Frosted Glass Bath Storage Cabinet Makeover

by Wendi @ H2OBungalow

This little bath storage cabinet makeover has been a long time coming. It was a neglected run down cabinet hidden away at the back of my closet for almost a year. It was also a lot more work than I initially thought it would be. Only because I was kind of figuring out how to do this as I was going along. Oh, and then there was an extra little twist I had to work into this makeover as well.

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What kind of twist you ask?

This project is for Themed Furniture Makeover Day, and you guys know what that means! It means I had to fit my makeover into a theme. This months theme for our group of furniture refinishing bloggers? Animals.

All I had to do was make my bath storage cabinet makeover fit an animal theme. Simple, right? I think the challenge was making over my cabinet into something I'd actually like and use.

Digging through my stash of supplies felt like I was trying to come up with a new outfit for date night :) I mixed and matched paints, decorative items, stencils and finishes until I had piles of stuff everywhere. I even tested out several paint combinations on the inside of my storage cabinet.

I ended up choosing a light grey called Yesteryear for the inside and a pretty blue-green Cascade on the outside. Both are acrylic based which I think will wear well for a non-distressed bath cabinet. I decided to frost the glass panels with frost glass paint and stencil the entire cabinet with my bird stencil in a white acrylic based multi-surface paint. I picked a poly sealer from my stash from DecoArt because I had some left over from another project. I also like the finish and it's at an afordable price point. **I have a link to each of these product in my post on my blog if you'd like to know what they are**

Once I had my stenciled bird layout drafted on paper, I built my design out from the center.

I wanted this bathroom storage cabinet makeover to be unique:) So I decided to stencil my pattern over corners and across the frosted glass inserts. I took the glass in and out several times in this process. You'll only have to do this once because I'm showing you the easy way :)

With the glass insert in place, position the stencil. Next, stencil the area on the cabinet frame and on the glass where the stencil lies flat only. Don't worry about stenciling where the stencil isn't laying flat. Your glass will look like this. Next, take out the glass, line up the stencil on a flat surface and fill in the gaps at the edges. Easy, right?

It turned out great

Has plenty of storgae

And I love how the stencil pattern cascade down and around the front of cabinet. I shortened my post a little. If you need more details please click my post link to read this post in full:)

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Marcy on Aug 23, 2015
Really, really fabulous, I especially like the color.

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- Wendi @ H2OBungalow on Aug 23, 2015
  @Marcy Thank you so much! I love the color too, it's crisp and clean feeling.
  
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Diane on Aug 11, 2020

I love this. I need this in my life!!

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