This is month #3 that The Creative DIY Team has gotten together and chosen projects we’ve created to show you. This month’s theme is repurposing.
Team Members
Cassie@Primitive & Proper
Cristina@Remodelando la Casa
Susan@Love Of Home
Brenda@Cozy Little House
I found this old toolbox at my favorite antique mall, very cheap. I painted it with chalk paint and hung it on my dining area wall. The handle makes for a great dish towel rod.
I just used little saw-tooth brackets to hang it up with.
Since I put my vintage cheese grater up on top of it for decor, I thought I’d mention that it is also a repurposed project.
I like to clip vintage photos I find to the cheese grater with a clothespin.
Remember to go visit the rest of the team to see what they repurposed…
Cassie@Primitive & Proper
Cristina@Remodelando la Casa
Susan@Love Of Home
See you next month for another creative team project.
Very clever! The vintage…Love it! Inspired me to try it too.
I love that caddy turned shelf idea. I have just the caddy that will work. Now I have to figure out where I can hang it.
I sometimes see these decrepit toolboxes and want to buy them but I refrain because my house is full of garage sale items that no one else in the family is interested in. But now that I have seen the ingenious use you have made of the toolbox as a dishcloth display centre, I will now do the same in my house (once I locate said toolbox).
You are very inventive. I love your photographs of garden flora.
Great Idea! A pretty towel holder and a shelf! I like that it is vintage .Is the photo of you as a child? just love old b&W photos. Lisa@ Sweet Tea N' Salty Air
No, it's just a photo I picked up at the antique mall.
That is so cute Brenda…this is so you…
Brenda you are SO clever and creative! I adore your toolbox shelf.
I am totally going to be on the lookout for a toolbox to do that with! You are so creative and clever!
That was really clever! I like how you used the grater as a clipboard too. It's always fun to see something used in a new way.
What an amazing, creative idea! Great place to hang pretty towels. I love it very much…
That is a great idea, Brenda! But when did cheese graters become vintage? I still use mine to grate cheese. 😉
Your entire display is impressive. The toolbox towel bar/shelf combo is a great idea, and the clothespin and cheese grater to hold a photo is so simple but creative. And you worked in two themes — birds on the tray and towel, and shoes with the shoe form as well as the shoes on the children's feet in the photo. Fun!
That's interesting because I started making my own wooden tote boxes. The first one I made I use to put my colored pencils and remote in and sit it by my chair. The second one I made I use the handle as a paper towel holder and put my misc. spices in the box part. I am working right now on my third one which after seeing your idea, I will use it for that purpose. Thanks!
Love this series, Brenda. You have such a gift for telling a story with your vignettes. Sending hugs to you and the pups. xxoo
Great idea to reuse a tool box! Love the dishcloth.
What a great idea! It looks great!
Cute project Brenda and it fits right in with your farmhouse kitchen!
What a clever idea. I love it. You got a shelf and a towel bar all in one.
that is so perfect, and you could even use the shelf it creates, too- house some spices or little plants inside! great idea!
What a charming little corner you've created, Brenda! I love how you repurposed the box, but I cannot stop looking at the kids in the pic and that tray? wall art, so pretty!
In a million years I'd have never thought that was a toolbox until you said so; amazing! 🙂
That's adorable, Brenda. I would have never thought of using it that way. I love having places to display pretty dish towels too.