Restoring An UGLY BLUE Painted Apothecary Cabinet

In this video I'm working on this blue painted mini apothecary style cabinet or whatever kind of cabinet you want to call it. It has paint all over the piece and cobwebs on the bottom some scuffs throughout and a few issues we will deal with in the video but I have a pretty fun plan for this piece that I plan on keeping for myself so let's get this project started and start removing some of this paint. If you didn't know I started a community called the Furniture Squad. It's a close-knit community with almost 400 members where we share our furniture projects, share our tips, tricks, and just help each other out to stay motivated. If you're interested in joining make sure to check out the link in the description or scan for more info. This video is sponsored by the EufyMake E1 and I'm going to be using it in this project. The E1 is the world's first personal 3D textured UV printer. It can print full color designs on over 300 different materials like wood, leather, metal, glass, and so much more. So I've been playing around with it for the last couple of days and what's impressed me the most is the level of detail in the print. Not only can it print incredibly sharp detailed images, it can also print raised textures that you could actually see and feel. For this project I'm going to print out some custom label pulls. So these little label pulls I found at a local store here and we're going to make these little custom label plates right on the inside of these. So we need to make eight of them and I have a pretty fun idea I can actually use this and keep for myself. So let's get this project started and I'll show you how it all works. So I'm making my cabinet a sandpaper cabinet. So it's going to hold that for me and I'm making label plates for each different grit of sandpaper. So starting with 80 grit then a photo of 80 grit sandpaper, 100 grit, 100, 120, 240, and then I'll have a drawer that'll have sanding extras on it. So this is EufyMake Studio. There's a bunch of projects you can look through on this app which is awesome and you don't even need Canva. You can just make stuff in this app. But I'm just so used to Canva I use it all the time. Anyways to get started I'm going to click new design. This is going to open up my design that I'm going to print. We are going to use the images that I downloaded from Canva here and we're going to insert them in the EufyMake app right here. Okay now I have all the images uploaded on the EufyMake Studio. I'm going to head over to the machine and place our paper on the adhesive mat on the flatbed piece. So I cut out all these pieces of paper for the label plates and now we are going to stick them on this piece here, the flatbed. This whole flatbed top piece here has a full adhesive sheet on it. So this thing's actually sticky and what I'm going to do here is stick these on right to the adhesive pad but I'm also going to use some tape. So as you can see sometimes you might overflow here onto the sticky mat and you might as well place some tape. It'll make it for peeling up these easier and if you do have any spillover it won't stick on your mat and your mat will last longer. Even though these are replaceable it's just nice to have it last a little bit longer. So now I have all the paper stuck onto the adhesive mat and just some tape behind so if I do have a bit of spillover on the tops it's not a big deal. I just peeled the tape off later. So let's throw this back on the machine and then we will go to the computer take a picture of it because there's a camera in the EufyMake E1 and we can place out all of our grits on each one of these. After sticking everything to the adhesive mat and putting the flatbed back in now we can come over here and click snapshot and on our machine on the EufyMake E1 it's going to take a picture and show us our printing platform. So now you can see the image is in the background so that is our printing platform on the flatbed. So now I'm going to place everything in the correct places so when we print it prints right in the right spot. Okay now I have everything in place and now I just need to click on the background of each and I need to click pattern texture because this is going to be a textured piece. We want to make it feel like real sandpaper so as you can see here it's kind of showing what the texture looks like. The thickness I'm going to make the 80 grit one a little bit thicker so let's make this 0.8 and that smoothness 4 and that one's good. So because we have two different layers for each one we have a text layer and the sandpaper layer I'm going to click the text now and what I'm going to do here is do a flat raised so it's going to actually show that it's raised off the piece a bit so we're going to have a textured text layer on top and the thickness of this is going to be I'm going to make it 0.80. So I set all the pattern textures and then I have the flat raise and now we are ready to start printing. So let's see how long this is going to take. So I click print now we are starting. Click the start button. Now I'm going to let this print for almost 30 minutes. I have my window open and I'm going to have a fan going and I'm going to leave the room. Okay we're all done let's open it up. They recommend you wear gloves. It's looking pretty good. That's pretty cool. Here is the reason why I thought this would be perfect for sandpaper. The drawer, the sandpaper box fits perfectly. So for sanding extras I have you can put your foam sanding pad in there, 600 grit sandpaper, and then my extra sanding pads. There's a bunch of stuff like that can go in there.