dry out in addition to brittle cabinet, the primer merely soaked correct in. Once it was primed, the interior of the cabinet was painted amongst Benjamin Moore High Gloss Advance inward Mantis Green in addition to the exterior is Snowfall White.
I replaced the rustic trend knobs amongst something to a greater extent than gear upward clean in addition to modern, these tiny knobs are genuinely from an former Ikea Expedit unit, they’re the perfect size in addition to scale for the drawer. They no longer bear them, but they conduct maintain other options.
Check out the transformation from shabby to chic:
The shelves were purposely placed at the correct summit to exercise a bar cabinet or a tape cabinet:
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