Cabinet Upcycle with BURLAP! | TRASH TO TREASURE | Radio Weave Cane Alternative?

Hey guys, welcome or welcome back if this is your first time here. My name is Katie. I am the owner and the artist behind it, rescued by K Scott a few weeks ago. I picked up a two-piece china

cabinet

on the side of the road completely free of charge. and I've already converted the bottom half of that

cabinet

into a freestanding unit. It's now a bright, bright and airy media console. Now I'm going to transform the top. This makeover will have a completely different vibe than the bottom section. Come on. Look what we're working on. My plan for this new

upcycle

d piece of furniture is to cut it up, add some cool legs, give it a new coat of paint, and some really cool new door panels.

The first thing is to disassemble everything. I removed the cabinet doors and then removed the hinges and posts and also went in and removed all the little brackets holding the glass in place. I am going to have to cut the extra plinth on the bottom of this cabinet box to turn it into its own free standing piece of furniture I put it on its side and used a metal square and a marker to mark where I am going to make my cuts I decided to use the bottom of the edge on the front of the cabinet as a good natural breaking point for this, I took my middle square and decided to use it as a ruler so I could keep my saw in a straight line when it came time to make my cuts, the saw is unplugged, here I'm.

I just used this to gauge where the blade is actually going to hit once I had this all figured out. I clamped my metal ruler to the side of the cabinet and used it as a guide to run my saw in a nice straight line. I also need to mention here, you shouldn't wear shoelaces, you don't want to wear anything loose or hanging that can be dragged by power tools, it's very dangerous, please be smarter than me. Once I had everything measured and clamped, I plugged in my saw and made my first cut. Once this cut was made, I continued to flip the cabinet onto its back and then to the other side and just continued my straight line around the bottom and this is what the bottom of the cabinet looked like afterwards.

I had already finished making all my cuts. Now it's time to add the legs. I purchased this set of four solid wood furniture pieces from Amazon. I'll leave a link to those in the description box but to install them on the bottom of my cabinet I needed to build some wood blocks, the wood blocks will make sure the legs are at a proper height and I also need some material to be able to drill and install this metal threaded part. I found some leftover two-fours and also ended up cutting some squares of scrap OSB to go on top and the 2x4 with the half-inch OSB on top ended up being the perfect height to build these blocks.

I used some wood glue and a bunch of wood screws. It was necessary to very securely fasten these wooden blocks to the base of my cabinet, so unfortunately my battery died and my camera stopped recording and I didn't realize until it was too late, but I used a half inch drill bit to I drilled a hole in the corner of each of these blocks and that way I can screw the legs directly into the bottom. The glass inserts that once made up this shelf broke, so my husband cut me some quarter-inch pieces of MDF and we simply stapled them to where the glass was before I got it. lots of screw holes from my little leg installation adventure and filled them with some wood filler.

The last repair or modification I need to make is to this hole in the top of the cabinet. I assume this was wired for lights at One Point, so what I did was take a one inch hole saw and cut a two-by-four piece of wood from another piece. I don't know if this is technically the right way to solve this problem, but I'm just showing you guys. What i did to patch this hole: i put a piece of painter's tape at the bottom of the hole to hold everything together and then mixed in some of this minwax high performance two part wood putty, once this putty is dry, It will be Super hard, probably even harder than wood.

Once I got it nice and mixed, I put some wood putty in the bottom of the hole, put the plug in the center, and then packed the putty around it. I'm just using the plug here to take up some space so I don't have to use wood filler to fill all this void and since it's such a large area I let this cure nice and tight for a couple of days before coming back and I sanded everything lightly, once all my filled areas were nice and dry I went back with 120 grit sandpaper and sanded all those areas flush.

I also used 220 grit sandpaper on all the surfaces I was going to paint to scuff them up. I got them up and prepped them to really hold my paint. Once I had made all the repairs and everything was ready, I went over everything one more time with a clean, damp rag to remove any dust. I'm going to paint this piece. at home and canvas, chalk finish furniture paint in the color underground, it's an absolutely stunning earthy olive green and I'm going to apply my paint with my gravity fed hvlp pneumatic spray gun. I need to thin this paint with a little bit of water before I can spray it, so here you can see that I added about two ounces of water to about 14 ounces of paint.

That's how I do it, how I've always done it. Yes, technically you have to mix the paint in a separate container and then strain it. On your gun, that's not how I roll. I started painting with this piece upside down so I could move around all the legs very easily and then once it was dry I turned it over and applied two coats of paint for the entire piece inside and out, this paint only needs about an hour to dry between coats, as long as it is dry to the touch, you can continue with the next coat if you want to know more about my spray gun and how I spray my pieces.

I'll leave a card above a video I created about my spray setup. Hmm, I let my last coat of paint dry really well overnight and then brought the cabinet inside the house where it's a little warmer. Apply my Wax Top Coat, this Houston Canvas Protective Wax Top Coat is very easy to apply, simply brush it on in small circular motions, one section at a time, and then come back with a clean, lint-free rag and wipe off any excess that you have. Inspired by watching another DIY YouTuber a few months ago, Lily Ardor scratch built a really beautiful cabinet and she used

burlap

as a dupe for the Kane

radio

woven straps.

I thought Lily's cabinet was pure furniture genius. I'll be sure to leave a link. to watch the video of lily on

burlap

in the description box below so you can see for yourself. Luckily, I know I already have a couple of old burlap tablecloths in my basement. In fact, I already cut them for some other DIYs. and these are going to work perfectly for my new door panels. I definitely should have ironed my burlap before I started attaching it to the door frames, but I was hoping that pulling it nice and taut would even it out, I'll have to go.

I went back after the fact and ironed these door panels. I attached the burlap to the back of the door frames with some quarter-inch staples. I found that it worked best for me if I joined one edge completely and then worked on the opposite edge pulling very hard and working. Working my way from left to right with my staples, trying to keep an even tension on the burlap as I went, once I had the top and bottom secured I went ahead and worked side to side using the same method. I do it once I have the burlap all stapled.

Then I came back with some kitchen scissors and just trimmed off the excess. I really liked the way the tarnished brass hardware looked against the olive green color with the natural burlap, so I left everything as it was and reinstalled everything as it was my husband and I am currently renovating most of the main floor of our house, including the dining room and kitchen, so I think I'll stick with this cabinet. I can't wait to put it in our new dining room once and for all. The construction is finished and I can fill it with all the excess home decor and staging accessories for my furniture photography.

I plan to add some type of trim to cover the staples and raw edge on the inside of the door panels. I'll probably go back later and glue on a thin strip of burlap ribbon or maybe some very fine wood trim, but for now it'll have to be good enough as is, it'll be out of sight, out of sight. I don't care about anything until I get a chance to do it anyway, let me show you what this cabinet looks like now that it's all put back together. I really hope you enjoyed this furniture

upcycle

as much as I enjoyed putting it all together if you did, be sure to leave me a big thumbs up and comment before you leave.

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