My paint swatch cupboards are completed! And why do I name these my paint swatch cupboards? It’s as a result of I painted swatches of 72 totally different paint colours on the doorways. And they’re superb. 😀
Oh, yeah. And I painted the cupboard black. I’ll wager y’all weren’t anticipating that, had been you? I do know, I do know. You’re pondering, “Kristi, why on the earth would you paint that black once you mentioned you’re making an attempt to reduce the black within the room?!” I get it.
However in the long run, I simply couldn’t carry myself to color it white. I requested myself this query. If these doorways had been a chunk of art work somewhat than cupboard doorways, and I needed to border this piece of art work to hold on the wall, what coloration body would I placed on it?
To be trustworthy, my first selection would most likely be a skinny gold body. However that didn’t translate to cupboards as a result of there was no method I used to be going to color the cupboard gold. So I went to my subsequent choice. If this had been a chunk of art work, would I put a white body on it? No, I truly wouldn’t. The plain body coloration to me can be black. In order that’s what I made a decision to do! I framed my stunning, colourful paint swatch art work cupboard doorways with a black body to essentially set them off. And I like the way it turned out!
So now let me again up a bit and present you ways I completed off these cupboards. After ending out the construct of the particular cupboard, I wooden stuffed the entire nail holes and sanded these clean. After which I used to be able to caulk. I needed to fill all of those cracks with caulk earlier than portray. I at all times spend lots of time on these ending particulars as a result of I believe placing time in to those actually pays off on the completed piece.
For instance, see this little crack the place the wooden body met the body of the IKEA cupboard?
All of these areas obtained full of caulk.
After which you may see the little hole between the IKEA cupboard and the trim on the prime.
And right here it’s stuffed in with caulk.
If you happen to take the time to do these ending particulars, it actually will repay on the completed challenge.
When the caulk was dry, I taped off the frames of the IKEA cupboards (which I needed to maintain white), after which put a coat of white primer on all the pieces I needed to color black.
And after two coats of black paint, the cupboard was completed! I don’t have a paint coloration for you as a result of I blended the black utilizing two black paints that I had readily available — Behr Gentle Black and Behr Satin Black (which is what I used on the studio bathroom vanity).
This cupboard is big and heavy. It’s about 64 inches extensive, 15.5 inches deep, and simply over 8 ft tall. And when pushing it into place, I discovered that the crown molding caught up just a little an excessive amount of for the cupboard to be pushed flat towards the wall. So I needed to take it off and minimize this bizarre little angle so it will match underneath the sloped ceiling.
And let me let you know, making an attempt to determine learn how to minimize that angle with my miter noticed was no joke. I felt so dumb making an attempt to determine that out, however I lastly obtained it, and it truly match completely with the ceiling! After which I needed to repeat that course of on the opposite aspect. 😀
So general, I completely love how this cupboard turned out. However one factor I’ve realized about myself is that I don’t like cupboards with out pulls on them. I believed I didn’t need any cupboard pulls on these doorways as a result of I didn’t wish to disrupt the move of the colours.
So I ordered the push-open {hardware} from IKEA in order that I may hold the doorways free from seen {hardware}.
However now that I can see the completed cupboard, I believe the doorways want pulls. I believe the design is extra like wallpaper. I wouldn’t put up wallpaper after which resolve that nothing can go on the wallpaper.
As a substitute, I’d deal with the wallpaper as one layer of design, after which I’d dangle a mirror, cabinets, art work, and many others., over the wallpaper.
So no I simply must resolve what pulls to make use of to complete off these doorways.
I had initially bought these quite simple pulls after I thought these cupboards had been going to be pink and gold like the opposite cupboards within the room. These are the a lot shorter model of the lengthy pulls which are on the drawers on the mural wall.
Or I may use these quite simple knobs, that are what I used on the cupboard doorways on the mural wall.
Or I may go a special path altogether. However I need one thing quite simple and understated.
However aside from that, the cupboard is completed, and I may sit and stare at all of it day. 😀
That is the view of the cupboard from my desk. All of these colours make me so joyful!
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and beautify the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.
