My Piet Hein Eek cupboard - the result 101karakters #5

Let me show you my cupboard. Inspired by this moodboard I made: Perfect Imperfection (you can see it here). 

This upcoming Saturday my cupboard and I are invited to the workspace of Piet Hein Eek in Eindhoven, where I will enjoy a guided tour and lunch and where the winners are going to paint their cupboard with help of the Histor paint specialists. Of course I will tell you all about it!

You can find the program of this day here. I'm so looking forward to this day and I would love to see all other creative ideas coming to reality and meet the people I know via blogs, Instagram and Pinterest. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cross - Quip & Co, Ball - Hay, Zoo Magazine, felt basket - Hema, lamp - thrift find, chair - thrift find

My 'Perfect Imperfection' cupboard - the making of

 

Step 1 I have sanded it first completely

Step 2 Then dusted

Step 3 Degreased with ammonia

Step 4 Cleaned with water

Step 5 Now the primer on it. I used white primer except for the top of the cupboard ( inside ) and the bottom inside. For this I used the gray primer. I have not taped it, but you can of course if you don't have a steady hand. I also haven 't painted all edges of plywood and the tough nuts and bolts, because I think these are just beautiful details! All corners and edges I have done with a small brush and the rest with a paint roller

Step 6 Repeat steps 1 , 2 , 3 and 4
Step 7 Now comes the fun part : the finish ! I started by using the Histor perfect finish satin white on all parts that are painted with the white primer. When the paint was dry, I flipped the cupboard and painted the inside top black. The inside of the bottom I painted with beautiful gray paint MUS

Step 8 Again light sanding and dust

Step 9 A second layer on it ( repeat step 7 ). This was especially necessary for the dark paint

Step 10 How I made the dripping effect? It is so nice to work with acrylic paint : I used the acrylic-based primer of Histor. Advantages : you don't have a huge paint smell in the house, it dries quickly and it's so easy to get of your hands afterwards. I can highly recommend it! To get the dripping effect I diluted the black satin paint with quite some water. If you put enough paint on your brush, you will get drips easily. In doubt, you can test it before on a piece of rest wood

Step 11 The text 'I feel peace in the rain' I made with 'typewriter' alphabet stamps. Put just a little bit of paint on the stamp and stamp it!

Step 12 Finally I added a tough industrial detail, these are the two brass solder wire fittings as handles: for sale at a hardware store

 

& Finished!

 

Thanks for all your sweet words!

Important links to read more about it:

• Piet Hein Eek
• 101 karakters competition
• Histor Perfect Finish
• 101woonideeen
• inspiration video