Today’s project concerns a cupboard on the landing. Again you might have caught a brief glimpse of it previously.
If not, here is what it looked like.
It is original to the house and looking a bit battered and worn.
This cupboard was the subject of much thought and discussion between Mr. & Mrs. Remodel. What should we do? We considered pulling it out and putting an IKEA cabinet in there but it was too wide for their widest cabinet and too small for two small ones. We thought of pulling it out and putting a bookcase in there but Mrs. R liked the idea of some storage for things like toilet rolls for the upstairs bath, spare linen and other bits and pieces that could be put behind closed doors.
Finally we decided to keep it with some changes. One change was to remove the old shelves and the cleats in the upper cupboard.
We also sanded it down to get rid of the hard edges where some of the paint had been worn away or flaked off.
Then it was painted.
The doors were sanded and given a coat of paint.
While Mr. & Mrs. R were talking about ideas, Mrs. R wondered about making a beachy feature of the cupboard by putting some sort of sandy paint on the doors and the flat surface between the two cupboards.
We found a granite finish paint at Lowes (we didn’t need much but the granite finish only comes in a gallon pot and costs about $40). This green was the nearest colour for a beach look in the range and looks better in person as the texture tones down the green.
Nice new shelves.
The painted doors already to go up.
Shell handles from a special order range at Lowes completes the look.
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