We recently bought our first home! After living in apartments for 15+ years, I am very excited to no longer have noisy neighbors and cramped, boring living spaces. I have a couple of projects on my list to spruce up some of the furniture we already own, including repainting this hutch.
When my grandmother passed away during my college years, I got some of her furniture: dressers, a cedar chest and this hutch. It took me a while to come to the decision it was ok to paint the pieces she left me – there’s a sense of guilt over changing something that sat in a loved one’s house for years, but I decided she wouldn’t care and it’s still the same piece of furniture, but with a new look.
The hutch was the last piece that I hadn’t painted, but I’ve been itching to do something to it for over a year now. I got on Pinterest for some inspiration, going for something like this:
I decided on Behr Caribbean Current in a flat finish, picking up a quart from Home Depot. Then it was time to get started!
The glass on the doors to the hutch don’t easily come off, so I taped around them with painters tape to protect them from getting any excess paint on them while painting the rest of the top part of the piece.
I also took all the hardware off for the painting process but left the hinges to the cabinet doors, mostly because they were stubborn and I was having problems getting them off anyway.
I replaced the old knobs with these gorgeous drawer pulls I got at Anthropologie (they don’t have the exact design online anymore, but these are similar) at the beginning of the year when they were buy one get one half off!
The other hardware came from Home Depot and didn’t quite fit the pre-made holes, so I had to use a wood filler to plug the old holes up so it would look right.
Painting took a couple days – I did the top part first and painted two coats, then did the bottom part, also giving it two coats.
Then the new hardware was installed and we moved it back against the wall and voila!
