more before and afters of some of my creations...

I had this fabulous idea to MAKE a desk/cabinet area in this little nook upstairs in our loft. I once again went to habitat for humanity and found some treasures.

Here's ALL the BEFORE's of what turned into the cabinets and desk:

#1. EMPTY NOOK. BEFORE

the blank slate
#2. Part of the cabinet side. This piece had to be cut to size to fit the extra space on the left side of the cabinet and painted $ 5.oo at goodwill
#3. the original cabinet. this started as an 18'' deep floor cabinet that I saw potential in being a good hiding place for all of our electrical components and wires to be hung on the wall. It was so heavy. We were afraid it was going to fall off the wall. Barry put lot and lots of screws to hold this baby up.
#4. originally a piece of a bathroom cabinet. to be the desk drawers- sanded, painted, new knobs and shortened. I took a hack saw to the kick board to make it desk height.
#5. desk top started as a blue HUGE laminate counter top which needed to be custom cut to fit our space then it got a great decoupage treatment. The nice guy at habitat for humanity gave me all three of these pieces for $50.00 (believe me custom cabinets are WAY WAY more expensive.)
ADD these all together with a table saw, sander, paint, glue, paper, screws and a lot of elbow grease and get something LOVELY!


HALF WAY DONE
I added a classic front by adding molding to the cabinet doors and paint. Here it is hung. At this point still needs the side shelves and molding

BEFORE




AFTER


started as #4
this started as #3 and #2
started as #5