Archive for the ‘Storage’ Category
Posted by Sonia Zjawinski to Decorating and Furniture and How-To and Pets and Reuse and Storage on
12 July 2010, with 4 comments so far.
Ever since I saw Kim Johnson’s Ikea hacked kitty shelf I’ve wanted to make one of my own. The clever mod cuts an Ikea diaper changing table in half to create two wall shelves affixed to the wall.
With an Ikea gift card given as a wedding gift, I set out to make my own. Along the way, with the help of my sculptor father (who is a crafty carpenter, plumber, and general genius on the side), I made some adjustments to Kim’s original schematics. After the jump, how to make my version of Kim’s clever hack.
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Tags: cat shelf, ikea, ikea hack, wall shelf
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Posted by Sonia Zjawinski to Furniture and Pets and Storage on
1 July 2010, with 3 comments so far.
Litter boxes; the one major drawback to living with cats. Not only do they hold stinky presents, but they tend to be pretty unsightly. In recent years there have been some design improvements but even with a good looking crapper, do you really want to see the soiled litter within? It’s the equivalent of keeping the toilet seat up. Why look at it if you don’t have to?
Through Shelterrific I found this rad litter box hideaway. What makes Out of Sight more than just a box hiding a litter box is that it also helps keep litter from tracking all over your home. An Astro-turf style carpet both on the second floor, where the litter box is, and the first floor entrance, catch loose kernels from your cat’s feet.
The box is made of 1/2 inch thick panels of high grade plastic coat melamine. All the edges are “edge banded,” which seals them from absorbing litter box misses. The back panel is coated as well, and features ventilation holes. The Out of Sight Litter Box sells for $170 to $190 depending on the finish you get and doesn’t include an actual litter box. You can fit most trays (up to 19 x 16 inch) within, though Out of Sight also sells its own high wall box for $45.
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Tags: hidden litter box, hide a litter box, litter box, out of sight litter box
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Posted by Megan Jeyifo to Decorating and Organizing and Storage on
23 June 2010, with no comments so far.
Added to the ReadyMade Flickr pool by user lakbdesign/fergusandme
When I was seventeen I moved from Milwaukee to the Virgin Islands. I drove my new-to-me Hyundai Accent from the Midwest to West Palm Beach, Florida in three days to ship my car and sent the rest of my belongings down by post.
What did I not trust the US Postal Service to hang on to? My books. Those I stashed in my trunk, the backseat and oh yes, the front seat. In the ten years since then I’ve moved five times and every single one of those titles and my many new acquisitions have traveled in the car each and every time. No moving service has laid hands on the majority of them and as neurotic as it sounds I always feel good knowing they’re close by.
But I have been bad. My precious books are now scattered around the house in different areas and completely unorganized. I have stacks upon stacks of books lining the walls in two different rooms and little piles decorating bedside and coffee tables. Do they look nice? Yes. Can I find the Walter Mosley section at 2am when I want an Easy Rawlins fix? No.
Here are some book displays from must-see Tumblr Book Lovers Never Go To Bed Alone that look good and make organizing a cinch.
This floor-to-ceiling bookshelf would be perfect for the bay window in my apartment. Instead of just sills, I would love to construct two separate window seats for couples reading sessions in the breeze. Add a cocktail or a glass of iced tea and you have the perfect Sunday afternoon.
A series of small wire shelves for collections by author or type would help keep large groupings by author together. I’ll now be on the lookout for small shelving on thrifting and estate sale trips.
A nice spin on simple shelves for odd angles in your home. Simple to construct with plywood and brackets, it is also darn affordable.
How do you display and organize your books? Add your photos to the ReadyMade Flickr Group here.
[All images via Book Lovers Never Go To Bed Alone on Tumblr]
Tags: book display, book lovers never to go bed alone, bookshelves
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Posted by Garth to How-To and Kitchen and Reuse and Salvage and Storage and Uncategorized on
3 June 2010, with 14 comments so far.
The kitchen is one of the rooms in our house that we spend the most time in. Claire and I live in Humboldt County, California, which is blessed with incredible local food resources. College of the Redwoods, where I teach, has its own organic farm and CSA. Our local food co-op is well-stocked with local cheeses like Humboldt Fog, local organic meats and local seafood.
The kitchen was the first room that we started tearing into when we started renovating our house, and unfortunately, it was one of the last to be finished. We wanted the kitchen to be a place where we actually wanted to hang out and spend our time. The kitchen as we originally found it was fairly well laid out, but filled with horrible cheap 80’s cabinets, dingy floral wallpaper and cheap appliances.
We installed a dishwasher, put up drywall over the wallpaper and painted the room a bright yellow and installed some funky lighting fixtures. It was a great start, but the stove—an inexpensive Sears model with an old pegboard over it— continued to taunt us.
The horror. After removing the pegboard.
