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One day in an uncharacteristic bout of fitness enthusiasm I was out on a walk. After an hour of powering along the Brisbane River, I was winding through my neighbourhood on my way home and I passed an old wooden wardrobe door leaning up against a retaining wall on the side of the road.
Of course, I stopped walking and wandered over to inspect this discarded, somewhat useless item that someone had clearly placed there for anyone who wished to take it. The door was just made out of cheap pine and looked like it had been there on the side of the road for awhile. So I decided that I didn't need it, trying to convince self that I didn't want to turn into one of those people who just collect all manner of random useless things and never do anything with them, and I kept on walking.
Not five steps later, I had a brilliant idea, ran back and grabbed the door and carried it half a kilometre home, which garnered a lot of weird looks from people.
I sanded it back, bought some paint and turned it into a whole new amazing blackboard, for just under $30. It currently lives in my lounge room and is always adorned with favourite quotes and song lyrics. I have also been known to use it for birthday wishes for my housemates and friends and particularly exciting countdowns (like Christmas).
xo
PS Props to whoever can tell me what song the current quote is from. I need song title, artist and album... GO!
Dreams, Fleetwood Mac, from Rumours!! :) Love it.
ReplyDeleteWoo!! Love it too!
ReplyDeleteNice door makeover! My mom and I just did this with a coffee table from the second hand store. We sanded it down and painted the legs and edges robin's egg blue and painted the tabletop in chalkboard paint. My sister and I are taking it to our new house next month. Chalkboard paint is so much fun. And apparently they make whiteboard paint as well, I need to try it!
ReplyDeleteThat sounds great! I was axtually thinking just the other day that this would also make a good coffee table. All I would have to do was attach some legs and paints them. Although I think it is too long for my current lounge room. I'd love t see a picture of you coffee table, ZuZu!
ReplyDeleteI'll post one on Facebook sometime soon here, along with the dressing table I'm working on...that one is more work than I bargained for :-P
ReplyDeleteI always do that, think it will be a simple job and then end up spending hours and hours and hours on it. Perhaps it just means we are optimistic, ZuZu.
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