So been hitting up CL for about 2 months and finally just gave up and bought a POS beat up chest freezer for 50$. Works great, just really ugly. I wanted to just go the route of paint black then put a collar on and call it a day. Well with it being so ugly I decided to cover it.
Made a base with casters.
Made a collar out of 1X12 common board and framed around.
Then covered with a veneer project panel. There is about a 1 to 1.5" gap around the outside so hopefully heat from condenser coils can work its way out. Need to cut out a square and put a register where the compressor vent is.
Made a new top since the freezer top was also beat to hell and back.
I'm going to trim out everything tomorrow with just some corner moulding and simple trim. Then paint the collar and trim a nice brown color I have left over from another project. I tried staining a few scraps and will be a huge pain trying to get a good color on the pine wood.
Made a base with casters.
![](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/197/19762f7b7196cea3ffdced2b7409aabd.jpg)
Made a collar out of 1X12 common board and framed around.
![](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/297/297c685e94ac8d18b9f4da840a9e188e.jpg)
Then covered with a veneer project panel. There is about a 1 to 1.5" gap around the outside so hopefully heat from condenser coils can work its way out. Need to cut out a square and put a register where the compressor vent is.
![](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/856/856a0c7473e6aa3fb0be65cb93e67334.jpg)
Made a new top since the freezer top was also beat to hell and back.
![](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/e02/e02923389826ec747ce215cb3bc6c6cb.jpg)
I'm going to trim out everything tomorrow with just some corner moulding and simple trim. Then paint the collar and trim a nice brown color I have left over from another project. I tried staining a few scraps and will be a huge pain trying to get a good color on the pine wood.