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Turning a spare room into a yoga room

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Our spare bedroom upstairs is mainly used for drying laundry and dumping stuff. It also has a single bed in it and my husband's wardrobe. Tonight I decided it has more potential than that, so I tidied it up and added a bit of zen, a buddha and a candle. Voila, here's my new yoga space - combined with dressing room (to display my wonderful gig outfits) and guest bed. This may become my new favourite room in the house... now the main challenge is to keep it tidy!

CHARMING TRUNK

AN ELEPHANT NEVER FORGETS HIS TRUNK...

I DONT KNOW WHAT THAT HAS TO DO WITH THIS BUT IT JUST POPPED INTO MY

HEAD. I FOUND THIS OLD WHITE WICKER TRUNK AT THE TRIFT STORE FOR 6.99 AND I GOT 25% OFF BECAUSE I BOUGHT IT ON A THURSDAY. SO I FIGURED IT WAS A

DEAL EVEN THOUGH I WAS HESITANT ABOUT THE WICKER. I HAVE NEVER WORKED WITH WICKER AND THOUGHT NO MATTER WHAT I DID THAT THIS WOULD STILL HAVE A BORING LOOK. I SANDED DOWN THE HARDWARE AND PAINTED IT WITH

OIL RUBBED BRONZE SPRAY PAINT. AND ASKED FOR ADVISE FROM MY FIANCE, WHO HAS STARTED GIVING ME IMPUT ON ITEMS. HE DONATED A FEW OF HIS BELTS, AND A FEW IDEAS WHICH CREATED THE LOOK OF THE TRUNK..

BEFORE...

AND THE AFTER...

IT WAS A LEARN AS YOU GO PROCESS AND IT THINK IT WORKS...

ROLLING, ROLLING, ROLLING

did i mention i love free... this chair on rollers was also given to me by the lady that gave me the furniture i redid (big red) the dresser, and (little boy blue) the end table-the pieces with the shadow boxes on top. the chair was great reminded me of my office chair i bought from pottery barn years back, i think for around $275.

this chair was flat white with chipped edges and the color didnt seem to fit the piece. so i changed it. i picked a martha stewart color called feather duster. its kinda a greenish grey.

before....

 and the after...

6 SMALL DRAWERS

i wanted to do a little something and i found this

little box with 6 small drawers for $1.00. i knew this was my next project !!!

i had some old knobs from a dresser i previously had redone and i wanted to use them..

before knobs...

and this is the box before...

so i painted the knobs as well as the box and this is the

AFTER...

i love the way the little cabinet turned out. im thinking about keeping it in my kitchen and putting teabags in it, or maybe in the office to hold rubberbands and paperclips..

Repurposing furniture and other things

Hello everyone! It’s January 2011 and as most of us are broke after the December month I thought I write a post about repurposing or altering things you already own or can find for little money.

Looking at the overload of TV commercials from the home superstores it seems that the nation is obsessed with getting new furniture, buying new kitchens and bathrooms and basically getting their whole house done for springtime. I can't help but think people must still all want to keep up with the Joneses and subsequently put themselves into debt as a result, despite the difficult economic times we're in. Anyway, how about we don’t buy all those expensive new things but instead look at what we already own or can find for free or little money and how we can give it a new life?

This is a vintage sofa my mum once rescued from the marriage resistry office at the local Town Hall in Emmen, The Netherlands. Although not repurposed by physically changing it, I gave it a new purpose by placing it in my student room, and later moved it to my first apartment. When I moved again and the sofa turned out to be too large, I had it "adopted" by my good friend Mieke in Utrecht, who now loves it. Schools, local authority buildings and other offices sometimes get rid of furniture, shelving units and desks. Worth keeping an eye out for them...



I got inspired by this post on the Daily What and really wanted to share this with you. "The amazing transformed oven lounge". Not something you would DIY on a Saturday, but what a great idea!




I also came across this - I must admit slightly silly - idea of repurposing a water wing via Apartment Therapy. Still, it's very original!



Has anyone ever looked at the Ikea Hacker site? It's brilliant how people take a run-of-the-mill Ikea item and just make it into something else. Now this Billy bookcase is still a Billy bookcase, except the owner has 'hacked' it by turned it on its side and mounting it onto the wall making it 'float'. Cool!





Fruit crates are very versatile to reuse in the home. Here they've been mounted onto the kitchen wall to be used as open shelving, looking very nice. Found it on the great blog Poetic Home.




Another amazing project featured on Poetic Home is this huge desk made from repurposed books, created by Architectural students at Delft University of Technology. Could you imagine something similar for your own home in the shape of a smaller desk or coffee table?

My car (a lovely old Mazda Mx5 with pop-up head lights) had to go for its MOT today and failed on a rusty bottom (ooh, that doesn't sound right, does it, haha). We're getting it repaired - once again - but if ever it had to die, I would like it to be turned into a sofa, like Bel & Bel have done with a Seat 600. What a cracker.

I drive one in black - such a cool little car

What have you given a new life?

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