I have to admit that I didn’t do a lot of work on the closet last weekend. I needed some rest to focus on the work that has to be done this week – the installation of the rest of the molded part and the disguise, the shifting of the washing machine and the dryer into the room and start of the build for the island. However, I painted the inside of the washing and dryer cabinets. This is not particularly exciting, but I decided that the interior of these cupboards had to be painted to meet the washing machine and the dryer instead of staying white.
Otherwise, each of my work was related to the wardrobe in the planning and the attempt to make decisions. And the biggest decision I am trying to do is what worktop material is supposed to use for the washing and dryer cabinets as well as on the island.
I originally intended to make wooden panels on the floor with the same red oak hardwood floors. I still had a lot of it, so I thought I would use it well. In fact, I had already cut all the pieces for the wash cabinet workplace at the beginning of this cabinet project.
I do not completely exclude this option, but now that my floors were talked about, I’m just not sure if I have wooden panels. I am so excited about how the floors have developed, but I don’t want to go overboard by repeating the same color made of wood on three different worktops in the room. There are definitely times when more better. But there are times when more is only exaggerated. I have a kind of desire to add three other surfaces in the room that have the same color as the floor in the “Overkill” category, especially since one of them is located directly in the middle of the room and is 72 inches long and 30 inches wide.
So I’m pretty sure I will do something else and I limited it to three options. I need a total of 30 square foot, so that real stone, quartz, etc. is too expensive myself at remaining prices. I don’t want to pay nearby or more than 1000 US dollars for worktops for a cabinet. I will save the beautiful things for our future new kitchen, but not for a closet.
The first option is laminate. Laminate has put a long way in recent years. There are ways to make the edges now, which some laminate worktops quite difficult to distinguish from real stone slabs … until they touch it, of course. But I thought laminate could be a perfect option for the closet because I need nothing that is really difficult in a closet, as I would do in a kitchen.
The only example that I liked was that was from Formica called Manhattan Marble. And of course it’s not cheap. I think the installation price was around 900 US dollars. I just don’t want to pay so much for cabinet worktops. For me it is crazy that the installation price for Formica is somewhat lower these days than the installation price for solid stone remains.
The next idea I had was to make concrete. I know I know! Was that done there, right? I have concrete slabs in our kitchen and have never sworn again to have concrete kitchens after they are colored so badly the first time.
But that was many years ago and after I had reworked them (what they can read here) they looked so much better. And most of the part (apart from the area in which I spilled isopropyl alcohol on it and only noticed it two days later, the finish went through) the worktops kept up remarkably and still look really good.
And I have the feeling that concrete worktops have put a long way since my first attempt. But here, too, I will not do anything in a closet that could color the worktops. I don’t bring a mustard or turmeric to my closet , so I think it is used much better than dressing dressers. I rated it for all concrete, edge shapes and other materials. The price was about 450 US dollars, including shipping. But then someone would have to help me because I can’t lift and water all this concrete alone. And unfortunately my brother would not be available to help me this time because of his job.
This leads me to an option that I really tried to try. I carried out a faux lacquer treatment on my living room couch table so that it looks like marble. I know some of us are scared when we hear (or read) these words “faux lacquer treatment”, right? It brings us back to the 80s when the stuff was the last anger.
But I think I did a pretty good job on my coffee table! And people who were actually in my home thought it was real marble …Until they touched it.
I think I could try it. It would only cost me the price for two plywood leaves to get all three worktops because I already need all other supplies. And I don’t even have to use the expensive plywood, so it would cost less than $ 100. I think I will at least try. If I don’t like it, I will at least have learned something (i.e. the faux painting on something small like a coffee table), I can share my DIY -Faux -Marmor -Warfstagen with you so that you do not have to go at the expense of trying out, and I can switch to Plan B for my worktops. I think that will be my plan A.
