Easy ideas for brightening cupboard or drawer doors
It's been several years now that you have the same drawers and cupboards and they are no longer up to date? Or do you just want to wake up a bit of their traditional and standardized side? Before you rush to a furniture seller to buy new ones, have you thought about customizing them yourself? It is sometimes enough to change the handles or to paint some elements to give a second youth or a different look to your cupboards. Here are some ideas to draw!
Dress up the drawer or cabinet handles
In two steps, three movements and for a small fee, you can offer a new look to your closet doors and drawers. There is an impressive variety of door knobs and handles in the shops, you just have to imagine the look you want to give to your furniture! For example, why not opt for models in the form of small pink knots with black dots for girls' rooms? You will bring a girly touch to a dresser.
Here are some ideas for making a cabinet yourself. Let's start with the plastic animals of children. Make a selection: a rhinoceros, an elephant, etc. Then paint with the bomb, why not in gold color. Original, is not it? If you are not too bestiary, choose handles to make Fimo paste to cook. It has the property of becoming very hard after baking, and it is in the form of sticks of bright colors, with which you can for example create handles in the shape of candy. Always in the hand, did you think to cover your doors with dressers of wool pompoms of different colors? They will give a touch of furniture in a jiffy!
Even easier, diverted objects. The cork buttons are the most beautiful effect on a white dresser. Pieces of rope elegantly knotted as handles work very well and bring a natural touch to the furniture. You can replace the rope with more noble materials such as leather thongs , the same as on the leashes of animals. Take the collar where you put your hand in, then attach them to the drawer or closet door. For even more originality, divert pieces of meters ribbons .
To make custom designs, you can also turn screws and nuts into a socket. Screw them on the furniture and voila! In the same way, create a more feminine handle by threading beads over a thick thread.
Customize the cupboard
The easiest way to brighten closet doors is obviously to repaint them, directly on the furniture, or on thin plywood plates that you will fix on them. The only limit will be your creativity.
Then you can turn to stickers : a bamboo, for example, running along the drawers over the entire height of the furniture. There is also the masking tape , an ingenious rice paper finer than the stickers, of which there is an impressive variety. The advantage of the sticker or masking tape is that they are removed very easily and are repositionable at will . When you're tired of your decorations, just remove them and replace them with others.
In the kitchen, opt for cork plates , on which you can pinch your shopping lists or family photos. The slate painting is also the best effect in this piece, it gives a contemporary touch to the decoration while being very practical, you are able to write on it!
In the living room, you can cover some cupboards with glossy Plexiglasplates in different colors. In no time, they will have a new look! If you are looking for a material with a nobler rendering, turn to leather plates to stick on the closet doors. Finally, customize the closets rooms with mirrors . Useful and decorative, they will enlarge the room.