Picture frame cabinet

19 years ago

Made this cabinet from a picture frame I picked up at a yard sale and 3/8" plywood. I collect mini teapots, so I needed some place to display them.

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gw:craftylady-2006
19 years ago
Very nice Frances. Love those teapots. Please tell us, are those "recipie" pages you used for wallpaper? Looks really neat.

Sal
frances_ar
Original Author
19 years ago
Sal, that's exactly what my 'wallpaper' is. I tore up a cookbook, used wallpaper glue, and then tea stained it when it was dry. My nephew told me I could fix a meal that's literally 'off the wall' now. LOL I used a seafood and a cookie book, not a great combo but no one really stops to read the wall. lol
My living room 'wallpaper' is torn and crumpled grocery sacks, (the brown paper type). My Dad thought I was completely crazy when I told him what I was going to do, but after I got it up, he loved it and had to send everyone he knew to come to my house to see it. I did that 12 years ago, and then did my hallway and now there are probably 10 people that have copied that.
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wichitarick
19 years ago
hi
love it .and the wallpaper
wife used to collect the tea pots also I had a lot fun finding them.
I got the frame idea from a frame like that I found in a salvation army dumpster true trash then I cleaned it and wiped a dark brown stain on it and it has hung in the living room for yrs.
I have actually cut all the pcs to make more of these but I found 2 more at a g.s so they are sitting in the shop.
love the wallpaper "off the wall" lol. have thought of doing just that on my kitchen cieling because of cracks and I collect cookbooks and old womens mags about cooking would look interesting.
geez I get to butt in here big time .have also done the paper trick but left it in a rental house ,all of the pcs. were cut out in a leaf pattern then pasted and painted whew.
I would like to do this now with pcs. that are rectangle for brick shapes to faux a brick wall??
I never finished my kitchen but also always thought it would be a good idea to put the most used recipes like
biscuits, and cookies,fruit bread, things like that weights and measures etc. on the inside of a cabinet door then poly over it. got a million of them for a kitchen .thanks for the pics Rick
frances_ar
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19 years ago
Thanks, Rick. I like your ideas too, never thought about doing the ceiling, so now I'll have to think about that. I also like the cabinet door idea. I have potholder racks and a paper plate holder (I made it from hardware cloth and wire) mounted on the outside of the cabinets.

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