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June 25th, 2009
before & after: lucie’s cabinet + heather’s living room

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lucie summers has shared colorful before & afters with us before, and today she’s back with a new makeover. lucie found this 1950s cabinet on ebay for about $10- it was worn out from sitting in a garage for years so she decided to take the doors off, sand the whole piece down and apply wallpaper to the back panels and a new coat of paint to the exterior. so lovely! click here to see more images. thanks, lucie!

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next up is photographer heather espaƱa, who recently finished making over her home…just in time to move in two weeks! isn’t that always the way. i love her orange living room makeover, but you can see more of her home changes right here. thanks, heather!

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12 comments
erin said:
June 25th, 2009 - 10:06 am

what transformations! i especially love the cabinet!

Green Key said:
June 25th, 2009 - 10:10 am

Wonderful improvement! I love this orange wall color. Can you tell me what brand and color it is?

June 25th, 2009 - 10:19 am

Green Key: Thanks! :) Sadly, this color will be hard to duplicate. They didn’t have the paint chip I needed, so this color was custom-mixed and it took about four tries! Crazyness. The brand though is ACE Royal Touch in semi-gloss.

Marisa said:
June 25th, 2009 - 11:02 am

I’m a sucker for that orange as well. Both transformations are lovely. Nicely done!

Amanda said:
June 25th, 2009 - 1:52 pm

I love the living room! I’m working on a project and decided to do orange/black, but was hesitant because I thought it would be too Halloween-y. My project turned out well, but yours came out even better!!

jackie said:
June 25th, 2009 - 2:01 pm

love the shelving on the wall heather added & the print of wallpaper for the cabinet lucie used

Simone said:
June 25th, 2009 - 2:33 pm

I love the wallpaper in the cabinet! Where can I find it?

lusummers said:
June 25th, 2009 - 3:24 pm

simone – the wallpaper is from ‘homebase’ in the uk – it’s sadly not available anymore in this colourway (or if it is, my 2 local branches certainly don’t have any left and neither does the website) which is soooo annoying as i’d wallpaper my entire house in it, including the exterior if i could ;)

amy said:
June 26th, 2009 - 11:04 am

nice! the colors are great, i would suggest painting the shelf brackets to finish it up and really make the floating bookshelved pop.

June 26th, 2009 - 12:09 pm

Amy – that’s exactly what I said when we put them up! :-) Lol. We decided to leave them white because we’re renters, and I knew we’d be moving again and taking the shelving with us. The white will work perfectly in our new place, so I’m relieved I didn’t paint them. But you’re absolutely right :).

cindy said:
June 26th, 2009 - 2:05 pm

check out benjamin moore’s orange burst for a similar orange. we used it in my son’s bedroom.

Amy F. said:
June 26th, 2009 - 3:28 pm

I love! the way you did things. I live in Portland, OR as well and I am looking for ideas for when we move to New Mexico in the next month. Portland has some far-out way cool stuff. Excellent redo!

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