We decided to paint the dining set and start with the china cabinet!!!!! I'm SUPER excited but am slowly realizing that this is going to take forever. I'm the kind of person that likes things to happen instantaneously :)
So as I briefly explained in my last post, we received an entire dining room set (table, chairs, buffet, china cabinet) from a good friend's parents who were getting rid of it. So we gladly took it since it was FREE and we had nothing! NOT my style at all but I had high hopes that we could turn it into something great. Here is a picture of what it originally looked like......
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sideways but you get the idea.....an older style, not really what I was going for
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I decided to remove the doors and the wooden post in the center that allowed the doors to close and just have it be open shelving. I like this look and didn't like how the doors limited what I could put on the shelves. For instance I couldn't put any of my cake stands or larger dishes on the shelves because they stick out too far and the doors wouldn't close. So problem solved....no doors! Once its all painted I'll change the hardware to something more my taste and we will be all set.
In the mean time, we still have a lot of painting to do.
Where to start you may be thinking?? Well so were we, neither my husband nor I have ever re-purposed furniture (so that it looks professional) before. Besides painting smaller pieces like end tables and bookshelves, things like that. Oh he did paint a pretty large rocking chair for the baby's room which turned out awesome!! So maybe we aren't going in so blindly after all :) Anyway, friends of ours painted their kitchen cabinets and since I've been DREAMING of white cabinets in my kitchen for years now, I think we will probably do the same thing. But anyway, they used a rust-oleum paint kit for cabinets sold at Home Depot. It comes with everything you need included a deglosser which you do instead of sanding. it strips a layer off so that the paint will stick., and a decorative glaze (optional) that gives a more antique look if you choose. The glaze tints the paint color, the more you wipe off the lighter the effect will be, more dramatic/darker if you leave more on. All you need to purchase besides this kit is a paintbrush, so we thought we'd give it a try. The kit was I think around $70 and comes with 2 paint cans that you pick the color (options given on box) and the nice people at Home Depot will tint it for you. I chose pure white and then thought if it turned out too white (which I was afraid of) then we could just use the glaze and tint to my liking. The kit also comes with a handy DVD which gives a much better idea of what glazing will do to your project, they do a nifty little demonstration for you.
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front of box / name of kit
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Doors are GONE! Had to remove all hardware/screws/hinges, etc... and then fill the holes in with wood filler. Then sand to a smooth finish before starting to paint.
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VOILA!!! Hutch part finished and ready for the decorative glaze and final coat which is a protective coat and also adds some shine. I want to finish painting the bottom half and see the entire thing white before we proceed to glazing. I am going to test a small corner first to see if I even like it.
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some color options on the box, our friends did their cabinets black which isn't shown, you can see the difference between no glaze (on left) and glazed (on right) with each color.
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