 We just up-cycled this crazy thrift store find, broken door and all, into this! Our beauty and the beast inspired on more cabinets! And we'll show you how we did it right now. What is up? Welcome back! Do you like to do a builder to make it? So do we. And we have a new video each week. This week we're making a hulking hooch display case. Like, huge. So we had our first customer call from outside and want to come in to pick up some country chic paint. Now, when we were still at home, I could put it on the front porch, no big deal. But he wanted to take a look at colors. And guess where they were? On a rack in the warehouse. And so I told Garrett, we need to start putting those up front because now that we have a retail space and we're listed as a retailer for country chic paint, people are going to want to come in and take a look. So I need a display cabinet to put these paints out front. So she picked the biggest hutch she could find. Yeah, so I saw a little bookcase and I was like, now we could do this little $30 bookcase. But what I think we need to really showcase these paints in a retail setting is this hutch. And I don't know if you can see, you don't have to get too detailed with it. It has a base cabinet and then it has a top hutch. So this week we decided we were going to break these into two projects. And this week we were going to tackle the base cabinet. Step one, we're going to gather all of our supplies. This was a pretty big shopping list. But we started with we need one, one by 12 by 10 foot. We need another one by 12 by 8 foot. Hold up. This got real expensive real fast. We actually went to the store, the hardware store, and purchased all of the wood for this project, walked out with a shocked look on our faces. We spent $240. Now that did include a full pack of nails, but everything else. That was no paint. Was 100% for this project, for this base cabinet, $240. And I knew that we had not yet purchased the materials to make the upper hutch. Who did the hutch? And it was going to cost at least as much. So we're talking close to $500 for this cabinet. Now I love building our own furniture, but you do have to have a reality check in there somewhere. I said, this is so expensive for a pretty shaker, meaning simple, style cabinet. I mean, is it a build or buy at that point? I mean, yes, that's what I was faced with. So what do we do? Step two, go find an alternative. We're going to go hit the thrift shop and see if we can come up with something that might suit our needs or we might be able to modify to suit our needs. Now I originally had planned to go to the thrift shop anyway, because I was looking for some antique legs for the bottom of the space cabinet because I thought that would be cool. But now we have a new purpose for going to the thrift shop. We're going to see if we can find something that maybe is a little bit cheaper that we get upcycled. Oh, upcycle. I like it. A broken piece of furniture. Well, it's only a little bit broken, just the store's broken. And it's got this crazy chicken wire on it. I don't even understand that. No, you've got to see the vision. You've got to be a visionary here for $175, which is already, what, $65 cheaper than the base cabinet that we were going to start with that didn't include the hutch. Or the paint. Or the paint, yes. Yeah, good point. Yeah. We chose this cabinet. I think this cabinet is awesome. First of all, doesn't it look like the cabinet from Beauty and the Beast? I mean, she looks like she should be talking to you. She looks like she should be saying, help me. She is with this poor broken door. The purpose of this cabinet is to store our Country Chic paint out here and what will one day be our retail space. So for now, though, I think this cabinet will do a beautiful job of displaying those paints. So this shelf goes right here and then there are three shelves over here and then we have these drawers to store other things like brushes and extra finishes. It's a great looking cabinet and it's much more ornate than the one we were going to do. Oh yeah, that's what I could do. Yeah, I'm definitely not this type of carpenter. I am more of a, just, that'll do. And what's kind of cool about this that I love, it doesn't have like a false front here. The whole top here is scalloped and shaped in this arched design. The whole top is arched like this and then the legs, they're just way fancier than what we would have built. Now granted, we do love that farmhouse look, which is why we're going to paint this with our Country Chic paints and give it this farmhouse upcycled Beauty and the Beast inspired. Farmhouse Beauty and the Beast. Yeah, wait till you see it, wait till you see it. Step three, a return original supplies. That's Kim's job. Kim does all the returns. He won't do a return. He will just keep it and live with it forever. He will not stay in there and do a return. So I'll just take care of it. I'll do it. I'll take care of it. It's so easy. All you need is the card. You don't even need a receipt these days. It's a hassle. It's a hassle. Step four, we're going to gather all of our new supplies. This one's a much smaller list. This stuff fits in the car actually. Right, I was going to say. I don't know about smaller. We need quite a few things here. At least you can put it in a bucket. Yeah, it all fit in a bucket. So we'll start with that. We did need a bucket. We needed some primer paint. We're going to use our Country Chic paints. We have some beautiful colors picked out, and I can't wait to see how they look on this cabinet. We needed some paint brushes, of course. Towels, gloves, vinegar, water, wood filler, and a little bit of sandpaper. And that is it. Step five, come up with a plan. We're going to have to work together in Photoshop. I'm going to take a picture, bring it into Photoshop, and kind of get a feel for what we're thinking we're going to do to this thing. Yeah, that's the great thing about Photoshop is I can test out some color schemes of what I have in my head. I don't know if I, 100% if I want to go a completely light finish or a dark finish and add some light details to it. We'll see, we'll see. That's what the design process is for. And that's what we're going to do in Photoshop. I'm going to take a picture, and I'll meet you in Photoshop. Step six, now we're going to clean it up and wipe it down. Give it a little wax on, wax off. By wax on, wax off, I mean wipe it down with vinegar. Yes, we're going to remove these doors. I don't think we're going to use these as we display the paint, but we are thinking we might use them as their own