Today I’m sharing the makeover of that wooden medicine cabinet that my friend opK found for me at a garage sale.

After giving it a thorough cleaning out in the yard using some Dawn dish soap and the garden hose, I scuff sanded it.  Then I painted over just the hinges with some of Dixie Belle’s B.O.S.S.  The hinges were a bit rusty, and the B.O.S.S. will help keep that rust from coming back through new paint.

Next I painted it inside and out with Dixie Belle’s Sawmill Gravy.  Once that was dry, I added part of the Maison de Paris maxi transfer from re.design with prima.  This transfer includes two 12″ x 12″ sheets with coordinating designs on them.  I used one full 12″ x 12″ design on the front of the cabinet …

Isn’t that pretty?  The entire transfer is a charcoal grey except for the pop of purple in the lavender sprigs coming out of the urns.

It’s a super subtle detail, but oh so pretty.

I used half of the other 12″ x 12″ transfer sheet on the inside of the cabinet.

The color is a bit more obvious in that one.

I did debate painting the inside of the cabinet in a lavender color, but ultimately decided that purple can be a bit polarizing.  People either love it, or they hate it.  So I felt like the cabinet would be more marketable with a more neutral color choice with only the merest hints of purple.

I also only gave the inside back of the cabinet one coat of Sawmill Gravy, and then sanded over the rough wood to distress it.  I wanted to retain a little bit of that rustic barnwood-like feel.

I felt like the front of the cabinet needed just a little something more at the bottom of the door to balance out the transfer up above, so I added a little bit of wording from the old Memoir transfer from re.design with prima.

One of my readers, Monica, sent me two boxes full of transfers a while ago.  She’s packing up for a move to Florida (hmmm, lucky her!) and thus cleaning out her stash.  It was so nice of her to share her cast offs with me.  This Memoir transfer was one of the many that she sent (thanks again Monica!).

It worked well here because it’s in the old dark grey color that all of those original prima transfers came in, which paired nicely with the newer Maxi transfer.

The final step in this makeover was to add a coat of clear wax over everything, inside and out.

I’m pretty sure that it goes without saying that the new look is a bit of improvement over the old.

What do you think?

This cabinet is for sale locally, check out my ‘available for local sale’ page for more details.

As always, thank you to Dixie Belle Paint Co for providing the B.O.S.S. and paint used for this project.