Before and After ... repurpose, recyclying, saving.

Before and After ... most of these projects were done when I first started blogging. One even long before that ... heck, I have been doing this just about all my life !!!

My happiness comes when I can re-purpose something, 

save it from the dump and make it beautiful and useful. 

I enjoy working with wood and love to recycle, re-purpose  lamps and lighting fixtures. 

 

Boards came from our lumber pile ... natural antler drops from the ranch ... no animal was harmed to make this shelf.

Tutorial: Antler shelf here

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The Dedicated House.  Thanks Kathryn

Before: Sad metal cart  After with granite top.

Industrial TV console can be seen here. 

Pretty lamp make-over with just a little paint, re-wire and a pretty shade. Easy-peasy ...  

25¢ shop stool before and after ... just look at those pretty legs ... HERE

Display shelf

Before

                                 After

Sign boards to French numbered stair step display shelf.

This was a challenging project ... watch me make the transformation here.

25¢ Clock                After

                             Make-over can be seen HERE.

Rustic bench made from recycled barn wood from an old house.   
Before.      

After




Tutorial can be seen HERE

Before ... 25¢










After can be seen HERE

Sweet ............

 Before The cabinet no one would steal can be seen here.   

  

AFTER ...                                                           

Wheels ... 
bead board ...
glass drawer pulls ...
painted and distressed too ... 
WOW ...

From this five gallon bucket of reclaimed beaded boards, 

I made ... two WELCOME signs and a clock display shelf. 

Can be see here ... here ... here

This old post lantern had just about served its time ... but a little TLC saved it. Beautiful old wavy glass ... just had to save it.

See how it was done HERE ...


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Cabinet Nobody Would Steal

Trash to Treasure Green Cabinet

Last year, I participated in Community Sale hosted by my friend who does Estate Sales. She prices and sets up the displays. It is a Friday/Saturday sale. If the item does not sale the first day, then it is half-price on Saturday. Unsold items must be picked up Monday morning or they will be donated to a Thrift Store. This is a good way to sale more expensive items.

I did very well with my sales ... but this is not what this post is about ... it is about an old cabinet that nobody would steal. When we went to pick up our unsold items on Monday; the person running the sale, made note of three pieces of shabby furniture that were sitting outside the building and had been there all week and through the week-end. He said he had hoped someone would steal them over the week-end, but he guessed they were not worth stealing. He offered them to anyone that would haul them off. 

Well, guess who hauled off this little gem.
 
The old piece of linoleum on the top was disgusting ... the back was cardboard.

 
I think it was a built-in for a kitchen or bathroom, but you can see what it had been used for. The white line on the third drawer shows the broken corner. Notice the dates on the bottom drawer ...  1949  1962.
 
 It had good bones and just needed some TLC.

 

Once the yucky linoleum and the old glue was taken off ... the top boards were not bad but ... I replaced the top with some recycled old tongue and groove boards. Loved this!!! 
Sorry, I did not get a picture before I sanded them.

Replacing the top was necessary because it was not big enough to cover the addition of the beaded-board.
 
I replaced the back and the damaged side with beaded-board paneling that was given to me.

 

I mixed some paints until I got a color I liked, making chalk paint by adding a little un-sanded tile grout and painted it.  

 

I sanded it down to give it that time-worn look and added vintage glass drawer handles. Love these and have had them forever ... don't even know what I paid for them, but not much. 
So, all considered, I do not have much cost in this cabinet.  

FREE cabinet ...  
Free beaded-board ... 
FREE tongue and groove boards ...
FREE labor (Mr. Z works for free) ...

LOW COST handles...
I love FREE and LOW COST.

 

 Nobody would steal it but look at it now ...
Mr. Z. replaced the broken corner and you can't even tell it.


Right now, I have it on my front porch with no plans to use it in the house, but sure would make a nice cabinet in a laundry room, craft room or bath room. It is 33" tall and the top is about 22" square. I reinforced the bottom and added heavy rollers for easy moving. 

I have a large stencil with birds and a tree branch that I am thinking about putting on the front ... What do you think? ... stencil or just leave it plain?
 
I will sell it in a garage sale this summer. 

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Blessings,
Audrey Z. 
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