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I was holding the panel with one hand, the nail gun with the other, and my foot was wedged between the garage door and the front of the cabinet door for leverage against the glue gun pushing against the back side of the door. Again trying to work with two hands and one foot. I applied a second coat of paint and then nailed the wood inserts to the cabinet doors. This is how the entertainment center looked after one coat of paint. Someone emailed me with that question so just thought I would mention it here. I use a good quality paint brush instead of a roller to paint furniture. Everything in between is okay too but those are my favorite sheens right now. I love flat finishes….or glossy finishes. The color is a nice off-white and it’s a flat paint and primer all in one. I found the paint a month or so ago at Home Depot and the price was $2.10 for the quart. I decided a can of oops paint for the makeover. I removed the drawer pulls and the cabinet door knobs and got ready to paint. It’s easier to paint the insert before nailing it to the door and that’s just what I did. We removed the plastic insert that kind of looked like frosted glass and the JTS cut replacement pieces for the doors.
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You might have noticed in the earlier photo that there was one cabinet door with the original plastic insert and one cabinet door with no backing. I have a special way to distress fake wood furniture and it's easier than real distressing. Not only is it impossible to distress fake wood furniture but it makes the furniture soooo heavy! But no worries about the distressing. Most of the piece is made of MDF or what I like to call fake wood. The top also had chipped veneer on the edges and deep gouges all the way across the top. When working on furniture don’t forget to turn it up on it’s back so you can get all the spider eggs and cobwebs from the bottom of the piece. I took the shop vac to it first then cleaned it all over with Simple Green. I was also in that narrow drawer opening with hardly any room to navigate. I didn’t get any photos of me nailing the pieces into place because I had a hard enough time holding the trim in place with one hand and the nail gun with the other. I cut the skinny trim pieces the right length the used my handy dandy Ryobi brad nailer to nail them in just the right place below the divider soon to be shelf. I went to our wood stash and found the perfect support pieces for the divider. The divider was attached firmly to the back of the entertainment center but each side needed a little reinforcement. In order to be sure the divider between the drawers was strong enough to handle a cable box I first removed the center runner on the top of the divider. I’ve told you before that I’m a lazy DIY’er and I haven’t changed. It took a bit of work to get that shelf the way I wanted it without going all out which would have been way too much work for me. One of those large TV’s can sit on the top and the Roku, cable box, whatever, can sit on the shelf where there was a drawer at one time. I’m not sure if it was a dresser, dining room piece or what but now it’s an entertainment center. Here you can see what a mess the pieces was in.
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Remember, I told you there was a big difference in the before and after. I painted the furniture with a can of oops paint then faux distressed the edges and details with a layering block. Today is also the Furniture Fixer Upper Tour so you know you’re in for a treat. I’ll share all the nitty gritty details with you. Between the JTS and I we totally updated and re-created the sideboard now turned entertainment center. I think all of the furniture pieces together were less than $40. Ya’ll, this is a beauty and to see the before and after….wow, what a difference! This large piece was an auction buy along with a few other large pieces all in bad condition. You can paint and distress fake wood furniture (also known as MDF) and here's how you do it!