i picked up this i picked up this thing from the thrift store
it's very um floral also it's in perfect condition
well except for all the dirt and germs going on but that's to be expected it was actually
in even better condition but for whatever reason sniffledorf keeps trying to chew hey
he's already chewed up the sides a bit you can see some of his little nibble marks there
or maybe not so i try to keep it hidden from him it's made of nice
sturdy wood now that's quality but the best part about this box is that it sings
it's a music box i love it there's lots of storage space there's two drawers on the bottom
never mind that's just one can i fit into this
oh my god
i knew he could open drawers he's so smart
silencio and there's these fancy double french doors bonjour madame actually they
don't have glass on them they're just plain old american doors they've got a nice snap to them oh
and inside there's a lot more storage i did a modern spooky thrift store makeover last month
and you guys really seemed to like it so i've decided to give this little music box a modern
spooky makeover as well alright so here we are there's not a lot of surface area to paint on
so i'll have to work with that it almost looks like a miniature armoire and i kinda
like that fancy smancy first thing i'm gonna have to do is try to clean off years of mold
just trying to kill all of these dust mites with some acetone my time has
come the acetone also managed to help rub off some of that lovely floral disaster
it almost looks like someone painted this before me grew out of the roses phase and decided to
discard it at the goodwill not gonna lie i've discarded a few projects there myself the vines
came off pretty easily the flowers themselves though were being a little stubborn especially
the little red polka dot centers they're refusing to be evicted but you know the dark side doesn't
take no for an answer get on out of here oh look some mold i then proceeded to pull out the drawers
all of them except for the last one because i wasn't in the mood for horror music right now
i released the remaining dust mites that were trapped in there be free little ones go forth and
multiply sadly the shelves aren't removable slight obstacle but i'll work around them i
did eventually have to remove the bottom drawer and be serenaded let's all be serenaded together
so beautiful thank you for this moment the inside of the drawers are all lined with this wonderful
aquamarine velvetine i don't mind it especially because i really don't want to gut it
and have to reupholster everything that's a little above my pay grade
honestly it's not in bad shape we're keeping it the aquamarine velveteen is here to stay
whether i like it or not but something that cannot stay are these floral doorknobs they're just
little pegs so you can pull them out pretty easily just kidding spoke too soon these knobs are really
knobbed in there i had to pull out my heavy duty pliers for this i obviously know what i'm doing
even with the pliers it was a bit of a struggle
the double doors have this gold chicken wire in them i see what grandma was going
for but it's just not the vibe i'm going for so i had to get rid of those as well
the chicken wire left a mark i did my best to try and scrape out the remnants by sanding it
down but some of it still got left behind i even went around and sanded the whole thing to help
alleviate some of that floral eyesore and also just to help the paint stick better at some point
i decided i didn't want to have to look at the marigolds anymore so i'm just covering them up
with a couple layers of white paint likes to seep into wood so right now i'm trying to prime it with
some gesso i needed to build up a few layers to really bury that flower garden so i did go
in with white paint to help with that i knew the shelves would be annoying to paint and they were
i had to really angle my brush to get in between them i even tried to get underneath the shelves
left no stone unturned i ended up painting the entire inside white except for the very
back panel just to make everything look more cohesive i mean no one's looking
inside especially once the drawers will be tucked in but i just thought it would look
more finished this way and of course how could i forget the amour's underbelly i'm
not planning on leaving this part white but i figured i'd still give it the attention
it deserves there's still a few knobs left to deal with and i dealt with them swiftly
i was scared the drawers would just break in half during this whole ordeal it took a lot of strength
to force him out all the strength that rarbabe could muster now that the knobs are out of the
way i cleaned up the drawers a fresh coat of white paint i found a matching aquamarine color it looks
pretty close to the color of the velveteen lining this is going to be another modern spooky makeover
it's mostly going to be black and white with a pop of color kind of like sniffledorf's furniture set
except aquamarine is the pop of color this time modern spooky doesn't always have to be
mostly black and white it just works with the idea that i have for this music box so yeah
i'm painting the inside drawers a nice aquamarine only the front side of them though the other sides
i'm planning on leaving white some of the paint does get underneath the drawer i don't want the
bottoms to be painted i feel like they provide a nice contrast so i'm planning on cleaning them up
with acetone later at the end i'm not planning on keeping the whole thing white that would be kinda
boring my idea for this piece is lines last time i did stripes this time i'm doing lines
trying to shake things up a bit i was trying to plan everything out in pencil first i've been
really into spiders recently if you're scared of spiders spiderwebs spiders spiders spiders
spider egg sacks pulling a shack of spiders at you spiders baby spider spider spider spiderman
costume or something the little spiders are cute he's a demonic spider they're so cute look at him
look at him i mean come on i did just decorate my door covered in spiders for halloween but
