File Cabinet Refinish

Apparently I don't have enough storage. Or I don't like the storage I have. Or maybe a combination of both. My basement is dark and drab, it has 'lovely' faux wood walls from the 70's. It needs color, brightness and lots of love. So... I found this awesome file cabinet fabric storage on pinterest. Off I went for a file cabinet to refinish. And I just happened to find one for $20. Perfect! I thought I would have an entire drawer left after I put my fabric in it. You should go ahead and laugh, cause man was I wrong. 

I also forgot a before picture. It was black. Your standard office file cabinet. Use your imagination. ;)

 

 

I spray painted them. The handles are silver, the drawers are a citrus green and the cabinet is blue (I was hoping for a darker blue, but I like it). Everything was primed and then got two coats of color. I used Valspar paint, its my new favorite spray paint. I love how well it coats everything.

Here is the finished project all assembled back together. I love having all of my large pieces of fabric in one place. Before there were some on a shelf, some in plastic tubs and some just thrown on top of my table. Now they all nicely fill all three drawers of my cabinet. They are out of the dust and the cabinet is nice and bright. :)

So look how cool the fabric is. Its all neatly wrapped around hanging folders. I should organize them by color, but honestly I was just so excited to get it all in there. It makes me really happy and I know exactly where to go find what I'm looking for! 

Now I need to get sewing and use up some of these fabric pieces. After all, I need room to make room so I can get more! :)

Happy Wednesday!

I can't believe it is already Wednesday. The week seems to be going by rather fast in our household!

I am lucky enough to have a HUGE scrapping/sewing/crafting space. The wall is lined with shelves and I love it. However, I (like most other crafters I know) am always looking for the perfect storage. There are a couple things that I have perfected for me, so I wanted to share those with you guys. This is an old picture (Grayson is definitely bigger than that these days), but it looks pretty much the same.


First up is my ribbon storage. I had my ribbons all crammed in jars by color (please ignore the ugly brown panelling on the wall). It was great because I could just grab a jar that matched my layout - except my ribbons were wrinkled and wound up getting all bunched up together. So I could never just grab and pull since they all wanted to come out together.


So I spent a few days cutting pieces of heavy cardboard and wrapping my ribbons around them. I absolutely love it this way! I don't have a wrinkle problem anymore and the ribbons are so easy to see and grab from the drawers.

Then there is my small embellishment storage. Prior to this, I had lots of little fishing tackle boxes. They were great, and honestly worked for awhile... but the hinges and snaps had started to break so the boxes weren't closing properly. So I had saved lots of baby food jars in hopes of doing something creative with them.

Baby food jars are fairly indestructable (unless you happen to drop one down the garbage disposal then turn it on - oops) so I thought they would make good storage. The stage 1 and 2 jars fit in the box perfectly too. So I transferred my storage to these. I keep them flipped upside down so I can see the colors/type of items in them. And the box stays in the bottom drawer of my desk - so I don't have to lift the entire thing, just the jars I want to use!

So there are just a couple ideas of storage from my scrap room. Maybe they will inspire some storage solutions for you!