Well, it took a little longer than I expected....but it's done, for now. I was the grateful recipient of this cabinet on wheels a few years ago from my parent's neighbor, Ellen. It was used as a TV stand in our bedroom in our last house and since we've moved to Kansas it has been floating around the house without a true purpose. Our poor, drab guest bedroom is just crying for a mini makeover so the floating cabinet on wheels will now have a permanent home. It will now house our printer, modem & router in the guest bedroom...which reminds me, I didn't cut a hole in the back of it. Easy enough fix though, nothing the Dremel can't handle. At some point I want to add a shelf inside of it, that will happen when I have a bit of scrap wood laying around from some other project.
Here she is before her makeover. The ivy is just begging to be released into wild.
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Top View |
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Taken all apart and given a light sanding. |
Once I got the piece prepped, I primed with a spray primer(actually, two different types...I much prefer the Kilz Spray Primer) and then painted with one of the Valspar paint samples from Lowe's for $2.94. Once the paint was completely dry, I applied the vinyl that I cut with my Klic-N-Kut machine.
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Top View |
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Side Angle View
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At this point, I was ready to sing for joy at the top of my lungs! This is the first time I have attempted redoing furniture let alone applying vinyl to multiple pieces like a puzzle. I was stoked! After trolling a bunch of blogs, I came across the
All Things Thrifty blog and fell in love with glazing techniques. I found the Ralph Lauren Faux Technique glaze at the ma & pa paint store and had them tint it black. This was the most expensive thing I bought for this project at just under $10 but it is going to last me a looooooong time. I doesn't even look like I used any out of the can. After two coats of the glaze, I topped it off with Krylon Triple Thick Crystal Clear Glaze. I am very happy with the way this turned out, very happy!
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Front View, sorry it's a weird angle...the bed was in my way. |
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Side View Angle |
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The top is B.EAU.TI.FUL! |
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Closeup of the vinyl...I really like how the black tinted glaze makes the white vinyl pop! |
So, there's my new favorite piece of furniture in the house and I don't think these pictures truly show her beauty....time to go shopping for fabric to recover the lamp and for glass etching cream.....