Mrs. Whited, In the Living Room, With the TV Cabinet
A crime? We haven’t decided yet.
The story involves a little home project that we were super-excited about – but after it was all finished we kind of stepped back and went “meh.” You all have been there too, right? Or is it just us?
The goal was to hide all of the immense clutter seen through the glass panels on our TV console.
As much as we love our Mario Kart steering wheels, there is no need to stare at them all the time. So we started brainstorming ways to conceal them without buying a new console table. This one was a steal at $50 from Tar-jay.
Lots of things came to mind. Could we add fabric inside the glass? What about painting inside the glass. Yes we’re nuts-o. What about getting more organized and finding a few baskets? Who are we kidding?
This somewhat odd mission led us to the windows section of Lowes, where we picked up an inexpensive roll of frosted window film for about $8.
Perfect right?
We just took our two glass paneled doors off the console, gave the inside of them a good cleaning and applied the film per the boxes instructions. We didnt’ buy the recommended tool kit because that would have been another $10 and well, we’re just too cheap for all of that.
It’s basically a peel and super-stick film so we just carefully rolled it on with the window still a little damp from the Windex. Then we used our Harris Teeter VIC card to smooth out the bubbles.
It was a completely painless process and didn’t take much time at all to get these results.
Now we just can’t decide if we’re happy with the results or not. Is the frosting too white for our dark cabinet? Is it still too transparent? We can still see that bright orange Buck Hunter gun through the frost. Maybe a basket is still in order?
It’s growing more on me than it is on Chad. When I told him what this afternoon’s post was about, he even curled his nose up at the fact I was posting about it, so what does that tell you? The good news is that this film is completely removable so if we do decide we hate it we’re just out eight bucks.
Oh well, so we’re not married to the whole frosted glass window film idea yet. Heck, we aren’t even sure we’re dating it yet. The point is we had and idea and we tried it out. Should we still talk to other ideas or is that just going too far?
Hate the game not the playa.
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I like the frosted glass look but if you (or the Bro-in-law lol) don’t like the frosted glass but want a similar more colorful look then go to hobby lobby or michelles or you craft store of choice lol, and pick up some sheets of colored velum. It comes in every color in the rainbow, I find it in scrap book supplies, it is slightly transparent like the frosting sheet but you could go for something like orange (to make the orange gun blend in lol). Just use a little double sided tape on the back of the glass behind the frame for a couple days to see that you like it then if you do you can use something more perminent like maybe a spray adhesive. I have also played around with the idea of replacing glass panes with these plexi glass textured sheets you can get at lowes that are meant to cover industrial lighting in those drop down ceilings. They have alot of frosted pretty textures and some that are super clear and not frosted but the texture in so heavy that it still obscures whats behind it. They aren’t very expensive at all.
I like the frosted look on this and don’t think it’s too white at all. Very crisp and clean.
I have to be honest and say that I don’t love it. I think you could go bolder with fabric and then totally block out everything behind the glass.
If you’re thinking it’s too white, you could always take an x-acto knife and cut a small pattern into the film before you put it in. They also have patterned film, but I like the idea of making it into artwork :)