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a display case filled with lots of toy cars and action figures on top of glass shelves

Motivation I knew right from the start I wanted to LED light my detolf cabinets after seeing so many impressive setups on the tfw2005 forums. I also knew I wanted to do it cheap, and that doing it via a DIY path was viable for me. Looking at other people's installs, the devil is in the details and often people would skimp a bit on the tidy side of the wiring, and people also weren't very specific in their descriptions of their builds! So I had the idea, but no build details.. so here is my…

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a glass display case sitting on top of a white dresser in a room with red walls

Almost ready for my Poppy Parkers!! I finished painting the old IKEA detolf's white. I wanted to put a finish coat on them but read it can turn amber. That would look terrible! I'm going to stick with just the gloss latex. My IKEA dresser is a malm 3x2 that I hacked by swapping the side pieces from a malm nightstand that is only 2 high. I wanted my detolf's raised but not too high, and this is perfect for me! It was rather simple, I only had to shorten the middle support, and I repurposed…

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a display case filled with lots of toy figurines

I looked everywhere for a cool idea for how to display my Futurama collection. I really liked the Ikea Detolf glass cabinets. So I have a 2x4 base, 1/4 inch plywood around that. I took the top of the cabinet to Lowes had then color match it and got a semi gloss black brown paint. I made spacers for the top and bottom in between each cabinet of 7/8 in Then I got 5 fluted trim board I trimmed them down to 3.5 inches. Added some crown molding a 1/4 plywood topcap. Good Earth lights from Home…

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