I've regretted buying this cabinet since the drive home from IKEA 5 years ago. At the time we needed a place to put all if our 'nice/party' dishes. While this fits the bill, I just wish I would have spent a week on Craigslist and found an old, cool teak sideboard. Alas, I did not.Marc wanted to move this buffet from its original spot across the dining room to under the window. This would allow the table to be centered in the room, and would make walking around the room easier. So we emptied it out and move it:
(Sorry for the crappy photo.) We immediately noticed two things:
1) It was too tall. That I'm ok with because I've always hated those metal legs because they make the cabinet look like a flamingo.
2) Our floor is crazy sloping at that window. The back legs weren't even really touching the floor.
After telling Marc a million times I was afraid this thing was going to kill Franca, we leveled it with felt pads and I reloaded it up putting all the heavy at the back on the bottom. I felt better, but told him if it did fall over, I was hereby absolving myself of any guilt.
I just couldn't stand to look at it all off balance and death-trappy, so I stalked all sorts of new legs online until my eyes bled. $8 each plus shipping?? That's $50 for a cabinet I don't even like anymore!
Ace hardware to the rescue: bam! $2.39 each! Plus 10% off and no shipping!
I don't dig the brass, but luckily, Marc already had black spray paint and at the advice of my metalworker dad, self-etching primer for another project:
I taped off the wood parts and primed the metal twice. Then, Marc, being the good husband he is, made me a jig for the spray painting. It's just a board with 6 holes drilled, but really helped!
I'll do the "AFTER" in the next post.
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