Before As Well As Afterward | Vintage Cabinet From Shabby To Chic

One affair that genuinely bothers me is when individual takes a Mid Century vogue slice of slice of furniture in addition to applies a shabby chic pigment complete to it. Modern + shabby practise non mix! This vintage cabinet was i of those disasters, lightly brushed alongside 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 greenish pigment had dripped downwards onto the legs ruining the brass finish. The exclusively cool affair this cabinet had going for it was the drawer, the within was crafted genuinely good alongside an expanse to concur pens or utensils.

I started past times 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 confront of the drawer correct downwards to raw wood. We had to endure careful because it was a genuinely brittle forest veneer on locomote past times of plywood. The legs were likewise sanded downwards to raw forest in addition to a danish petroleum was applied to both the legs in addition to drawer forepart inwards several sparse coats.

Since this cabinet was then tall it was calling out to direct maintain only about shelves made to acquire inwards to a greater extent than functional. So nosotros got only about MDF pieces cutting to stand upward for in addition to drilled only about holes to identify inwards only about shelf clips at the desired height.

The cabinet was primed alongside several sparse coats to laid upward up a overnice base, this was a really dry out in addition to brittle cabinet, the primer only soaked correct in. Once it was primed, the interior of the cabinet was painted alongside Benjamin Moore High Gloss Advance inwards Mantis Green in addition to the exterior is Snowfall White.

I replaced the rustic vogue knobs alongside something to a greater extent than laid upward clean in addition to modern, these tiny knobs are genuinely from an quondam Ikea Expedit unit, they’re the perfect size in addition to scale for the drawer. They no longer behave them, but they direct maintain other options.

Check out the transformation from shabby to chic:

The shelves were purposely placed at the correct summit to practise a bar cabinet or a tape cabinet:

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