Can't believe it...even another project

My ex wife left behind an ugly wardrobe cabinet. It is particleboard and covered with white laminate. Two doors and 3 drawers. Many people have seen it and called it a refrigerator. It is strongly built but a lot of the laminate is coming off. She had reglued laminate in the past, but now there is just too much separation to do the job right.

This cabinet will be wonderful for shop storage. SO, I have started to remove the remaining laminate. I took off the doors (nice Euro hinges) and found that the builder stapled a shelf in place AFTER the interior laminate was installed, but before the exterior laminate. This would have made 100% removal impossible. But, today I took a jigsaw to that shelf, cut it almost in half, and knocked it a couple of times with a hammer. Then just pulled it out. Next I need to remove the staples which will not be difficult at all. Some of the laminate still holds well, but I experimented with a heat gun and putty knife and found that they work well.

After all the laminate is removed I will coat with some primer and a friend of mine will paint the cabinet. Nothing real fancy, but it will be a nice thing to experiment with faux finishes. It's just going to be a shop cabinet, so who cares HOW nice it is. But I'd like it to be decent looking.