Repurposed Shoe Box- Fabric Covered Storage Box

I always seem to have a lot of small toiletry items that I need but I don’t use every day. It works better for me if I can keep those corralled rather than scattered all about my bathroom closet. A fabric covered shoe box serves the purpose very well. I had previously purchased a couple from Tuesday Morning that my daughter uses for storage. One of the ones that I purchased is pictured below. I’ve always hesitated to throw away a sturdy shoebox with an attached lid! When I ran across this...

Bamboo Blind Deal Alert

I ran into Lowe’s yesterday to pick up a couple of items. As is usually the case, one item that I needed was at the front of the store and the other item that I needed was at the very back corner of the store. On my stroll to the back of the store I completely accidentally passed through the window covering department. Some bamboo blinds just happened to catch me eye. Then a yellow clearance sticker really caught my eye. What??? Was $58 and now $11.60!! If my calculations serve me correctly that...

Towel Bar from Recycled Piano Parts

I needed a towel bar in my laundry room at our summer cottage and I found the perfect “object” to adapt. Obviously it is made from a part of my grandmother’s piano but can you tell what the part was? I’m sure that you have guessed by now that it was one of the pedals! I left it attached to the original hardware and just used screws to mount it to the wall. It swings out to hang the towel. I gave it a good cleaning with steel wool and mounted it. Quick and easy! I still have enough...

Another Headboard from Recycled Piano Wood

Since I wanted to keep my son’s room at home intact so that he would have a place to stay when he comes home, I needed an inexpensive headboard for his apartment bed. Last summer, he and I disassembled my grandmother’s old upright piano and I have been recycling the parts (except for the very heavy metal soundboard that he and a friend cashed in at the scrap metal yard!) Sorry, I don’t have good pictures again but as I stated in my last post, after hauling the goods up to the third floor I was too...

Making a Slipcover for Grandma’s Sofa

Several weeks ago I took on a quick project of updating my grandmother’s sofa so that it could be used in my son’s apartment. Sorry for the grainy picture, but after hauling all of his belongings up to the third floor my energy was spent and I didn’t want to look for my good camera! I know that it takes away from the “big reveal” to show the “after” pictures first, but my “before” pictures are often so unappealing that I’m afraid no one will read the post if I don’t give you a taste of the reveal...