• Home
    • About
    • Services & Policies
    • Just the Woods Media Kit
  • Furniture
    • Past Painted Projects- SOLD
  • Shop Products
    • Shop Wise Owl Chalk Synthesis Paint
    • Shop Dixie Belle Chalk Mineral Paint
    • Shop my Favorite Tools & Supplies
    • eBook
  • FREE Stuff
    • Affordable Back Drop Options
    • How to Paint Furniture – A Beginners Guide
  • Learn
    • Video Tutorials & Downloadable eBooks
  • Blog
    • Recipes
    • painted furniture
    • DIY / Crafts
    • Home Decor
    • Monthly Social Blog Hops with the Best DIY Blogs
  • About Me
    • Nutrition & Health Coaching
  • 0 items

Just the Woods, LLC | a Colorful Home & Healthy Lifestyle Blog

a Colorful Home & Healthy Lifestyle Blog

  • Blog
  • Recipes
  • Nutrition & Health Coaching
  • Painted Furniture
  • DIY / Crafts
    • Home Decor
  • About Me

Anchors Aweigh Navy Pride Vintage Cabinet

Share & Save for later!

124 shares
  • Share40
  • Tweet
  • Email

Anchors Aweigh Navy Cabinet

Way back, many years ago I served in our great Navy. It was five years spent traveling, and making friends and really growing up. It was one of the best times of my life. This makeover is a little nostalgic to me for that main reason.  I’m sharing this Navy Pride cabinet for a couple of reasons.  Aside from it being slightly personal to me, it’s also not often that you see a ‘masculine’ piece of painted furniture. vintage cabinet, navy pride, masculine furniture, painted furniture

It was originally a basic, vintage cabinet with a shelf inside.  Ideal for a small area and versatile enough to use as a table or cabinet. Perfect for a man cave to hide your hooch, cigars, man magazines (hunting, fishing – not the naughty kind!), TV remote control, etc.   It had really beautiful trim around the edges that I wanted to preserve.

Painted Vintage Cabinet with Wood Trim

Disclosure: This Anchors aweigh cigar label vintage cabinet post contains affiliate links. 

I decided to clean up those edges by applying a bit of non-toxic stain to darken them up and only paint inside the squares.  I also removed the hardware.  Not that there was anything wrong with the existing hardware – but I wanted something more appropriate for what I had planned for him.    I  knew I wanted a vintage cigar box label image, have you ever noticed how colorful they are?   Since I’m feeling a bit nostalgic and went with the Navy Pride cigar box label image.  I found the perfect image here.

Navy Pride Vintage Cabinet Makeover

The Navy pride cigar box label image was carefully decoupaged on the front of the cabinet. I made sure to measure and cut the poster down the center. Making sure the image lined up perfectly in the middle was a chore, but I think I did a pretty good job. If it’s the tiniest bit askew, as my husband’s grandmother would say “a man on a galloping horse wouldn’t notice”.

navy pride, cigar label, painted furniture, decoupaged furniture

How gorgeous is that wood around the edges?!

Navy blue chalk paint, chalk paint, painted furniture

Navy Pride, chalk paint, blue paint, painted chest

man cave furniture, navy chalk paint, vintage furniture, staten island Masculine Painted Furniture

Once I finished and sealed him up, I added small bronze pulls and had a custom cut piece of glass cut to protect the top.  My thought process being that since it is an ideal man cave piece and men tend to be a little rougher than women in general (I base that merely on my experiences with the men in my life) a little extra protection from beer spills or water rings isn’t a bad thing.

Decoupage Poster, painted furniture, chalk paint

A Little Personal – US Navy

On the personal side, here are a few throwback photos from my time served in our great Navy in an FA-18A squadron.  There’s nothing like the smell of jet fuel in the morning!

A left side view of an F/A-18A Hornet aircraft of Reserve Composite Fighter Squadron 12 (VFC-12) parked on the squadron flight line. The aircraft is in the unique color scheme of a Russian SU-27 Flanker adversary aircraft.

