Pimp Your Medicine Cabinet

After remodeling my bathroom, I needed a new medicine cabinet. I couldn't find anything I like, so I bought a second hand boring, simple medicine cabinet and gave it the same treatment that I gave my guest room wall.

I decorated it with dragons and unicorns because... well... dragons and unicorns :)

The decorations where made with my 3d printer and using stass-stones. The paint I still had from the guest room wall.

The 3d-designs where found at Thingiverse.

[see the last step on some tips how I could have done it easier]

Stuff

• Medicine Cabinet
• Stuff to decorate with, like strass-stones, tape and other designs
• Metall paint
• Black paint (or other contrasting colour)
• Black spray paint
• Primer
• Masking tape and cardboard
• Terpentine (solvant)
• Super glue

Tools

• Brush
• Cloth
• 3D-printer (if you want to make your own decors)

Costs

Well for me this was a really cheap project. I just bought the cabinet (3,50), the strass-stones (1,45) and a brush (0,90). All the other stuff where leftovers from previous projects.

So for me this project cost: 5,85 (euro)

But if I'm honest with myself, I should add some money for the 3D filament, super-glue and paint. Still I don't think this project would go far over 10,-.

To prep the cabinet:

• Clean
• Degrease with solvent
• Mask the inside so the spray paint can't get there
• Prime with primer (my cabinet was plastic so I used a special primer for that)
• Paint black

For me this was the hardest part. I found the designs I liked on Thingiverse.

This is the Unicorn I used and this the Star Trek Medic sign. I can't find the dragon anymore. I printed them on a Robo-3D printer. The letters are easily designed in 123D-design.

I used some tape to create the band in the middle.

To create the "nails" I used self adhesive strass-stones. The colour is not important. I will paint them anyway.

The 3D printed decorations are glued on with super-glue.

We added new plastic so:

• Degrease with solvent
• Prime with primer
• Spray paint black

I did put some cardboard between the door and the cabinet, because I only want to paint the door.

I brushed on 4 layers of metal paint with short random strokes, to get it all covered.

Then I brushed on the black paint and took it off immediately with a cloth with solvent. The effect is that all the decorations jump out and it all looks nicely weathered.

Put it on the wall en stock with supplies.

This was a tryout for a big door, so that will be the next adventure with metal paint!

If I would do this again, I would do some things a little different:

• I would skip the first layer of primer
  
• I would skip the first layer of black paint. So first glue on all the decoration and only than prime and paint
  
• I would use a copper colour spay paint instead of the black
  
• I would probably get away with just two layers of metal paint (I would still use the brushed on paint to get the structure)
  

So all in all I would use just five layers of paint instead of the nine layers I used now.