that wasn't enough for me i'm still going strong with the whole spider theme so here i'm trying
to sketch out a spiderweb it might not look like a traditional spiderweb i'm going for more of a
funky geometric spiderweb look it's not meant to look symmetrical it's meant to be kind of
chaotic and imperfect i did this on purpose it's part of my vision oh hi sniffledorf he still
refuses to leave this music box alone i'm thinking maybe grandma had a cat or something that left
its scent on the music box he's never liked this with any other furniture or anything it's weird
if you're new here and you've ever seen a grandma before any old person let's just make it easy on
you if you've ever seen one of them before you should consider selling your soul to me
by subscribing to my channel and ringing that bell thing so you don't lose me on the internet i post
new videos every friday it might look random but i actually did a lot of sketching and the racing and
more sketching and more erasing i was on a quest to create the most perfect imperfect spider web
in reality though i just settled for this i think it still looks pretty cool the true horror is yet
to unfold but for now more spiders to go around you'd think i could make a straight line with a
ruler but you're wrong some of them are a little wonky that's alright i'll fix it later don't look
at them it's rude to stare there's quite a few touch-ups to do but overall it's not so bad so
far it's a start you can see that one's kind of thick did you see that thick line there all right
time to get serious oh the harbor i wanted nice crisp lines unlike my spiderweb
so i started taping things up very carefully slow and steady wins the race oops it's not as
easy as i make it look the trim is going to be black i feel like it kinda had to be black so
the spider webs had something to blend into on the edge otherwise they're just kind of floating
in space no one likes a flying spider web i kept getting some paint on the back of the music box i
wasn't even gonna mess with the bottom that's just gonna be all black no one's gonna be looking down
there anyway i probably should have taped these edges up but instead i decided to freehand it
i think i got it pretty good though that takes skill more skill than i have but i'm doing my
best the inside's always the most difficult part i had already painted it white but i thought if
the black just ended so abruptly it would look well too abrupt so i'm painting the bottom black
or trying to at least remember the horrors i talked about unfolding well they've arrived
this is a spider stencil i ordered on etsy it was the only spider stencil i could find that had sort
of small spiders i thought these looked pretty cute i could of course paint these spiders myself
they're very simple but i wanted all the spiders to be the exact same size i thought it would
make everything look nice and professional and sleek and modern so i laid the stencil down and
started painting some aquamarine spiders alright not too bad it's kind of cool spider number two
looks like he's lost a bit of weight looking a little spindly okay not too bad though spider
number three okay spider number four oh no it's fine it's fine how i managed to paint outside
the lines while using a stencil i don't know sadly number four wasn't the last of my troubles did i
just ruin this whole thing possibly quite possibly i would probably have been better off if i had
just painted the spiders myself and skipped the stencil entirely i just never imagined it
would go this wrong with the chicken wire gone the windows were looking a bit bare definitely needed
to fill those back up with something i thought spider webs would look nice in the windows and
tie the front together with the rest of the box it was hard finding spider webs that would fit
these dimensions but i looked online and saw that joanne's had these ones available that would fit
pretty closely they were only available at like one of the joanns though which happened to be
like an hour away so that was a fun trip they're almost a perfect fit i just needed to snip off
the tips but first i'm gonna have to paint them black snip snip snip i hot glued them in actually
went a little overboard with the hot glue bit but it's fine it just peels right off i did
want to put glass inside the front of the spider webs to give it a nicer finish but home depot
doesn't cut glass so never mind scratch that idea i can live without it at this point i remembered
i have to acetone the bottom of the drawers i realized that was looking a bit of a mess so i'm
cleaning that up as best as i can the drawers are looking nice but there's still something missing
knobs some of them are coming back is that my hair the gold doesn't fit the theme though so i
painted those black to fit in speaking of fitting in i had trouble pulling them out and now i'm
having trouble putting them back in it took some convincing and the help of my old rusty hammer
the flower knobs on the front are out of commission they're fired instead i'll be
replacing them with thumbtacks i had some on hand that i thought would do the trick
i made some alterations and then hot glued them on but they didn't want to stay
so i ended up going back with some stronger glue e6000 did the trick i put everything in its place
it looks pretty cool but i thought the front looked a little plain a bit boring it needs
something there's too much white space i didn't want any more spiders or spider webs
just something simple to accent it i ended up painting some of the trim black just to break
up that white space a little bit after that i had a whole bunch of touch-ups to do a little
bit of varnishing and it's done overall i'm pretty happy with how it turned out
i'm a little disappointed with the spider stencil things got a little gloopy and out of hand but i
did touch-ups and made them look slightly more presentable the imperfections add character
if you don't want to end up like spider number 25
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