When we were designing The Little Barn, we always knew that one of the most important rooms would be the mudroom. The reason for its significance was the fact that it had to serve various roles, from an office space, to a boot room, to a greenhouse, to a laundry room, to a dog room. While we ended up removing two of those five functions, the three most important (laundry, boots, and dogs) stayed. Because this mudroom would serve as a bedroom, dining room, kitchen, laundry room, porch, and apothecary for our own animals, I wanted to make sure that it was well-equipped with everything that they could ever need and I could ever want for them.
Holly has quite a few medical issues, all of which I have chronicled over the last year. This results in her having a number of medications. Rather than keeping her medicine with ours, I wanted to make her a whimsical storage unit. It was also my way of putting a positive spin on her medical issues. Plus, it looks damn delightful in their mudroom.
This is what you’ll need to make your own hand-painted Cross Medicine Cabinet:
Glass cabinet
Glass paint
Brushes
Q-tip
Painter’s tape
Measuring tape
Steps:
1. Lay the medicine cabinet flat on the ground. Using the measuring and painter’s tape, measure and mark off a symmetrical cross that will be located in the centre of the cabinet.
2. Take the base paint colour and brush. Fill in the cross.
3. Once the base coat is dry, take the border colour and outline the cross. I did mine using a freehand method, but you can also use the painter’s tape for cleaner lines.
4. Once that coat is dry, it is ready to be installed and used!
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Emory
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shrapnelchic
/ 04/09/2015Very cute!
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Tiffany Kaya
/ 04/09/2015I now feel like I also need a cross medicine cabinet! I can imagine being really spooked by that spider hook haha!
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Hello, Scarlett Blog
/ 04/09/2015Hahahaha! It’s for the dog leashes …
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thecreativefoxden
/ 04/08/2015Very nice!!
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Hello, Scarlett Blog
/ 04/09/2015Thank you!
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sonamnaiducreative
/ 04/08/2015Love it! Simplicity at its finest.
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Hello, Scarlett Blog
/ 04/09/2015Thanks so much!!
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nightowlbc
/ 04/08/2015I love it and it looks even better on the wall!
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/ 04/09/2015Thanks, Mamacita. I’m glad you came out to see The Little Barn!
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Chris
/ 04/08/2015I love the shape of the cabinet you used.
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Hello, Scarlett Blog
/ 04/09/2015Thanks, Chris. We initially bought it for our new bathroom, but at the last minute, I found the coolest iron and rope mirror that matched our iron 6 barrel gun wall toilet paper holder (that was a mouthful). It was then when I decided to use it in the dog room, and the idea to paint it came to me!
The moments that you do not plan for usually turn out to be the best surprises.
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