Last week I shared the before photos and game plan for turning this closet into a kitchenette. It was such a simple project that could be done a week! I love turning closest into something other than a closet! In our old house, the closet in our nursery was turned into a changing station. With kids especially you don’t have a ton of needs for hanging clothes. Especially for boys. I’m all about shelves and drawers instead. For this project, my studio space already had a pretty large walk-in closet that Jon installed wrap around shelves in. This additional closet was calling for a makeover and I was happy to oblige!

Closet Turned Kitchenette Reveal

the before

the after

Bravo!!!! It is such a transformation and I fell in love with it immediately. Now let’s break it down. We purchased unfinished kitchen base cabinets and got to work finishing them up with some paint.

The cabinets come built, but it’s best to remove the doors when painting. It just gives you a much nicer finish and helps prevent paint drips. We did one coat of paint and realized that the texture and coloring of the real wood was showing through the paint. Now we could have just painted an additional coat and called it a day, but I wanted a high gloss finish without any of that texture. What was a girl to do?

After 1st coat of paint:

The secret trick for getting an even surface for painting unfinished cabinets: Spackle! You need to apply a light layer of spackle to almost skim coat your cabinets and then do a light sand before applying your next layer of paint.

Look at that shine!

Once everything was dry we were able to put the doors back on. We still needed to paint the footboard and then add a small piece of trim above the mini-fridge. We went to IKEA and picked up a marble effect laminate countertop. It was inexpensive and gave me the look I wanted. Just a couple screws from the bottom and you are in business!

Close up of laminate:

Next up was the most exciting part for me! The wallpaper!!!!!! Ah!!!!! Scream with it! It’s intense, happy, pretty, etc! It has it all! Is it a little extra? Yes! But I’m a more is more kinda girl!

We added a lucite shelf with brass ends to the wall. This was a simple DIY project. I ordered 1″ thick acrylic/lucite in the length we needed. Make sure to get the edges polished so it’s nice and clear. Then for the brackets, I picked these up from Ikea and sprayed them warm gold/brass.

That is how we got here! After we finished it I felt like it needed a bit of lighting so Jon helped me make something come together without having to get any new ceiling electrical boxes. Stay tuned for that post. It has way too many photo/instructions to add to this post. 

The kitchenette is set up with a mini-fridge, microwave, keurig, and snacks! It also has some fun serving trays like this easy DIY Take One marble tray. I added a rolling
kitchen island for more countertop. I have used it for client presentations, a work space for craft videos and lunch!

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