Oaken cabinet
BEFORE/THE IRRITATING PART
Where should I start?
Let’s just say that the hinges on this vintage piece, were not made of quality material. They broke, piercing the thin veneer and destroying the upper bar door.
I took them out and made a surprisingly-accurate technical drawing. 🙂 Since I’m incredibly lucky to have a MacGyver type of dad, I called and charmed him into making brand new hinges from scratch. Yay! Thank you, daddy!
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- The broken hinge and veneer damage
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- The old broken hinges
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- The technical drawing
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- New versus old
After solving drama number one, I needed to focus on the damaged veneer. Wood glue and a week with carpenter clamps helped, but there were parts that needed to be evened out with wood filler.
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- Chipped off veneer
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- clean…
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- …glue…
So now we’re ready to paint, right? Well… no.
After focusing on the hinges, I totally missed the fact that the lock on this awful, shameless door was broken as well.
A few hours browsing the net for ‘møbellås’ ,400 kr and 5 days later, I eventually got the right size lock. JEEEEEEZ….
THE FUN PART
Finally, I could get to the fun part. Painting!
I thought I would go with the black and teak theme again. Well, black and oak in this case. I managed to get the old lacquere off the door fronts and stain them in a bit of a darker walnut shade. To add some extra detail I decorated the sides with my newest stencils and exchanged the drawer knobs with big golden ones from Zara Home .
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- Zara home knobs
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- Veneer to beautiful to cover with paint
THE FINAL EFFECT-UNIQUE OAKEN CABINET
The new hinges, my MacGyver-dad custom made for me fitted like a glove! New lock as well. I love the contrast between matte black finish and natural oaken wood! Stencil pattern and golden details make it even better.
Buy it HERE.
