Small Hutch Makeover

This is another piece that I have had for many years, Johnny brought it home for me.  He obviously used to support my addiction to old furniture, not anymore!  

I decided it is finally time for me to do something with it.

I always knew there should have been legs on this, there is a strange bracket on the bottom.  We had to set it on a couple of foam puzzle pieces otherwise the bolts would have dug into the floor.  I saw a similar piece on Kijiji last winter and it had 60's type legs on it.

I had to pop the top off of the cabinet to remove the glass doors.

I originally was going to paint this black, but instead decided to go with gray.  I used wall paint that I bought to paint the livingroom, that project is still waiting. 

I adhered fabric to the back of the hutch with Mod Podge.  I also coated the fabric with Mod Podge.   

I put a coat of varathane on the hutch so that the stain wouldn't soak into the paint.  I antiqued the whole piece, including the fabric, with ebony stain.  The bottom to panels of fabric took the stain okay, but the top soaked up the stain in a couple of spots. 

I was just going to replace the top panel, but then decided to tear out all three and put new pieces in, I like it better clean white.

  I sprayed the hardware white. 

I added legs to the bottom, the type I had seen on the other cabinet I was telling you about.

Here it is set up with a few props. 

 

After all these years, it has finally been MacGIRLverized!

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