piece of artwork. We're going to do something with it, remove the chicken wire, and put something else back there. So I think we can do something cool with these by themselves. So this piece is a veneer finish. This is not solid wood. There are solid wood pieces like these drawers, poles here, the fronts are solid wood. But in order to paint over this, we do need to clean this with one part vinegar and three parts water. So we're going to give it a little sand, rough up the shiny finish a little with some 320 grit sandpaper, and then we're going to give it a wipe down with that vinegar water solution and prep it for painting. I'm going to remove all of the hardware and then fill in the holes with this plastic, plastic wood. Yeah. Super dusty. We're just wiping it down with that vinegar and water mixture. I mean like super dusty. Now we're just going to plug some of the holes with this plastic wood. It's like wood, but it's plastic. Seven. Now we primer. All right, so for this piece of furniture, as I said before, this has a veneer outside. So we have sanded it, cleaned it, sanded it. Now we need to prime it. Now you don't want to prime it with a latex primer because it's not going to adhere as well to this veneer outside. So we're using a shellac base primer. Country Chic has a bonding primer that's perfect for this job. However, I don't have any in stock at the moment. It's actually on its way here, for another week. So I had to go get this. We are using my can is over there. Something called bin and it's a shellac base primer and we tinted it, a navy blue that's going to match our midnight sky paint. So this is like a halfway there. It's a tinted primer. Step eight. Now we paint. It's adhering really well. I can see it's very much prepped and ready for this chalk paint and we're excited to show you that blending paint technique. So we're going to be using three colors to paint this cabinet. The whole thing. We're going to use midnight sky. We're going to outline it in midnight sky. Then we're going to add, start the blending process with a little tide pool. Come in a little bit with the tide pool. And then the center it's going to fade to string of pearls. String of pearls. So many fades. Now this is where Garrett and his artistic background comes into play. He's going to be doing the blending for me. So while he's blending I'm going to go ahead and paint everything that's just going to be midnight sky. I'm going to go ahead and paint all the solid sections. He's going to start this blending technique but I'll wait to get started. I'm going to let you kind of show him. Can you talk through it a little bit? Thin coats are better here. It is much better to layer this paint than it is to glop it on and wait for it to dry. It dries really fast in a thin coat. You can come back and put two coats on faster than you can wait for one thick coat to dry. Alright for the blending technique what we found works best for our project is to use tide pool down in the middle I cover it in tide pool and then we're going to come around the edge in the midnight sky let them dry for a little bit dry to the touch and then we're going to come in with the midnight sky and start to blend it in and then the last part is the pearl. No, string of pearls. String of pearls blend that out. Oh that's why you called it pearl harbor. So all that's on here right now is our coat of primer our tinted primer and I don't know if you can tell from there but the tide pool is just a little bit different from the primer so that works out really well. Alright now with the round brush and the midnight sky I'm just going to come in and dab the paint where I want it until my brush is dry and then start to lightly swirl it into the skipping stone stepping stone. Tide pool. Tide pool. Every time it's another color skipping stone. Just kind of get it up into edges and dab it around. Nice smooth brush stroke so fix that. Dab a little in this corner a little in this corner a little in this corner Start swirling baby. Now I'm going to just use a little gently swirl start to bring it out and get it nice and dry on a piece of cardboard start to gently swirl it out swirl it on out wet our cardboard get our brush a little damp just using a small round brush and a string of pearls just get a lightly dab it in there just get a little bit on there just a little teeny bit and then I'm going to rub it around on the cardboard just want a little bit this light hand oh spritzing with a round brush and the tide pool little same thing going to try to keep it a little bit dry I'm going to keep my canvas a little bit wet I'm just going to gently blend it in do the same thing in the last two here it's all dry spin it around see how she looks at a time it is Thursday night so we're going to have to finish this up next week but we have big plans Ken has big dreams right if you saw the little design that Garrett did and you want to come back next week we're going to add cricket stuff the bling, the accents then we add the accents that's right we're going to put our in the back gold diamonds we're going to use our glow forge we've got plans for handles for this thing made from the glow forge and I think we're going to add a little something on the sides here all those details haven't been worked out yet but this project started out as one thing grew to this which was a bit adventurous for two days worth of work and now I have a bigger dream so we're going to have to let this video into two parts it just keeps getting bigger who knows how big this thing will be it might actually be animated in the end it might actually dance when we're done add though you could leave it like this it's beautiful I did leave this shelf a light blue it could do it in a dark blue I love the mix of colors but what this chalk paint needs to sit just like this this raw chalk paint it does need a top coat on it and we will at the end we're not doing it yet because we've got more work to do but country chic has this clear coat that you would put on and over all of the chalk paint and they also carry a tough coat which is what we're going to use for each of these shelf tops because we're going to have paint on here on off on off all the time so we want to make sure it has a nice tough surface for each of these shelves so I just wanted to show you guys that if you stopped here I wanted you to know that you do need a clear coat or tough coat this paint but we're not we're not there yet so if you're not joining us for the patron after show we will see you next week where we'll finish doing building and making it that's today