Lively Liv: {a little cabinet makeover}

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

{a little cabinet makeover}

In my living room, I use the IKEA Rast Dresser as my tv stand. This is for a few reasons:

1) It was $30. Um...win.
2) It has storage & is sturdy.
3) It's a DIY-ers dream. It's plain wood, so you can paint, stain, wallpaper it like no tomorrow.

While reading Apartment Therapy one day, I stumbled upon a post entitled, "The Endlessly Adaptable IKEA Rast Dresser" & I had one word: wow.

It can go from this:

To this:

How unbelievable are those transformations?!

Up until this weekend, I was coming to terms with keeping my apartment walls the way they were--white. Blah. That sounds dramatic, but you all know how much I hate white. So to add a pop of color, I decided I would try this:

How amazing? I love the chevron pattern as it is, but painting it vertically is not only unexpected, but visually stunning. I even decided on a similar shade of green during my paint chip excursion to add the color my apartment desperately needs.

But...

In a very last-minute decision, I decided to paint my walls this weekend, so this Rast project was put on hold. Not only that, but I completely scratched the green chevron idea since it would clash with the new wall color.

Even though the walls look awesome {post coming soon!} my Rast was still looking pretty plain. & since the room is still evolving, I didn't want to paint it yet. That left me with one last option. So I headed to my favorite store for some...drumroll please....

Knobs!

Who else loves Anthropologie's hardware? I've already bragged about my fabulous knobs from my bathroom at home, so you know I do. There are so many to choose from, I didn't know where to look first. I decided to go off of the colors in my curtains--purple, pink, green, & grey--to tie the room together a little more.

{please ignore the wrinkles}