Before & After – Lego Table
This Lego table / Lego storage project took a long time. Normally, I would have whipped out a nightstand in a day or two, but this one was well over a week – mostly because I couldn’t decide what I wanted to do with it. This is the crappy nightstand that I started with: Awful. […]
Before & After – Lockers
I read an article where a person was looking for pantry ideas; her home didn’t have one, and she wanted something she could put in her kitchen, but without a hefty built-in price tag. Her solution ended up being lockers. She retrofitted them with shelves and painted them a bright colour and they were AMAZING! […]
Lingerie chest makeover
This is a tiny little dresser – about 18″ wide and only about 12″ deep. I guess it would be called a lingerie dresser or lingerie chest? A “disaster dresser” to begin with. Look at the destroyed top! Missing knobs, chipped drawers – and what you can’t see inside, is that the drawer bottoms are […]
Home Office – bookshelf makeover
I’m so excited to share today’s bookshelf makeover with you! If you’ve followed along you know that I’m in the midst of an office makeover and as part of that makeover I picked up these two “teak” cabinets; I put teak in quotes because that was how they were advertised – but when I went […]
Repurposed Dresser: Dresser, Toybox and Bookshelf in One!
*This is a post I wrote in June 2013 – one of my earlier blog posts. When I moved my site from Blogger to WordPress a lot of my Pinterest links broke, so I’m attempting to update older posts with a few new photos and create new links on Pinterest. If you were with me […]
Oak Cabinet Makeover
How was your weekend? We had AMAZING weather here all weekend – which is strange because last week we saw frost in the mornings. This global warming thing is playing havoc with our seasons (but this weekend it was to our advantage). I spent almost every minute of the last three days in my workshop […]
How to add a shelf to furniture
Tag: How to add a shelf to furniture, adding a shelf to furniture, replace a drawer with a shelf, nightstand makeover, two-tone nightstand, grey nightstand One of my favourite upgrades to a piece of furniture is replacing drawers with shelves. If you add a shelf to furniture it creates an entirely new look, with new […]