{"id":31914,"date":"2016-08-15T01:00:34","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T06:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=31914"},"modified":"2017-07-11T17:46:19","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T22:46:19","slug":"converting-china-cabinet-linen-cabinet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=31914","title":{"rendered":"Converting a China Cabinet into a Linen Cabinet"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am sooooo excited about today’s reveal.\u00a0 This project has been in the back of my mind for a long time. A few months ago, Jordan blogged about going on a shopping spree with designer Eddie Ross, and while they were perusing the antique sale, he offered up a great storage tip.\u00a0 He said that a china cabinet would make a great linen cabinet\/closet.\u00a0 Well, when I read that tidbit, I knew it was the answer to a storage problem I had been having.\u00a0 When we bought our house, there was a huge linen closet at the top of our stairs along with a lot of wasted space.\u00a0 Well, we tore out that closet and combined its square footage with the wasted space, and created a big walk-in closet for Mr. Right.\u00a0 (It also involved moving our bedroom door, but that’s beside the point.)\u00a0 However, I had to give up a linen closet in the process.\u00a0 So, since reading Eddie’s suggestion, I have thought about converting a china cabinet into a linen cabinet, and it has finally become a reality.<\/a><\/h3>\n

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For months and months, I have been on the search for a china cabinet that was the right style and size.\u00a0 It couldn’t be too big, and it needed to be a traditional style to fit in with the rest of our furnishings.<\/h3>\n

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One day a few weeks ago when I was browsing around at my favorite consignment shop (Room Service) here in Lexington, I found the one<\/span>.\u00a0 I gasped.\u00a0 It wasn’t actually a china cabinet, though.\u00a0 They were calling it a secretary.\u00a0 (I think it has a double life.\u00a0 There are ridges on all of the shelves for plates to rest in).\u00a0 As soon as I saw it, I knew that it was coming home with me.\u00a0 Well, actually I had to hire someone to haul it home and carry it up the steps, but you know what I mean.<\/h3>\n

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If you recall, this is what our upstairs hallway looked like before.\u00a0 I think the linen cabinet looks so much better, don’t you?<\/h3>\n

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My plan all along was to paint the cabinet’s exterior a pure white.\u00a0 I didn’t want a rustic look but just a pure white cabinet with a yellow\/gold interior.\u00a0 The cabinet is mahogany, and I didn’t realize until I started painting with chalk paint, that the mahogany would be a challenge for me.\u00a0 It took more coats of primer and paint than I ever thought it would.\u00a0 Before I started painting, though, I made a few tweaks.<\/h3>\n

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First, Jordan and I removed the original back of the cabinet.\u00a0 I wanted the linen cabinet to have a bead board backing.\u00a0 That was an easy fix.<\/h3>\n

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I just measured it and had the bead board cut at a big box store.\u00a0 Having the back off made painting the interior a lot easier, and I painted the bead board before I attached it.\u00a0 So, without much effort, the interior was complete.<\/h3>\n

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Then I spent four days priming and painting the exterior.\u00a0 I started out with chalk paint, but the mahogany bled through and made the chalk paint turn pink.\u00a0 Not what I wanted……So, I applied two coats of primer.\u00a0 Jordan suggested that I skip the chalk paint and use the same semi-gloss latex that is on all of our doors and woodwork. That’s what I did, and it worked. I let it all cure for a week, and then when I got home from California this week-end, it was time to do the fun part.\u00a0 I put it to work.<\/h3>\n

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The converted cabinet is the perfect place to store the toilet tissues along with towels, washcloths, candles, soaps, etc.<\/h3>\n

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All of those items now are readily available when we need them.<\/h3>\n

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\u00a0The cabinet still has plenty more room for storage.\u00a0 I plan to assemble a first aid kit and put it in the cabinet along with sheets and blankets we aren’t using.<\/h3>\n

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And look at this little bonus.\u00a0 It has a built-in desk, and this is the reason it was called a secretary.\u00a0 You can see that the finish is distressed (and not in a good way), but I don’t plan to change it.\u00a0 I am so excited with how this project turned out.<\/h3>\n

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I must tell you that when I was spending those hours painting, I was saying to myself, “Never again,” but now that it is fulfilling its purpose, I know that it was all worth it.<\/h3>\n

As you can see my linen closet stocked with Quilted Northern<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0What do you keep your linen closet stocked with to be #MegaPrepped?<\/h3>\n

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Take care.<\/h3>\n

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I am sooooo excited about today’s reveal.\u00a0 This project has been in the back of my mind for a long time. A few months ago, Jordan blogged about going on a shopping spree with designer Eddie Ross, and while they were perusing the antique sale, he offered up a great storage tip.\u00a0 He said that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":32071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[3,13,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31914"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31914"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35892,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31914\/revisions\/35892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}