In this post I included in my list of French period home must haves a baguette bin. A little while ago I bought one for 10€ and it’s been sat there, ready for me to do it up. I used the easiest method to do so, in actual work time it took less than half an hour.
Here it was before…
The first thing I did was remove the panel which held the material, which was super, simple. It just consisted of putting a screw driver between the two pieces of wood and prising it away.
I also unscrewed the lid to paint separately.
Then I cleaned the wood and painted it in a white undercoat. I didn’t paint right inside the box, as it was too deep and would have been messy. I painted it enough to make sure you couldn’t see that.
When it was dry, thankfully undercoat always dries quickly, I spray painted it with this lavender colour. My colour scheme is grey, yellow and lavender like this….
I waited a half an hour, getting on with other things. I gave it a second, light coat and waited again. Each coat takes about a minute to apply and 15-30 minutes to dry. Then when it was dry I sprayed from the inside out, to make sure the bar detail was covered well.
I had this lavender toile material already and decided to use that for the covered panel. I used the old piece as a template, cutting round it and then spraying the board with aerosol fabric glue, before laying the fabric in place and smoothing it out. I attached it back to the inside of the box with my staple gun and replaced the lid.
That’s it!
The two shades, although complimentary, are a little vibrant together (and of course the background, being the old doctor’s surgery, has a lot of work to be done). However, I’m going to be surrounding it with sign writing which should tone it down. I’ll give you an update on that soon.
In the meantime God bless!
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