Don't pass up that cabinet or dresser!!!

YOu can fix it!!

Have you ever seen a cabinet or dresser that doesn't have a drawer and you loved the rest of it, but thought you couldn't buy it because it has no drawer? well I saw this cabinet and it had no drawer , but I immediately thought wait I can put a shelf there and that's what we did. With the help of my husband we made a new shelf to replace the missing drawer. We used Ryobi tools and Wise Owl paint. Below is the picture of the cabinet and the headboard we used to make the shelf. If you have solid wood headboards or pieces of wood you haven't used yet, use them to make the shelf.

This is the headboard we used, we then used a sawsal to cut the posts off.

You are going to then use a square to line off where you are cutting, make sure you have measured the size of shelf you need for the inside of your cabinet.

 You then have cut your board to size. You can sand it down if you want and re stain or leave as is if it matches what you're creating.

You can trim your edges and shape them with your router. The bit used was roman ogey. I think thats how you spell it lol.
then you can stain it like i did to match the inside above. There were two previous drawer stoppers where the drawer used to be so my husband added two divets in the shelf so that we could hammer it down and the stoppers would go into the wood. Then you seal and let it cure. I made sure i had painted the whole inside of where the shelf was going. I used Wise Owl white primer, Wise Owl paint in Citron and Wise Owl satin varnish. Wise Owl products are here on my website or my Etsy shop. Thank you for reading