Build a Chalkboard Produce Crate. Build a Printers Triple Console Cabinet. Happy Monday!!! We are so glad to be back home! Thank you all for your patience with me last week as we traveled. There truly is no place like home. We'll be leaving again next week, but this time, we are coming to visit you! With all this travel and preparations and everything else going on, I've been afraid to start tackling projects, knowing I may not have the time to finish them. Well, I have a story for you today that has inspired me, and will hopefully inspire you too. My friend Jen Woodhouse was nine months pregnant when she wrote me saying she wanted to work on a bar cabinet, but her baby is due in three weeks. I got her the plans as fast as I could. And in literally the days before the new baby arrived, this is what Jen built. I feel so inspired to just go start tackling my projects now, even if my suitcase isn't unpacked yet, even if I need to start packing my next suitcase.
And might I say this buffet cabinet or sideboard is very beautiful??? So what is keeping you from building? The Vintage Magi:: From Trash to Treasure Tutorial: Cast-off Wall Cabinet Becomes Faux Apothecary Conversation Piece. Next I picked the paint, which I already had from an accent wall in a bedroom. It took about 3 layers of paint to get it how I wanted. I used a Martha Stewart roller I got at Home Depot. These rollers make a really smooth paint finish that goes on fast & easy. The clean-up is the best part because they are SO much easier (& faster!) I realized while I was painting, in order to protect my floors (& so it looked like it's own piece & not like a cabinet fell off the wall & lying on the floor), that it would need some furniture legs. I went back to the Ethan Allen picture for reference & the next time I was at Home Depot I grabbed some legs & mounting plates.
I've never attached legs to furniture before, but there's a first time for everything, right? It got really cold before I could do any more. A homemade version of Pottery Barn's Andover Cabinet in white at Thank GOD that Winter came & I had to take some time off or I would have wasted so much time making the Ethan Allen cabinet!
Cutting! They were! DIY Apothecary Cabinet. If you have a half dozen or so various sized iris carts and hate looking at their utilitarian plasticness, this post might be for you! Sure those carts and towers of drawers are handy but they don't look very nice. Since my room is essentially open to the entire upper level of my house (and even seen by some of the lower level) I have been looking for "prettier" storage. which led to a need for a set of card catalog drawers or an apothecary of some sort. Only without the steep price tag. I came across many great mail cubbies like this ...and realized they were essentially the same as a shoe organizer like this ClosetMaid 25 cube cabinet but I wasn't loving the idea of all the "mess" showing, and this made me think hmmm maybe I can make my own drawers!
This drawer (below) reminded me of the old berry flats with the pine ends and cardboard sides/bottom. Here's what I ended up making and how: while we were at it I had him cut me a template out of some salvaged acrylic. Cost Total. Build a Apothecary Console Table. Build a Apothecary Console. The free content provicded by this website is made possible by the following current sponsors.
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What can I say? I APPRECIATE you each and every time you visit, and want to make sure each time you visit is pleasant for you. Thank you! We have started working again at the Momplex! But today, I just couldn't wait to share a new plan with you! Remember a bit back when <the super amazing> Hillary built this amazing Rustic X Console Table from 2x4s? Yup, 2x4s! Well, after 22,000 of YOU <hey, thanks! And man is she beautiful! I ENCOURAGE you to stop over and visit Hillary and read about how she battled a wild fire to build this coffee table!
PS - Hillary is also be sharing her finishing tutorial and <gasp! Apothecary Media Console with Storage Doors. We decided to "splurge" for our Anniversary and Valentine's this year and we bought ourselves a new TV. Of course that meant we needed a new TV Stand. So I started looking around to figure out what I wanted and I started on pinterest and ended up at ana-White.com. I immediately fell in love with the Apothecary Console. I had also seen TV Stands with the storage doors, and I knew I loved those. I also found a plan for a console with storage doors on Ana's website. I loved the look of the Apothecary Console and the functionality of the storage doors, so I just decided I would draw my own plans and combine the two. I also didn't have room for a cabinet as wide as the original apothecary plans so I shortened it to three cabinets instead of four. Here is a little bit about what we did to build it. We used Clamps and a Square to make sure we were getting everything square.
When we attached the sides we used counter-sunk holes so we could fill them with Wood Filler We used a 2x4 for the base. DIY faux drawers & Anthropologie knob tutorial - Four Generations One Roof. Do you love Anthropologie? I do! It’s the perfect store when you are looking for something fun, bold and unique. When my dad and I made our DIY media console, I wanted the knobs to add a pop of color and exude glamour. What better place to go, Anthropologie.
One small problem, the knobs I wanted were to expensive so I decided to make my own Anthropology knockoff knobs. The tutorial couldn’t be easer. If you can find a design on sale, they are usually pretty reasonable. These knobs I wanted for our DIY Pottery Barn Media Cabinet were out of my budget, as I needed 12! I purchased 4 “four packs” of the turquois jewelry beads on sale for $2.49 for four! The doors for the cabinet are kitchen cabinet doors that we had left over. I did reinforce with small finish nails (use short finish nails & nail from the inside so you don’t see the nail head). Presto! Jessica Bruno We are a crew of four generations all living together under one roof. How to build a media console {tutorial} - Four Generations One Roof. The media console is finally finished. The media console that I loved was this one from Pottery Barn but the price tag was a bit scary.
I asked my dad about making a template for a media console and his response was, “why don’t you just buy one”. I knew that would be his response but after a little convincing and pleading he agreed to help. This was my inspiration from Pottery Barn. We are in the process of a family room makeover, you might have remembered seeing me nailing planks to the wall about a month ago. Miss Rhoda, from Southern Hospitality, has been helping me and I hope to have the final reveal in a couple weeks ! I did a post before Christmas when we started making the media console. This is what we came up with, I painted the cabinet with 1 coat of Annie Sloan Chalk Paint “French linen” and then mixed 75%Benjamin Moore “white diamond” with 25% ASCP “French linen” for the 2nd coat. We have a lumber mill about 1 mile from our house and look what I found for the top! Jessica Bruno.