Armoire Transformation by A Little Glass Box

 

What a great way to start the week by visiting all you lovelies on Ucreate!

Normally I call a little glass box home where I share lots of DIY projects, home decor, and party ideas as well as fill everyone in on my daily life shenanigans. I want to give a huge shout out to Kari for allowing me to stop by and hang out with you all as well as share my most recent project.

I’m really excited about this project because it is the perfect example of “rewriting your furniture’s story”.  I sometimes feel like after we label a piece of furniture we can’t see past its original use. I love adapting furniture and putting it back into my life.

This project is an example of how we took a child’s armoire and turned it into something more grown up. It’s now repurposed and functional.

We used: Power tools, stain, paint, mirror, silicone adhesive, hardware, and molding to achieve its new look.

The first thing we did before even touching the armoire was to draw out the vision for the new piece by using the current picture of the furniture and drawing over it. And since we’re super professionals over here at Casa de Schutz, I used crayon for my sketch- haha.

We then removed the circle mirror & circular molding from the front of the door and cut out a larger rectangular hole and used molding to build up and frame the new rectangular hole.

Then we entered the land of lots of sanding and painting. I chose a basic creamy white and Olympic paint in Mountain Stream to highlight the armoire. We then aged and enriched the tones of the two colors by rubbing a little bit of Minwax Wood Finish stain in Dark walnut and quickly wiped it off.

We then cut some crown molding and attached it to the top of the armoire after we removed the old decorative molding from the top. We stained it as well as the legs of the unit the same color we rubbed over the paint. The look of the molding really helps to “finish” the armoire and make it look more substantial.

We inserted the mirror onto the front of the armoire (which we had our local glass shop cut for us) using Silicone glue.

The last step was installing our new hardware which we bought from Home depot.

Now this armoire has grown from child’s furniture to being worthy of some adult love. We are so excited to be able to now use it in the master bedroom. I really hope this inspires you to look at your furniture with potential. I had so much fun with you all and thanks for making this gal feel so welcome.

 

What a beautiful transformation! I’m crazy about the mirror, too!

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