My 'friend' and I had been out at her grandmother’s place one day, and ended up with a whole bunch of wonderful junk to play with. Now, to many people, the stuff we brought out of those sheds would be just considered trash…but to us…they were pure gold…just a little rough around the edges!
This is the base of an old set of kitchen cupboards…It is absolutely adorable. We have all the missing parts, it just needs to be repaired and brought up to a better standard of stability. Right now it is in very rough shape.
I love that it is on castors!!! Can you imagine being able to re-arrange your kitchen????
This is the top of that cupboard! How cute is this??? Can you imagine how much character they have when they are put together???? I love it!
There is even a little spice rack inside the cupboard! Ya-ya…there’s also well …er… some filth and a little mouse poop…ha ha!
My friend doesn’t really like the idea of putting the top on the original base, so we also pulled another piece out of that shed.
Check this baby out!
It is big and beautiful…and yes….a little dirty, but there are lots of details built right in! I can’t wait to get the drawers open ( they are stuck in position) and get to work!
It does not have cabinet piece for the top anymore…but it does have great bones. This is going to become the base for the little cupboard top I showed above.
I had fun and a few surprises while making this project take life…
We got busy cleaning up the pieces we wanted to use…my friend was working on cleaning up the top part, and I took the base. Somehow I always end up taking the piece with the most surprises in store for me.
The first order of business was to get the doors and drawers to open. It took a little muscle, but I eventually got those drawers to open…now…I have seen a lot of things in my junkin’ adventures…but these drawers...well…they were unique…to say the very least.
I pulled the drawers right out of the cabinet to clean them….and got myself a little bit of a surprise in one of them! Do you see it??? I was startled…and grossed out enough that I was actually gagging!!!
I could handle the mouse mess that was left in the drawers….
I could handle the dead bugs, cob webs and the broken glasses….but I could not handle…
The filthy set of upper dentures!!! I should have kept them and scared Grammie with them…set them inside her desk drawer…hahaha!
Good Greif! I am gagging right now! How disgusting is this??? My kids were laughing so hard at my reaction. I opened that drawer and let out a little scream…and then started to gag. They thought it was hilarious!
The other drawer wasn’t nearly as disgusting…but it was a little disturbing…
There was several bottles of this in that other drawer. Two of them were still full!!! just a little disturbing…ha-ha
I wonder what the other “valuable ingredients” are…or maybe I don’t….hahahaha!
After we had a good giggle over the contents of our junk, I got to work…
...cleaning and disinfecting everything...
...sanding and scraping a little here and there…
…and taking a million before photos!
Bring on the paint!
This piece was given two coats of semi-gloss black oil based paint.
It sure does look better than it did…
…but it still feels like it’s not finished yet… I need to give it some depth.
First we needed to finish the top.
Inside …outside and all over this piece I cleaned and scraped and disinfected….then I painted.
EVERY little spot on this piece was also painted with two coats of black semi gloss paint.
When both pieces were dry….and ready to be moved, I grabbed a rag and a can of cabernet colored gel stain and rubbed all over the black.
…the red stain gave the black a little dimension…and the pieces were left to dry.
While the outside of the base dried, we added some spray glue and some pages from an old book as shelf liners on the inside of the cupboards. My "friend" loves that look…and this was a great idea for covering the inside shelves.
Once the whole thing was dry and ready to move, there were castors added to the base piece…so that it would be easy to move if the need should arise, and the whole project was taken into the house, and set into position!
I added little wooden knobs to the drawers, that were painted and stained to match the finish…my 'friend' did not want to add backing to the top…she wanted to see her wall color through it.
and that is all that needed to be done to finish the project!
I adore the original hardware on the top cabinet piece. All we did to them is add a tiny bit of copper color paint to them…they didn’t need much more!
I can’t wait to share this cabinet all decked out with dishes and pretty things!
The BEST part of this project is that these pieces once belonged to a family member of my "friend". They were her great great great grandmothers! How wonderful is that for her to have????
Not only did she get a china cabinet that is a one of a kind…but she created a family heirloom at the same time!
So…what do you think? I like the result…and still want to try to fix the original base. I have more junkin’ projects to share…so stay tuned!
~~~Update~~~
Sadly, after my "friend" got the pieces that she wanted me to fix, all finished...she sort of disappeared from our lives. Funny how that works hey?
Until Next Time…Happy Junkin’!
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