Where oh where do I begin with this cabinet?!
I guess I can start by saying I picked up this one of a kind piece from someone who just didn't want it anymore. They were getting rid of it and I saw the potential and said I would take it with the intention of fixing it up real nice. Well, long story short, it got moved from room to room for years until finally I couldn't stand it anymore!
Here are the before pictures.
So, what I did, was paint this cabinet blue. I was planning on sanding it a bit to get a little bit of a distressed look. Then I was going to put white lace on the back of each shelf to give it a country look.
Buuuuuut...needless to say, it didn't work out that way AT ALL. I was so frustrated with this cabinet because everything I seemed to do just wasn't working for me. First of all, I put waaaaaay to many coats of blue paint on it so trying to sand it was a miserable task. Then, to top that off, the places that I did sand it down to show the wood, you couldn't even see it! The wood was so light that it just blended with the wood and when I tried to put a glaze on it, the blue just looked muddied.
So it sat in my garage for about 6 months, half done, and me having some very awful feelings towards it.
Then, I decided one day that I just had to do something with this thing and get it out of my life!
So, I painted white on the outside (just one coat this time, boy did I learn my lesson with that blue paint!) and lightly distressed it to see the blue coming through the white and then called it a day.
After all that trouble that I put myself through, I think it didn't turn out so bad after all! It has such a beachy feel to it and I wish I would have gotten some better pictures before it sold!!!
Hope you enjoy it more that I did ;-)
Cheers,
Shannon
