Thanks for the compliments everyone.
This thing is in the home stretch. My knobs finally came in the other day. Even with the internet, it was hard finding a set that would fit this nicely and didn't require me to order them in bulk.
Once the knobs were fitted, I tried to figure out what I could do with the right door so it wasn't just wasted space. I decided to make a picture frame that could hold a 2"x2" photo. You can see where I notched out the frame borders in order to allow the easy changing of pictures.
Here you can see the fixed frame on the door. Once that was complete, I began the tear down and started prepping the surface for some color.
Everything started okay, and I really liked the color initially. I purposefully didn't shake the stain can because I wanted more clear than color (I didn't want a dark stain). As you can see to the left of my table, I spilled a good portion of the can. This ended up shaking up its contents.
This is how the color turned out. I absolutely hated it. I knew staining on pine was a bitch, but I thought I'd try it anyway. After looking at this poor excuse of a final product, I had the thing in pieces again.
I decided to remove most of the stain. I wanted to leave some of it for an effect I plan on incorporating later. I primed the surface and started hitting it with a matte-wine finish.
This is my super high tech painting setup.
The final coats are drying as I type this. I also took a bunch of scrap pine and painted it with the same number of primer/final color coats. I plan on using those as my practice pieces. I've never actually tried the technique, but I've seen it on shows like This Old House and Rough Cut with Tommy Mack. I'm going to take rather rough sandpaper and purposefully scuff certain edges with it. What it ends up doing is making the piece look old and worn. I know that might sound counter productive, but when done properly, it's one hell of an effect.
Something subtle, like this.
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