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I took a few hours off from working on my wip this weekend to help reorganize my kid's rooms. Both my daughter and my son need shelf space. Who doesn't, right?!
Since I wasn't real excited about going shopping for something new, I thought about rethinking/reusing stuff we already had. I poked around the garage and saw this old wicker set of drawers collecting dust and rust. It wasn't being used very well so, I emptied it out, dusted it off, and thought the drawers would make great box shelves for my son's room. All it needed was some wooden backboards that I cut out and painted and--that was it!
Since I wasn't real excited about going shopping for something new, I thought about rethinking/reusing stuff we already had. I poked around the garage and saw this old wicker set of drawers collecting dust and rust. It wasn't being used very well so, I emptied it out, dusted it off, and thought the drawers would make great box shelves for my son's room. All it needed was some wooden backboards that I cut out and painted and--that was it!
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| I cut out wooden backboards mainly to make it easier to nail into the drywall in my son's room. |
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| Pretty easy and I really like the result. |
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| Weaving using leftover twine I had in the garage. |
But then, I was left with this metal frame and a daughter who still needed shelf space. I thought about cutting more wood panels but my ribbon saw won't cut wide enough to fit the frame and you really don't want me anywhere near a hand saw! So, I picked up some twine and tried weaving it into the frame to see how it would turn out. Well, I liked the result and if I had had more twine, I would have woven the rest of it the same way. But, I didn't. I did however, have a bag full of brightly colored leftover yarn my mother had given to me a while back...humm...I tried the yarn and ended up using that for the rest of the shelves. The neat thing is, it really didn't take that long to weave. One shelf took me about 30 minutes to finish and that included the countless times I dropped the ball of yarn and had to stop to rewind what had unraveled. Grrrrr!
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| Anyway, here it is finished! I liked it so much, that I spent 10 minutes trying to convince my daughter she really didn't need it. Yeah, that didn't work. |
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Here it is set up in my daughter's room before she put her books in it. The only other thing I added, was some plastic laminated sheets on top of the yarn to give it a little more rigidity. And Voilà! (: |
Now, back to my WIP. *crack!*
And Happy Father's Day to all you great dads out there.
Have a wonderful day!
(((((((((((HUGS)))))))))))