What could we do to make the stove area fun and functional? A new stove would be a good start. We started combing Craigslist for vintage stoves, and finally found a great (but really dirty and greasy) one that we could afford. Claire put a huge amount of elbow grease (and gallons of vinegar) into cleaning it. You can read about her valiant efforts HERE.
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Tags: crates, keeping up with the johnsons, Kitchen, remodeling, soda crates, spice rack, spices
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Posted by Sonia Zjawinski to Kitchen and Pets and Storage on
2 June 2010, with 6 comments so far.
Kim Johnson blogs about home décor for Desire to Inspire. Every day her posts are filled with photos of enviable interiors, many of which can be found within her impeccable Ottawa, Canada home. And while each room within her 926 square foot pad is a study in beauty, it’s the fact that Kim shares her space with 9 cats (and her fiancé!) that’s really impressive.
With so much fur flying, Kim’s home could have easily ended up looking like a PetCo cat aisle, but instead she’s brilliantly figured out how to incorporate living with cats with living in style.
One of the ingenious additions she added when she remodeled her kitchen is a secret floor hatch that leads her felines to the little kitty room.
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Tags: desire to inspire, hatch, hidden litter box, litter box
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Posted by Megan Jeyifo to Decorating and Organizing and Storage on
4 May 2010, with 3 comments so far.
My cheese grater earring display was (mostly) declared cute and not crazy by you, ReadyMakers! Thank you for the validation.
Today, I’m thinking about do-it-yourself necklace displays and as usual, the internet is proving to be a treasure trove of useful, pretty and inexpensive ideas.
How do you display your necklaces?
Clockwise: Knob Necklace Display, Decor8 via Mustard and Sage; Make A Necklace Rack, Painted Fish Studio (with tutorial) via Thread Banger; Solaana’s Jewelry Display, Apartment Therapy
Tags: display, diy, diy jewelry display, diy jewelry organizer, jewelry, necklace, organize, Organizing, Storage
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Posted by Megan Jeyifo to Reuse and Salvage and Storage on
29 April 2010, with 1 comment so far.
Blogger Elsie Marley (real name Meg, like me!) added the photo above to ReadyMade’s Flickr pool this weekend. It was just the inspiration I needed to start thinking seriously about what to do with my own tiny bathroom. Her blog post on the project details the three year journey spawned in part by her brother dropping a hammer on their previous sink, leaving them no choice but to replace it quickly. I’m contemplating dropping something very heavy on my own pea-green sink and telling the landlord that it has just got to go.
What is not to love about this bathroom? While small, Meg has added practical storage that doesn’t sacrifice style. The mailbox on the side of the $100 antique cabinet was scooped from the trash years back and repurposed to hold books and magazines. The metal First Aid kit on the right wall was an eBay find and hides meds from little kiddies. A high school boyfriend was the source for the box on top of the toilet.
The most inspiring part about this photo? She spent a little over three hundred bucks for the whole thing. Thanks for sharing, Meg! I’m off to go (accidentally) destroy my sink.
Add your photos to ReadyMade’s Flickr Pool here.
[Photo: elsiemarley]
Tags: bathroom makeover, bathroom repurpose, bathroom storage, decor, Decorating, elsie marley, flickr, mailbox, small bathroom, upcycled bathroom
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Posted by Chris Gardner to Kitchen and Organizing and Storage on
13 April 2010, with 4 comments so far.
Once the kitchen cabinets are full and the countertops cluttered, where else is there to go but up?
Tight on space and budget, an unnamed IKEAHacker created this spirit-and-glassware storage center from IKEA’s ASKER dish drying racks, hung on an ASKER rail, with a few wine glass racks suspended below.
“Constrained for space and renting (so not wanting to make big holes in the wall) I decided to hang everything I could in the kitchen. This included hanging pots and pans over the entrance to the kitchen (careful to hang the small ones over the passage to permit passage for up to 6′3″), and the Asker suspended liquor bar hack.”
[Asker Liquor Bar Hack at IKEA Hacker]
Tags: bar, glasses, hacks, How-To, ikea, Kitchen, liquor, rack, smallspaces, wine
Posted in Kitchen, Organizing, Storage | 4 Comments »
Posted by Chris Gardner to Furniture and Kitchen and Storage on
29 January 2010, with 1 comment so far.
While Gillian and her family underwent a full kitchen renovation, they opted to keep their culinary home airy and their above-counter space clear of cabinets.
But, half the cabinets means half the storage, so came up with a solution to keep the headroom they’d hoped for: “Instead of adding the upper cabinets we had avoided, we sunk a set of six half sized lockers into the wall between our kitchen and powder room. The lockers not only provide ample food storage space, they have made organizing simple too. We now have a baking locker, a canned goods locker, a kids snack locker and even a (locked) liquor locker.”
Say that last one three times fast.
The utilitarian storage approach actually integrates quite well into the rest of the space. If you can’t cut a huge hole in your wall to accommodate a bay of lockers, this steel tool chest approach spied by Remodelista accomplishes a similar aesthetic.
[Read more about Gillian's Kitchen makeover at Apartment Therapy]
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