My FINISHED 72-Shade Paint Swatch Cupboards!

My paint swatch cupboards are completed! And why do I name these my paint swatch cupboards? It’s as a result of I painted swatches of 72 completely different paint colours on the doorways. And they’re superb. 😀

Oh, yeah. And I painted the cupboard black! I’ll wager y’all weren’t anticipating that, had been you? 😀 I do know, I do know. You’re in all probability pondering, “Kristi, why on the planet would you paint that black whenever you mentioned you’re making an attempt to reduce the black within the room?!” I get it.

However ultimately, I simply couldn’t deliver myself to color it white. I requested myself this query. If these doorways had been a chunk of art work fairly than cupboard doorways, and I wished to border this piece of art work to hold on the wall, what shade body would I placed on this art work?

To be sincere, my first alternative would in all probability be a skinny gold body. However that first alternative didn’t translate to cupboards as a result of there was no manner I used to be going to color the cupboard gold. So I went to my second alternative. If this had been a chunk of art work, would I put a white body on it? No, I truly wouldn’t. The apparent body shade to me could be black. In order that’s what I made a decision to do! I framed my lovely, colourful paint swatch art work cupboard doorways with a black body to essentially set them off. And I really like the way it turned out!

So now let me again up a bit and present you ways I completed off these cupboards. After ending out the construct of the particular cupboard, I wooden stuffed the entire nail holes and sanded these clean. After which I used to be able to caulk. I wished to fill all of those cracks with caulk earlier than portray. I all the time spend quite a lot of time on these ending particulars as a result of I feel placing time in to those actually pays off on the completed piece.

For instance, see this little crack the place the wooden body met the body of the IKEA cupboard?

All of these areas acquired full of caulk.

After which you may see the little hole between the IKEA cupboard and the trim on the high.

And right here it’s stuffed in with caulk.

When you take the time to do these ending particulars, it actually will repay on the completed challenge.

When the caulk was dry, I taped off the frames of the IKEA cupboards (which I wished to maintain white), after which put a coat of white primer on every thing I wished to color black.

And after two coats of black paint, the cupboard was completed! I don’t have a paint shade for you as a result of I combined the black utilizing two black paints that I had available — Behr Gentle Black and Behr Satin Black (which is what I used on the studio lavatory vainness).

This cupboard is big and heavy. It’s about 64 inches vast, 15.5 inches deep, and simply over 8 toes tall. And when pushing it into place, I discovered that the crown molding caught up a bit too excessive for the cupboard to be pushed flat in opposition to the wall. So I needed to take it off and lower this bizarre little angle so it might match below the sloped ceiling.

And let me let you know, making an attempt to determine methods to lower that angle with my miter noticed was no joke. I felt so dumb making an attempt to determine that out, however I lastly acquired it, and it truly match completely with the ceiling! After which I needed to repeat that course of on the opposite aspect. 😀

So general, I completely love how this cupboard turned out. However one factor I’ve discovered about myself is that I don’t like cupboards with out pulls on them. I assumed I didn’t need any cupboard pulls on these doorways as a result of I didn’t need to disrupt the circulate of the colours.

So I ordered the push-open {hardware} from IKEA in order that I may maintain the doorways free from seen {hardware}.

However now that I can see the completed cupboard, I feel the doorways want pulls. I feel the design is extra like wallpaper. I wouldn’t put up wallpaper after which resolve that nothing can go on the wallpaper.

As a substitute, I might deal with the wallpaper as one layer of design, after which I’d grasp a mirror, cabinets, art work, and many others., over the wallpaper.

So I’m making an attempt to consider the paint swatch colours as the identical manner. They’re like wallpaper, and only one layer of the design. And it’s superb to place one other layer over them. Now I simply must resolve what pulls to make use of to complete off these doorways.

I had initially bought these quite simple pulls after I thought these cupboards had been going to be pink and gold like the opposite cupboards within the room. These are the a lot shorter model of the lengthy pulls which might be on the drawers on the mural wall.

Or I may use these quite simple knobs, that are what I used on the cupboard doorways on the mural wall.

Or I may go a special course altogether. However I need one thing very easy and understated.

However apart from that, the cupboard is completed, and I may sit and stare at all of it day. 😀

That is the view of the cupboard from my desk. All of these colours make me so glad!

UPDATE: I added door pulls! And out of the entire strategies, the one which appealed to me essentially the most as the most cost effective. I purchased the unfinished wooden cupboard knobs from House Depot, after which painted them within the colours of the rectangles that every knob could be hooked up to.

Are you able to see them? I completely love how these turned out!! In particular person, they’re very seen with out being distracting. They usually’re simply so darned cute!

I’m so glad that a number of individuals urged this. It’s the proper resolution, and I like that it’s type of quirky.

And now that the doorways have knobs on them, the entire thing appears to be like completed to me. I’m not only a slab-door-sans-door-pulls type of particular person. Even these low-cost little understated knobs give the entire thing a way more completed look to me.

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