Saturday 31 January 2015

A new cupboard for free

Once the hall had been decorated, I noticed just how little I liked our old shoe cupboard. It had been a cheap ( and quite nasty) one from Argos I think, so it didn't have much going for it. However, we have so many shoes (I swear they multiple at night!) that a cupboard of some kind was needed in the hallway.

I'd already taken the door off when I remembered to take a 'before' photo! 

Then I had a thought! .....
I had come across a piece of decorative panelling in the shed that had been behind my tool cupboard for years. So long in fact, I can't actually remember why I had bought it in the first place! I also had plenty of primer and white satinwood paint leftover from the hallway. Also, I had kept the white porcelain door handles from our old kitchen. I could feel a project coming on and I LOVE a project!!

I took the door off and then prised it apart. Using the old bit of plastic as a template, I cut a panel from the decorative latticework and re built the door, gluing it correctly at the joints which it hadn't been before!


One coat of primer and a couple of coats of white satinwood and one new handle later..we have a totally new shoe cupboard to match our hallway at a cost of zero pence!! Hoorah for hoarding bits and pieces in my shed. My builder laughs at me, because I am always saying "Oh yes, I have something that will do for that in my shed!" I think he imagines a tardis at the end of the garden!

It even matches the radiator cover and the handles on the understairs cupboards were replaced with white porcelain handles too, so it all ties in.

10 comments:

  1. well done! A little TLC and elbow grease and your shoes have a beautiful new home. Looks great.
    Wendy

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    1. Thank you for the comment and for taking time to look at my blog Wendy! Welcome. Juliette

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  2. Well done, something out of nothing, it looks very good, I hate shoes all over the place, hubby only last week put a some shelves in the cupboard under the stairs, for our shoes.

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    1. Thanks! Yes, that would be a better place to have ours really, but it's already full of washing machine, Hoover, ironing board, filing cabinet etc etc etc....!

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  3. We seem to have a huge workshop full of "might come in handy" things. he says they will be useful - I'm not so sure!

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    1. That's what my husband says - he's always trying to get me to take it all to the tip! I shan't let him though!

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  4. They are a bane aren't they. Well done, that is a good makeover.

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    1. Thanks. I swear as fast as I reassign them back into their wardrobes, another pair appears! Surely they can only wear one pair at once?!

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    1. Thanks! It feels great to make something out of nothing and of course it frees up a bit of space in the shed to store another 'useful' item!!

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