Make a Plain Cabinet into a Pie Safe!

Make a Plain Cabinet into a Pie Safe!



I adore pie safes. The look, the romance of bygone times, the smell of freshly baked pie in my mom's kitchen... mmmmmm delightful!

I've wanted a pie safe forever, but they don't ever seem to turn up for sale around here.  Sigh.  What to do.  A few weeks ago, I got an email from  D. Lawless Hardware offering me whatever I wanted from their stock to build something cool with.  When I saw the pie safe tin on their site I was so excited!!!  I picked out the old fashioned wheat sheaf pattern and got 4 of them.

I knew I wanted to create a pie safe, but I didn't know which cabinet to pick.  Then my eye settled on the unfinished pantry cabinet in my kitchen.  I've been searching for a way to dress up the plain jane door I built for it.  It just didn't do much for the cabinet and it certainly wasn't as charming as the shutter doors that I used on the top half.

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Make a Plain Cabinet into a Pie Safe!