Once upon a time I bought a glass door cabinet unit for a kitchen we once had, it was supposed to be cheap, temporary, and not relocated too many times. It was one of these typical plastic laminated MDF board furniture and it did the trick at keeping my very cabinet challenged kitchen tidy back in the day. Then we relocated 3 times in a year, and with each move the parkers and movers broke it yet a little more, it lost a glass panel, then a door, and the humidity of the monsoon in one of our apartments made it look even worse. so much so that after or most recent move the thing looked like this:
The infamous cabinet is the one on the left of the bookshelves, it’s no longer in the kitchen as it was originally planned to be, and isn’t even remotely holding anything food or kitchen related like it was in the previous 2 apartments. Nope it sits like an eyesore in my living room holding DVDs and CDs and a bunch of clutter away from my daughter behind the glass door, making it messy enough.
Until I got so fed up with it and decided that since it was there to stay a while longer with us, it might as well get a quirky make over:
I opened the door and painted the glass in a cream colour from the inside, then used gold 3D lining paint (lots of it) to draw little twirls on the glass, the drawer panel and the lower cabinet panel, and finished by using regular silver acrylic paint to line the tacky cheap wood panel carving imitations that were there. It is still pretty much a piece of furniture that will be destined to the dump yard one day, but at least while it is sitting in my living room it doesn’t have to hurt my eyes as bad, and it goes with the bright cheerful theme I am getting in that room.
A close up of the glass panel:
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