Kitchen coffee station turned something else

I finally finished the kitchen coffee station that I got suckered into making.  I say that because I was hoping for a manly coffee station but ended up with just more real estate for doilies, plastic fruit and antique glassware.

I'm told I shouldn't post this yet because it's not properly decorated.  I'm not sure what that means.

Kinda creepy if you ask me.

I was not looking forward to painting the top of this beast.  Fortunately for me some jammy wearing crazy lady showed up and offered to paint.  We fed her dinner and off she went.

Thanks Mom!!!!

TV stand/Entertainment center

Here's the entertainment center I've been working on for 2 months.  The top is recycled Walnut and the rest is wormy Ash.  It's a tank.  Glad grandpa's back held out for the trip up the stairs.

The base is painted with black milk paint then 'distressed' with sandpaper.  The pottery barn version of this is $1600.  I think I have $200 in this one after some craigslist lumber steals.

There will be doors added later.  I ran out of wormy Ash.  The ugly basket is temporary.  It holds all our Neilson rating equipment.  

Drawers are made of Cherry.

Sellers Cabinet Finally Done!

About 5 or 6 months ago we picked up a beat down Sellers cabinet on the cheap. Well it was cheap for a reason. One drawer front was busted in half, a door was hanging by one hinge, it was about 13 different colors and was soaked in grease. This thing was well used and some things I just couldn't salvage. I replaced a few things because they were broke, and others because they were just soaked in grease.

Here's what it looked like before:

And after....  The white top on this is porcelain so it's not something I could just paint very easy.  Yes, that green strip is ugly.  I'll figure something out...

Another before picture:

The rest are pictures I took during the rehab.  I estimate that I have about 40 hours in this project.  Most of that time was spent stripping paint.

Here is the drawer front I had to replace.

And this drawer needed everything but the front.  I salvaged the front and built a new drawer.  

Primer

Part way stripped.

This took the most time.  The roll up cabinet has about 15 separate wood pieces.  I couldn't take this apart so I had to scrape in between all of them.  This alone was probably 3 hours of work.

Done.

Small fraction of the stripped paint.

Start of paint.

Start of assembly.

The new hinges I bought had a different offset.  See the gaps on the left side.  Had to fill holes, re-sand, re-paint....

Getting there...

My spray booth took a beating with this project.

Painted cabinet

I didn't make this piece but I did a heck of a job painting it.  It was spray painted and has 2 coats of water based poly on the top.  I would have never picked this color but I gotta admit it's kinda cool.  Now we just need to fill the rest of the office.

Upgraded garage cabinet

I built a framed pegboard hanger for the garage french cleat system.  After hanging it I realized I was quickly running out of wall space.  I then noticed it looked the same size as the shelf I made.  I held them next to each other and the pegboard frame was only about 1/16 wider than the shelf, good enough for garage work.  I ended up making a shelved door for the existing shelf with the pegboard panel as the door front.