Cabinet Makeover Painted Black with Copper Hand Painting

Vintage wood cabinets like this are great candidates for painting and makeovers. This cabinet make-over post shows how you can take and old, inexpensive cabinet from the thrift store and completely transform it with paint. I knew a cabinet makeover painted black with copper hand painting on the drawers.

It was a yard sale find for $10 and it held all (and when I say all, I mean A LOT) of the upstairs toys. I had found these great knobs from Hobby Lobby that were shaped like a crown with a coppery color and a bit of a black wash. I knew I wanted to do something kind of cool and different. I filled and drilled new knob holes. Then, after painting the cabinet black, I designed a pattern based on one I had seen in an old book, and used copper paint to do the details.

Black painted cabinet with copper painting

The copper paint pops out against the black painting.

I have to admit though, I cheated on the diamonds, and used a stamp. It was the easiest way to line them up, and have them come out close to perfect every time. I washed over everything with black paint again, after the copper paint dried, to give it a faded, and aged look.

I wanted to move it behind my hall entry bench so I decoupaged the back with some really cool scrapbook paper with some fake writing on it so it would look good from both sides and I wasn’t stuck with having to put it up against a wall all of the time where the back wouldn’t show. You can see how I use decoupage as a furniture make-over tool here.

I love being able to combine techniques when giving a piece of furniture a new look like this cabinet makeover painted black with copper hand painting. Paint can really transform an old dresser or hutch too!

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