Mid-Century Modern Landing Zone
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This is truly an upcycle project as it utilizes materials from three different pieces of furniture. None of the pieces of furniture were in good shape so I had no hesitation in utilizing the different parts.
Before: Mid Century record cabinet (The teak was in poor condition as were the legs. The piece was made of particle board with teak veneer. The particle board had gotten wet at some point damaging the bottom piece of the cabinet)
This old garage cabinet was massive. We used a reciprocating saw to demo it. We have a lot of materials left over for future projects.
We started by cleaning the record cabinet really well and cutting off the damaged legs flush with the bottom shelf.
I wanted to cover all the damaged teak with the wood from the garage cabinet. The wood was cut to size to fit each of the sides, bottom and top. We used a circular saw with the Kreg rip-cut jig.
We used the DeWalt 18 gauge nailer to attach the outside boards as well as the trim. Prior to encasing the record cabinet in the "new" wood, we used the nailer to add some structural stability to the cabinet as some of the joinery was loose.
We added mid-century legs.
We cut the trim and glued and brad nailed it into place.
The finished cabinet in its new home at my house. Notice one of the shelves and the vertical boards were not painted. Once the teak shelves were cleaned, I decided they were too beautiful to cover with paint. Compared to the rest of the cabinet, they were in almost perfect condition. By using stain on the molding and shellac on the sides, we were able to bring some continuity of color to the three types of wood.
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Fantastic job, what a difference! Brings a new meaning to downsizing, great job and good idea to leave some of the wood natural!
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This is beautiful!!
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Thank you. It's one of my favorites! ~Vicki
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where did you find the legs? They're perfect.
have you thought about taking the top off (leaving it off) and use it as a bench to put your shoes on? You could then put hooks or baskets or shelves on the wall to hold the stuff you put on top. Just an idea :) YOU did a FAB job on this, btw!!