beautiful junk

Monday, 6 May 2013

Revamped Sideboard

My neighbours were throwing out this sideboard!.... it was in pieces and missing the top and door inserts, it is now one of my favourite things. It lives in my dining room with a selection of other found bits and pieces, I estimate this whole section cost me around $10....Thanks Ken & Pam!

Rainbow Clock Shelf

I picked up this grandfather clock for $10.

It's not an antique or anything like that. In fact I think it may be from 'Home/Copper Art'. It was a little bit daggy and old fashioned, so I decided to trash it....

...and here it is in Caspers room. He named it the rainbow clock, and helped with the painting.

Shelf of scrap

Finally got around to hanging my little shelf, made from scrap bits and pieces...

Saturday, 4 May 2013

So! I have been collecting doors, any old door I come across gets stashed in my yard. I just love old doors.

A also had a crappy old bunnings garden shed, that I wanted to convert into a creative hive.
Here is the shed and some of the door collection...

The idea was to rebuild the tin garden shed using the found old doors, I thought it was going to be simple, just attaching timber to timber, i have built stuff before, no probs.... so we moved the old shed and set about leveling out the existing base....

It seems I have no idea how to build the base of a structure (in a safe kind of way) and the thoughts I had in mind on how I was going to assemble to frame with wood offcuts from under my neighbours house were not going to cut it, either was my 'renovator' tool.

After realising building the frame and roof were way beyond my capabilities Marc took over and my Dad got in on it as well. I have misplaced the pictures of the next stage, but a sturdy frame was put together with a kick ass roof, I just held measuring tapes and pieces of wood and tin in place....