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Let this ingenious guide inspire you: Discover here how you can give an old wall cupboard a completely new look with motif papers and a little colour. The many practical details make it a real designer piece - and you are the designer.

Used colours

Colour mixture 1:
Handicraft paint Azure Blue and white
Colour mixture 2:
Handicraft paint Ivory , Ochre and Honey Yellow
Brown wipe :
Acrylic Color in Umbra bred

Here's how it works

Corpus
Prime carcass, shelf and doors white. Paint the outside of the body ivory and wipe brown with a damp Paint sponge .
Paint inside with colour mixture 1, wipe ivory and brown.
Paint the shelf with colour mixture 1, wipe ivory and glue the tip to the edge.

Left door outside
Mark a border, paint the inner surface with Board paint .
Glue Décopatch-Paper on the edges and wipe brown, stick on the tip.
Paint the letters "MEMO" first antique white, then ivory, wipe brown and glue on with effect glue.
Cut out the straw silk motif, paint the back white and glue it on with UHU Contact Kraftkleber.

Right door outside
Mark a border, paint the inside with Magnetic paint , then paint over the outside in ivory.
Glue Décopatch-Paper onto the edges and wipe brown, stick on the tip.
Drill a hole Ø 10 mm for the movement, draw a circle Ø 20 cm, brown and shade.
Print out and glue on the calendar on digital Straw silk paper , pull the edges brown. Glue straw silk motifs on aluminium sheet and white photo cardboard and cut out "windows" for month or numbers, fix a magnet. Glue straw silk motifs on, draw the edges brown.
Mount the clockwork, attach magnets to "kitchen utensils".

Tea box inside the cupboard
Prime the exterior surfaces with a mixture of crimson Handicraft paint and brown Acrylic paint, wipe brown inside and out.
Prime the backs of the decoupage motifs white and stick them on the tea box. Seal with Decoupage varnish .

Glasses
Glue check ribbon, Satin ribbon and lace around the glasses, bows from Satin ribbon and fix check ribbon with hot glue to the glasses.

Wine rack
Prime antique white, stick strips from the Décopatch-Paper on the sides, checks on the inner back wall. Glue on the tip.
Wipe over the unglued areas with a Paint sponge thinned Brown .

Chip baskets inside the cabinet
Glaze 1: Carmine Red and Brown
Glaze 2: Colour mixture 1
Glaze 3: Dark green
Glaze the chip baskets and wipe them brown after drying.
Glue on the check ribbon and lace, bows from Satin ribbon and fix the check ribbon with hot glue.

Final assembly
Screw on the wine rack.
Turn the cabinet upside down, screw in the hooks on the bottom and screw on the lids of the glasses.
Hang the cabinet, insert the shelf, mount the cabinet doors, screw on the glasses.

This idea is timelessly beautiful!