Bedside Cabinet Makeover

"Do your DIY thingie lah!", the other two from the usual-trios answered me when I asked, "Oi... very boring lah! Any plans or whatsoever to kill time kah?".

Fine then. Since I had no choice at all.

Movie outings, tea breaks, lepak around all need money. Gosh... I can't believe that I'd managed to stay away from Excapade for almost a month and had not buy anything useless on impulse. Yippee! 2 more weeks to the next pay day =D

You're doing great Nonnie! Keep it up!

Still... I can't buy anything to reward myself.
Damn sad.

Anyhooo.. back to my makeover.






Everyone, this is ....

I can't remember exactly how long ago this ugly piece of furniture started to exist in my room but I remembered initially mum placed it under my old reading table by slotting it into the space where I used to hook my legs freely on the wall while playing Barbie on it.

She used a piece of cloth along with some wire and created a "curtain" for it.

Then years later, after several times of furnitures moving... it now ended up becoming my bedside cabinet, where I stuffed in all my DVDs, books and other ojipalas along with banyak-banyak photo frames on top.

And everytime FussyKelly came over to my place and saw it, she'll "suggest",
"Why don't you get yourself a new piece from Ikea or what. It's not very expensive anyway. This one spoils the look of your room, like... cannot fit in bah."

My reply, "Can use, why waste?".

But I had always wanted to do something with it. Make it look less hideous at least. And yesterday was the day when I was truly bored and Astro was showing all re-runs.




First thing first, emptied the cabinet.
I left them all on my bed since I was going to change the sheets later.

As you can see, DVDs, CDs and all other miscellaneous ojipalas.

Then laid some old newspaper on the floor for painting purpose.

The problem was... I spent 10 minutes squatting like a frog reading all the columns in it. Not until my legs felt numb then I realized what my initial plan was. Back to work yo young lady!

Ya, I lose focus easily.
:S

So I took out the leftover white paint from my previous kitchen cabinet makeover. Opened up the lid and thought to myself... "Did I took the wrong can?"

"Wait... *check label* It is the white paint what!"

Like nescafe laaaaaaa

Is it normal? I don't think paint has expiry date. No?
Er.... nevermind already. I had already used it.


I just tried my luck by stirring it, hoping that it'll look normal after that.

Finally! The colour changed from teh-tarik to full cream milk!
All ready to paint!

My usual attire at home

Forgive me as I still don't have the courage to turn my head and pose with this baju. On a lazy Sunday like this, sometimes I don't even care to comb my hair. Headband is a must, not those kawaii type. The cute and glittery one is not "kuat" enough to hold my fringe in place. Scrunchie~ I remember reading it some where saying that its a fashion-don't, so I only use them at home.

Spider fleeing

That's at the back of the cabinet. Patut tah dusty.
*look left and right feeling guilty*

Finish painting then it's time to get some tan~

Yes you don't have to tell me. The inner parts of the cabinet was badly painted. That was because after a few strokes, I baru remembered that I only need to paint the exterior part!

So, I ching-ching-chai-chai simply hamtam paint saja.
If only I got glossy paint, sure very chun the exterior.

My hands

Can you read palms?



Took a short break and cooked myself lunch.

Best!

30 minutes later.. back to work.

Got the measurements and cut it out from a piece styrofoam.
It's just a dollar something, available in all book store and even Hua Ho.

Wrapped them up in a piece of cloth,

And 'kangaroo' them!

Fit 'em in!

There, my ching-chai-random-bedside-cabinet-makeover!

All that I did was paint it all white, and made some covers for it so that I can hide all the messiness in it.

Am still thinking if I want to make a knob for it or not...
What you think?
Just don't tell me that I should have leave it alone because it looks like crap now.
Damn sad wei... Spent so many hours then in the end people tell me, "Huh? I thought it looked better before you do anything to it."

But I am going to draw something at the side lah.
I was just too freaking tired after it and syok watching t.m.o Ah Long Pte Ltd.

I want to watch that movie lah!

. . . I know.

I should have clean up my table instead of keh-kiang (act smart) do a makeover.