Before & After: Pie Safe Makeover

Here is the makeover of a recent estate sale purchase...


It might be more appropriate to call this a "China Hutch Makeover" or a cabinet makeover of some sort... I'm not really what this piece of furniture started out as. A cabinet with legs. It did have glass in the doors, along with some wood decoration behind the glass, but my overzealous husband took those out before I could take the before photo.

I replaced the glass with a wire mesh after deciding chicken wire wouldn't be sturdy enough, so it definitely ended up more "pie safe" then "china hutch", so that's what we're calling it! The mesh also matches my food pantry.

What do you think? The interior is some kinda off-white discount paint from the "oops paint section. If you recognize the outside, turquoise color, that's because it's my Behr Mint Majesty leftover from the dining chairs... kind of. I had to add some more oops paint, this time in a blue, in order to stretch it to have enough for another project. Plus, since this turquoise china hutch is in my kitchen, I didn't want it all match-matchy with my dining chairs.

I found a birdcalling book at the thriftstore, but the bird call mechanism was broken while the illustrations were awesome. So, I totes "Put a Bird On In It", lining the drawer with the bird pictures.

I'm usually not for painting over wood (unless it's 80s yellow/orange,  or 70s speckled brown), but this wood was all discolored, chipping, warped, and all around in bad shape. So much so that I got this for just $20 (and a second one for the same price) at an estate sale.

The cabinet was $20 and the paint I had on hand. The only thing I bought new was the hardware (from OSH) and the wire, which also came from OSH and ended up a much better deal than the ol' Orange Big Box, because they let you buy it buy the foot at Orchard.