The ugly bathroom cabinet part 2-frosting the glass doors

Last week  I painted my truly hideous ugly laminate bathroom cabinet, and I have to say, it really turned out great.  It looks very slick and clean, and makes my tiny rental bathroom a much more pleasant place to do some unpleasant things.  But its clean, shiny newness  made me really hate being able to see all the bottles of junk and girl goo I store in there (I suspected this would happen).  So this week I frosted the doors using some frost paint and skinny tape to make a cute herringbone pattern on the glass.  Now you can see a suggestion of goo, pleasantly blurred into colored blocks and shapes.

supplies:

• rubbing alcohol
• cotton balls
• 1/4″ masking tape (found at Amazon)
• Martha Stewart glass paint in frost translucent
• stencil brush or pouncer

  Clean the inside of the glass doors with rubbing alcohol and let dry.  Use masking tape to tape a herringbone design by first taping lines top to bottom. Then tape diagonal lines meeting at the tape.  I made my intentionally “perfectly imperfect”; because if I tried to make it “perfect perfect”, there would undoubtedly be one line that was crooked and it would be all I saw when I looked at these doors. So I made some gaps thicker than others, and wasn’t too particular about my ends matching up at the lines in the middle.  Even being purposely imperfect, the taping part did take a while.  I put on music LOUD and tried to zen into the process.

  I applied three thin coats of frost paint, letting each dry 1 hour before putting on the next coat.  I used a round stencil brush and dabbed the paint on. After each coat, I wiped the brush dry and dabbed the glass again to clean up any thick paints spots and make the paint even.

  Once the paint was dry, I used an exact-o knife and ruler to score along the lines of the tape to make a clean line.  The I slowly peeled the tape off.  Done.

While this worked  and I am happy with it, the lines from the tape are a little rough in some places (Especially before I started using a ruler to cut the tape lines. Duh).  If I wasn’t concerned about fumes, I would use frost spray paint and peel the tape when it was still wet next time to get cleaner lines.