I have been on the look out for a corner cabinet for some time now. I found one for $40.00 at an antique shop in Centralia, WA. Turns out Centralia is an antique mecca. I had also seen a fun scrap wood wall paper featured on a number of websites. I purchased the wallpaper from the retailer's online site on a Monday. It was shipped from the Netherlands on Wednesday. I had it in my hand on Friday. UPS you are amazing. Granted there is a significant time difference, because really my Monday order actually got shipped on my Tuesday and got to me by the retailers Saturday. You really can go back in time!
Whatever laws of time and space were bent to get my package to me, I am grateful. It meant that I had a project this weekend!
The cabinet before the magic began.
Cabinet hosed down with Citristrip paint remover. Great product I found at Home Depot.
Cabinet door that got the "orange" treatment. In hindsight I think I could have skipped this step and gone straight to sanding the surfacing with my orbital sander. However, I am nothing if not thorough. And/or prone to overkill when tackling projects I have not attempted before.
I stripped the paint, sanded the surface and then used mod-podge to attach the wallpaper. I really was working hard to try and get the vertical planks to at least kind of line up with each other.
One of the cabinet doors. Can you see the toothpicks I used to try and make sure I knew where the hardware screws needed to go?
After attaching the wall paper, I used a clear matte spray polyurethane to seal the edges. (well, that's what I hope I did anyway) Reattached the hardware and BAM. This cabinet officially got kicked up a notch.
While nobody is supposed to put baby in a corner, the corner cabinet looks right at home! Ignore the strange light reflecting off the tv screen. It is not the flash from my camera, but the cabinet basking in its moment in the sun!
Whatever laws of time and space were bent to get my package to me, I am grateful. It meant that I had a project this weekend!
The cabinet before the magic began.
Cabinet hosed down with Citristrip paint remover. Great product I found at Home Depot.
Cabinet door that got the "orange" treatment. In hindsight I think I could have skipped this step and gone straight to sanding the surfacing with my orbital sander. However, I am nothing if not thorough. And/or prone to overkill when tackling projects I have not attempted before.
I stripped the paint, sanded the surface and then used mod-podge to attach the wallpaper. I really was working hard to try and get the vertical planks to at least kind of line up with each other.
One of the cabinet doors. Can you see the toothpicks I used to try and make sure I knew where the hardware screws needed to go?
After attaching the wall paper, I used a clear matte spray polyurethane to seal the edges. (well, that's what I hope I did anyway) Reattached the hardware and BAM. This cabinet officially got kicked up a notch.
While nobody is supposed to put baby in a corner, the corner cabinet looks right at home! Ignore the strange light reflecting off the tv screen. It is not the flash from my camera, but the cabinet basking in its moment in the sun!
Holy moly - the turnaround on that project was crazy fast. And it turned out fantastic! Are you planning on putting that xbox in the cabinet?
ReplyDeleteI'd like the xbox in the cabinet - but that means I need that coring bit so that the cords attached to the xbox get to an outlet.
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