Making a Silk Purse Out of a Sow’s Ear: Being Green Saves Green and Helps Everyone
Using half-inch thick hardwood plywood and stiles made from pallet wood, sealed cabinet takes shape.
Grandma just couldn’t see the old family TV being hauled away. This past Christmas, she asked if I could make it into a storage cabinet for her quilts and also to hold a small TV on top, so she can watch it while in bed.
Using small pieces of hardwood plywood and Red Oak from pallet wood became new parts for the cabinet.
Original Cabinet Top had issues caused by silicone tainted wax and made impossible to finish, especially in the area where the heat was that came from the old “TV lamp”. Both caused the satin polyurethane finish to ‘Fish-eye’. I scuff-sanded the old top, and with contact cement I added a new layer of ¼” Oak plywood onto the top and trimed it with routered-made Oak trim.
New cabinet hardware with Inlaid Porcelain added an updated style to the Lower Drawer Fronts and New Doors.
The Turned and Carved Finial is Re-Sawn in Half.
Each Half was Overlaid on the Doors’ raised panels.
Having a floating center stile on the doors automatically removes any barrier and allows for easy storage of thick and wide handmade heirloom blankets and quilts.
Repurposing the old TV, and all those small and leftover materials, reduces material cost and makes a useful and interesting storage cabinet that is good for the earth, the home, and the heart.
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Using half-inch thick hardwood plywood and stiles made from pallet wood, sealed cabinet takes shape.
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Hardwood doors and new interior lining are stained with Red Oak oil based stain and sealed with spray poly.
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Raised panel doors have split turnings and a floating center stile. When doors are opened, Grandma's soft thick quilts can be placed inside as floating stile does not block the opening.
Cost to complete the project was $55.00, making an 85 year old grandmother very happy.
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Stained with Minwax “Red Oak” oil based stain and 4 Coats of Polyurethane form a warm, smooth and deep luster.
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Building Green saves Green and recycles a family's 1989 color televison.
Comments
Nice job! And the cost was well worth it. Made Grandma happy!
I have one of these cabinets and can't throw it out, Thes are good idea's.
Nice work and now I'm motivated.
A worthy project for many reasons, especially for Grandma's benefit.
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