DIY $20 Kitchen Cabinets
At The Cupid Colonial, our kitchen is pretty small. It’s about half the size of our previous kitchen, and there is no pantry in the house. Like many old homes, there just isn’t much built-in storage here.
But I love storage. I love staying organized, and find built-in storage spaces so helpful in that.
When we bought the house, the biggest wall in the kitchen was open shelves. Open shelves can be so beautiful. In the first home that we owned, I actually took down the upper cabinets to put up oven shelving. But here in this house, I need to be more mindful of functionality.
I always knew I wanted to replace the open shelves with closed cabinets, but I’m on a budget. And having custom cabinets built to fit that space was out of my budget! So I spent six months searching through thrift stores to try and find a solution. I had a good idea of what I wanted it to look like, but it was not easy finding something that fit in the space.
And then, I came across this $20 old broken office hutch top on The Marketplace. And the dimensions were as perfect as they could be! So I picked it up that evening.
Honestly, once I got it home, I almost didn’t do this project. All I could see was some ugly office hutch top from the 90s and stopped being able to imagine it looking like it belonged in the house.
But for whatever reason, I went for it just for giggles.
First, I took off the fronts and took out the glass. Then I repaired broken wood and lightly sanded everything. To paint it, I used Valspar Cabinet and Furniture Paint Enamel. This is the paint that I use for most of my cabinet and furniture projects, so I highly recommend it!
ignore how messy this can is, it’s obviously seen some stuff.
Paint Color:
Muted Sage by Behr.
This is one of my favorite interior greens. It’s an earthy, muted shade of grey-ish green, so it is a versatile color that has a calming vibe.
To complete the kitchen cabinets, I anchored the uppers to the wall with support brackets. This is very important. Please make sure you’re always attaching furniture to your walls. You could save a life.
I’m so glad I went ahead and finished the project because I absolutely love how it turned out. I feel like it looks like a statement piece now! More importantly, it’s functional and adds so much more storage than we had before, and it kept a piece of furniture out of the landfill.
