Portuguese Kitsch-en Transformed
For any of you that have met the boss, you will know that if we buy a house that has a “perfectly functionable” kitchen then it’s days are more numbered than Caroline Flack’s ITV contract.
There were numerous references to a sticky back plastic thing that would revolutionise kitchen cabinet upcycling – I may have paraphrased but basically ideas were thrown at me that got about as much interest as a referendum on Scottish Independence.
Lo and behold there was talk of how we were going to fit this D-C-Fix in the suitcase without it bending and much nodding on my part. I thought they were the company that had made the polystyrene model aircraft that I hung from the ceiling when I was a kid so was pretty sure they would fit unless they had started doing life-size versions. Imagine my complete apathy when we unpacked something that looked like a roll of wall-paper…
So apparently this D-C-Fix stuff (there are alternatives – I would think…) was a way to “quickly zhush up” the kitchen cabinets into a high-gloss fancy looking finish without having to buy new ones. And here we are, a mere 103 days later and they are done. It may seem like a bit of a chore taking about an hour to complete each door but when it works out at about £1.50 a door instead of £50 a pop from a hardware store it becomes infinitely more attractive. And the shouts of “rub it faster” when applying the coating always managed to add some appeal to the task………………. (That’ll get me a dead arm.)
Combining the fresher, lighter look that the room certainly needed with another easy upcycling idea of tile decals then the boss’s vision has worked an absolute treat, hopefully you agree by checking out the pics below that show it’s progress over time. (Not real time as Santa will be back on his January gym membership regime by then.)
