My recent love affair with Mid Century modern furniture is what I would call a tab unhealthy. I want every piece of furniture in my house to have angled tapered legs? Is that weird? No? Ok good…
This piece that I made was something that I had been thinking about for quite a long time and thinking of the most efficient way. Let’s be honest..I have a 3 yr old. I don’t have time be sitting in a garage making furniture. But I want to make furniture. What is a girl to do? What?! Sorry..mid mod gets me all revved up!
I didn’t have a lot of tools to attempt to create this but the one item I knew I wanted to get was the Kreg Jig. I have wanted one of these ever since I started following Shanty 2 Chic in Pinterest. If you ever want to make something, I would buy a Kreg Jig. It basically makes pocket holes so you can keep the edges looking nice. Once I started using this, the project ideas just started flowing.
The cabinet portions are actually from IKEA. These were great because you can pick from a variety of colors for the cabinet and have even more options for the doors themselves. I went with white cabinets with a gloss white door. I bought 2 of them and because IKEA is awesome, it comes with brackets to join the cabinets together in the back so they don’t move independently.
The biggest part was the casing around the cabinets. I spent a lot of time at Home Depot just walking aimlessly around the building materials, trying to find something that I liked. I ended up finding these laminated panels that were perfection! They cabinets are just under 4′ and just under 16″ deep and that is pretty much exactly how big the boards are. The only issues with boards like these are that they are called common boards so they are what my family terms “Bob’s Pretty Good Boards.” That means that they are not the best quality, meaning I spent a lot of time sitting on the floor pulling each of them out and laying them out to make sure they were not warped. You will need 4 boards because the side boards need to be about 32″ to accommodate the cabinets and the top and bottom boards.
Materials:
2 – 1 in. x 16 in. x 4 ft. Laminated Spruce Panel Board
2 – 1 in. x 16 in. x 4 ft. Laminated Spruce Panel Board – cut to 32″
2 – BESTA IKEA Cabinets with High Gloss White Doors
Kreg R3 Jr. Pocket Hole Jig System (Like a starter set)
Stain color of your choice – I wanted a reddish contrast to the stark white, so I chose Gunstock.
Wipe on Poly
I don’t have any pictures of attaching the feet, but that is pretty self explanatory. Once you put the boards together you need to sand the crap out of the edges so they are perfect and smooth. Once you do that, you can stain as many times as it takes until it gets to the level of dark that you want. I think I stained twice.
I then did like 5 coats of wipe on poly. If you have never used on wipe on poly it is very very thin and takes lots of coats. But it is much easier to work with than a lot of thicker polys.
Once you stain and poly it and attach the legs, you basically nestle the cabinets inside the frame you just made. The cabinets are really heavy so there isn’t really a need to secure them to the frame but that is up to you. It is a two person job for that part.
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-Karen
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