Anchors Aweigh, my boys, Anchors Aweigh.
Farewell to college joys, we sail at break of day-ay-ay-ay.
Through our last night on shore, drink to the foam,
Until we meet once more. Here’s wishing you a happy voyage home

US NavyNavy Whites

navy-recruitment-poster

If you like this Bold Navy paint color you can get this look with Sailor in the SHOP

I’ll be sharing this post at these fabulous link parties.

Don’t Forget – Follow Just the Woods :

FACEBOOK  *  INSTAGRAM  *  PINTEREST

Let’s stay in touch – Subscribe to our mailing list here:

PINTEREST PIN READY TO SHARE

 

Vintage Navy Pride Cigar Label "man cave" Cabinet by Just the Woods

More from my site

  • How to Decoupage Painted Furniture with Gorgeous Floral PaperHow to Decoupage Painted Furniture with Gorgeous Floral Paper
  • The Ultimate Guide for Stunning Painted Furniture IdeasThe Ultimate Guide for Stunning Painted Furniture Ideas
  • The Best Decoupage Paper & How to Apply it to Painted FurnitureThe Best Decoupage Paper & How to Apply it to Painted Furniture
  • Decoupage Furniture Tutorial: How to Add Floral Paper to Painted FurnitureDecoupage Furniture Tutorial: How to Add Floral Paper to Painted Furniture
  • How to Make Easy DIY Wooden Christmas OrnamentsHow to Make Easy DIY Wooden Christmas Ornaments
  • How to Add Floral Decoupage to Hand Painted FurnitureHow to Add Floral Decoupage to Hand Painted Furniture

Share & Save for later!

124 shares
  • Share40
  • Tweet
  • Email
« Metallic French Provincial Painted Dresser
Painting Pine Furniture – Not Your Grandma’s Tables Anymore »

Comments

  1. Tiara says

    June 16, 2015 at 5:40 am

    Thank you for serving!
    I am always supporting our current troops and our vets!
    I love how creative you made that little cabinet! It’s so cute!

    Reply
    • Kandice says

      June 16, 2015 at 5:44 am

      thank you!

      Reply
  2. Angelic Sinova says

    June 16, 2015 at 5:42 am

    That cabinet turned out so beautiful. This would be the perfect addition to any man cave <3

    Reply
    • Kandice says

      June 16, 2015 at 5:44 am

      thank you !!

      Reply
  3. Jen says

    June 16, 2015 at 5:45 am

    I love with someone can take a piece like this and breathe new life into it. The makeover looks amazing and I love the wood trim. It was a great call leaving it.

    Reply
    • Kandice says

      June 16, 2015 at 6:13 am

      thank you ! If the wood is in nice shape, I try to preserve what I can 🙂

      Reply
  4. Jeska says

    June 16, 2015 at 6:10 am

    Wow you did a phenomenal job! I am not a painter and mine would never come out that awesome!

    Reply
    • Kandice says

      June 16, 2015 at 6:12 am

      thank you so much !

      Reply
  5. Joanne T Ferguson says

    June 16, 2015 at 6:46 am

    I have always had a fascination of furniture restoration and think it is because one can make something old, something new! I love what you have done this to give it new life!

    Reply
    • Kandice says

      June 16, 2015 at 1:42 pm

      thank you Joanne!!

      Reply
  6. Stephanie says

    June 16, 2015 at 9:41 am

    What a beautiful piece! It’s totally transformed. I wish I had talent like that. Thanks for sharing!

    Reply
  7. Michele says

    June 16, 2015 at 9:51 am

    You did an amazing job on that cabinet! It really looks like it was professionally done.

    Reply
  8. Tyra says

    June 16, 2015 at 2:10 pm

    Thank you for your service! This is pretty amazing! I love bringing old life to new things and this cabinet turned out awesome. Great idea!

    Reply
  9. Ashley says

    June 16, 2015 at 2:55 pm

    WOW! My goodness, what a transformation! This is absolutely incredible, I am beyond envious of your talents. Thank you so much for serving 🙂

    Reply
  10. [email protected] Crafty says

    June 16, 2015 at 3:38 pm

    I love what you chose to do with this cabinet- it looks amazing! I love retro-style posters and such so this is right up my alley.

