Just when I thought I couldn't take it any longerhttp://jasclo.blogspot.com/ It's done. It's finally, finally done. Praise the being of your choice because I don't have to look at this cabinet in its unfinished state any longer. I was actually planning to sell it, but it looks a little too comfortable where it is. Plus I've put some of our DVDs in it. So I think it's going to stay put. Unless anyone out there wants to buy it for like $1 million. Oh, you want to see it first. Well then. Here ya go: Do I hear a million 5? Yeah, yeah. All right. I'll stop. Here's what it looked like before (sorry about the flash):

The after took lots and lots of work. I scraped off three layers of paint (black, green under that and then primer), sanded, primed and painted it (and painted and painted). David broke two panes of glass -- one when he stepped on one of the doors while he was helping me scrape paint off it. (No, I did not yell at him.) The other when he was replacing the glass after I'd painted the doors. And then there are the hinges. I couldn't find any to fit the original holes, so I had to fill the old holes and sand and paint and sand and paint, then make new holes. Admire those hinges and knobs please because they cost as much as the cabinet. Then I had the fantastic idea to use some wallpaper as shelf liner. Only that pattern? Yeah, it made it really hard because I wanted the pattern to line up on each shelf. It was while I was cutting and measuring (and cutting and measuring and cutting and measuring and cutting and measuring) that I jabbed the X-acto knife into my foot. Talk about blood, sweat and tears going into your work. So I'm rather proud of the final product. At least I think it looks like $1 million.