Cabinet Door Wall Hanging

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What to do with an old, dinged-up kitchen cabinet door? Annie Sloan to the rescue!

This sweet wall hanging is in our guest bathroom.  I think I’ll add a few more flowers to it to fill it out (silk flowers right now, but you could always put a bit of water and fresh ones in there too!)To start, I gave it a coat of Annie Sloan Chalk Paint in Old White.  The beauty of AS Chalk Paint is that it goes over most anything, and you can give it a full-coverage or a distressed finish.  I’m going for distressed here, so I gave it just one coat with an inexpensive brush, starting in the crevices.  I wanted the cabinet covered, but still wanted to see the brush strokes, so one coat is perfect.Next comes the AS dark wax. I love this stuff, and a little goes a long way. Because I wanted a distressed look, I did not put the clear wax on first, just went straight for the dark.  I wanted to highlight the crevices, so I used a Q-tip to get in there first.  Just swab it on, then wipe off or rub in if need be. I love distressing because it’s all about imperfection–much easier to manage than perfection, I say! I just kept using the Q-tips until the crevices were done. With the crevices done, I added some dark wax to the edges. Next comes a dark wax treatment for the borders and the center panel.  I’ve done dark wax many ways, but because this was a small piece, and I wanted it to have that dinged-up, distressed look, I just used a small piece of paper towel, and lightly swabbed on some dark wax in random places.  Then I used another piece of paper towel to smear and rub it in.  The dark wax sets fairly quickly, so the key is to have the clean paper towel for smearing at the ready. Here you can see the finished dark wax treatment.  It’s looking perfect, so on to the AS clear wax which will seal it. Because this piece is a wall hanging, I probably could have left off the clear wax, but I think it adds a nice sheen too. Since it was such a small piece, I decided to keep using the paper towel–less use of brushes means less clean up for just this small piece! (I do usually use this brush though, especially if I’m doing a larger piece, it really makes the job easy and uses less wax). I just swabbed out a little from the tin and rubbed it on, making sure the dark wax had set for a few hours first. Here she is after the clear wax, you can’t see much of a difference, but it does darken it a little as well. Next comes the hardware.  This stainless steel pipe clamp (adjustable) is available at Amazon here.  Since the diameter of my jar was about 3 inches, I made sure to get a pipe clamp that would fit.  You can get the right size for your jar (mine was a wide-mouth canning jar available here). 

I used this picture hanger (from my picture hanger kit), figured out where I wanted the jar to be placed, and hammered it in to the cabinet.  Then I mounted the jar with the collar (I had to loosen the collar a bit to get it into the picture hanger, then tighten it again carefully–you don’t want to crack the jar by mistake). I squeezed the picture hanger mechanism to make it more secure. It could definitely come out with a good bump or rattle, so I made sure to hang it where it would not be jiggled!Next, the fun part: flowers!  I got mine on sale at Hobby Lobby, but they look a little sparse to me (goes great in my lavender and turquoise bathroom tho!) I’m thinking about this wildflower bouquet when I want to change it up, or maybe this pretty cherry blossom bouquet or maybe these awesome yellow orchids!  Any would work! Hope you enjoyed this project.