    Reply
  11. mykidsguide says

    June 16, 2015 at 5:39 pm

    Oh wow!I love what you did on that cabinet. I would like to try doing a project like this.

    Reply
  12. Brittnei says

    June 17, 2015 at 1:24 am

    Wow that box was turned into a real masterpiece. I loved it! I would definitely want to put something like that in my husband’s man cave. I love the old pictures. The last one shows that we’ve come a long way as a society. 🙂

    Reply
    • Kandice says

      June 17, 2015 at 3:18 am

      thank you! I love those vintage images 🙂

      Reply
  13. Franc Ramon says

    June 17, 2015 at 3:16 am

    That’s a nice transformation for a cabinet. The navy colors looks elegant.

    Reply
    • Kandice says

      June 17, 2015 at 3:18 am

      thank you Franc!

      Reply
  14. Jacob Fu says

    June 17, 2015 at 6:37 am

    Wow! That looks so good! I wish I had a better eye on refinishing furniture.

    Reply
  15. Pamela says

    June 17, 2015 at 9:03 am

    This is just beautiful! I’ve been starting some projects recently. Hopefully I can give new life to them. Your work is beautiful!
    Thank you for serving.

    Reply
  16. Stephanie of The TipToe Fairy says

    June 17, 2015 at 11:41 am

    This looks gorgeous! I love what you did with it. I would love to try redoing a piece of furniture like this, but I’m terrified I’ll mess it up, lol.

    Reply
  17. CourtneyLynne says

    June 18, 2015 at 4:24 am

    Omg I’m loving what you have done to that piece of furniture!!!! I wish I was cleaver enough to pull something off like that!!! Too cool!

    Reply
  18. XmasDolly says

    June 18, 2015 at 4:43 am

    That’s a real nice piece of furniture that almost died, but you resurrected very well and a mighty handsome piece it is. Thanks for sharing, but more importantly thank you very much for fighting for our country! I salute you! HUGS

    Reply
  19. CoCo says

    June 19, 2015 at 1:50 pm

    This doesn’t even look like the same piece! Such a creative transformation. You nailed it – coco

    Reply
    • Kandice says

      June 19, 2015 at 5:00 pm

      thank you so much!

      Reply
  20. Mommy Peach says

    June 19, 2015 at 10:44 pm

    WOW! You are very talented! That cabinet turned out to be beautiful!

    Reply
  21. Shelly says

    November 13, 2015 at 6:30 am

    Super fun project! Is the image a poster?

    Reply
    • Kandice says

      November 13, 2015 at 2:22 pm

      thank you Shelly. Yes it is

      Reply
  22. June says

    May 26, 2016 at 11:10 am

    Thank you for serving our country, happy memorial day.

    Reply
  23. Denise Hardy says

    June 4, 2016 at 5:18 pm

    You have made a beautiful piece of furniture and love the cigar picture with the blue – very nice indeed 🙂

    Reply
    • Kandice says

      June 5, 2016 at 7:04 pm

      thank you so much Denise 🙂

      Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Meet the Artist

Meet the Artist – Hey there and welcome to my blog!

Click Here to get to know me better and visit my blog.

Click to Order Furniture Paint

dixie belle, dixie belle paint, chalk paint, chalk mineral paint, order paint, order dixie belle
wise owl, wise owl paint, chalk paint, chalk synthesis paint, furniture paint, non toxix paint

Categories

Copyright

 

All content on this blog is the property of Just the Woods, LLC. You are welcome to share my content (to include one photo only) as long as you provide a link back the original post. DO NOT copy entire posts, or crop, edit, or remove watermarks from photos without written permission from me first. Sharing a post from Just the Woods in a capacity where YOU will be compensated is not permitted. Thank you!

  • Privacy & Disclosure

QUICK LINKS

  • Home
  • About
  • Services
  • Galleries
  • Contact Us

OUR LOCATION

Staten Island
New York
10314
United States
[email protected]

Copyright © 2022 · Market Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in

124 shares
  • Pinterest
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Email