Wine Cabinet Makeover

I’ve been wanting a wine cabinet for months now. Justifying paying $300-600 for one was definitely holding me back. I’ve also been scouring KSL and Facebook marketplace hoping for one to show up. I literally have been looking randomly for months and finally I found one! Even better than that I paid $40.00!! Yes that’s correct, $40 flipping dollars!

Granted she needed some TLC but after my recent dresser makeover (a post for another time) I was up for the challenge... so I thought 🤦‍♀️ But it was in good shape, nothing cracked or broken and I had dreams of where this cute thing could go, so this is what we started with. Nothing a little paint and hardware can’t fix right??

I would LOVE to say this was a simple weekend project but it didn’t quite happen that way, a gal can dream right? I’m actually physically and mentally exhausted from this project 😂  but that’s because I took the scenic route, lessons learned.

I sanded the entire thing, the wine racks took some extra time, turns out it’s really hard to sand in between wine rack slots. After the sanding I put a couple coats of minwax stain over it. I had other plans for the drawer, cabinet doors and the racks. I wanted a distressed white wood look so I took to my trusty chalk paint. I do a pretty thick coat covering the surface then wipe away excess and sand down to the stain to create the weathered look. THEN my fatal mistake 😩 for reasons unknown I tried to do the same on each side of the walls where the shelves are. It looked awful. So I had to strip the paint, re-sand and stain about 5 coats to get it to match again. Grrrr stupid imagination.

We then decided the white clashed too much so I put a thin coat of stain over the chalk paint and it left me with this

I won’t pretend that was my idea, it was hubby’s (he actually had a good idea 😛) turns out it matched my floors almost exactly!! And I still had my weathered wood look I was dreaming of.

I sealed it with minwax polycrylic in satin. I wanted more matte but a little shine. I could have probably gone with polyurethane but polycyclic is better for chalk paint so I just used the same kind over the stain as well, it worked out good enough! I did 3 coats over the entire piece and about 5 over the high traffic areas (doors, drawer, wine holders, top)

Annndd for the finished product 🥁 🥁🥁

Worth all of the blood sweat and tears 😭 it fits perfectly where I wanted it to and fills up my sad, empty kitchen wall!