How to Paint a Turquoise Two-Door Jewelry Cabinet

I’m excited today to be joining in with Jen Goode from 100 Directions and LOTS of other bloggers to celebrate National Craft Month!   This week’s theme is color so I’m sharing a project using my favorite color — TURQUOISE! Here’s what it looked like BEFORE painting with my homemade chalk paint.

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Supplies Needed for Turquoise Jewelry Cabinet Makeover

• old wood jewelry cabinet
• homemade chalk paint
• polycrylic
• paint brushes
• sandpaper or old rags
• metal sheets
• extra fine Sharpie marker
• tin snips
• staple gun & staples

For this project, I used an Ace Hardware paint called Turquoise Bay.  I used my recipe for homemade chalk paint to make it a little easier to use.

The photo above shows how it looked after two coats of paint.

Then I distressed it with a wet rag.  Sometimes I use sandpaper, too.  If distressing is new to you find an old piece, or even just a piece of wood, to practice on.  It looked like this after distressing:

Then I covered it with one coat of polyurethane.  Sorry, I forgot to take a picture of that step.  So we’ll skip over to the doors…

I store my metal sheets on a pant hanger.  As you can see, I can hang opened and unopened packages along with smaller pieces leftover from previous projects this way.  (I also store my stencils this way, too.)

To get the size just right I save the glass from the jewelry cabinet door to trace around with an extra fine Sharpie.  If there are two doors I make sure the pattern matches on each side.

Then I cut it out with my tin snips and stapled it in.  (Make sure you get the 1/4″ staples.  Even with that length you’ll sometimes have to angle them so they don’t stick out the front.)

Ta da!

Here’s a close up of the distressing.

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I’ve been sharing my jewelry cabinet makeover projects for a while now.  Please leave a comment and let me know if you still have any questions about them.  Maybe I’m not making something clear or you want more details about a certain step?  Would you like a video of a jewelry cabinet makeover?  Leave a comment and let me know.

‘Til the next project,

 Ann @ Duct Tape and Denim

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Featured on: Anything Blue Friday, Roadkill Rescue. Originally published on March 7, 2016.