Misadventures in Upcycling and Repurposing Furniture
My Misadventures in Upcycling and Repurposing
“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill Failure has long been a constant in my life. I could ponder on a multitude of theories that might explain why this is the case: I’m often impulsive and leap before looking, hoping to sort things out in the fall; … Continue reading Library Bureau Book Shelf
(Editor’s note: This project appears out of chronological order as a result of a recent discovery of documentary photographic evidence.) Nature is fickle. Nature is temperamental. Nature is difficult to discern or predict; and is impossible to tame. Nature is awful and terrifying, wreaking destruction and carnage. Nature is impassive, indifferent and callous. As a … Continue reading Rescued From the Clutches of Calamity: An End Table Story
Several apartments ago, we (like many modern families) outfitted the kids’ room on the cheap with some shelves from IKEA. Nothing fancy or original, we went with the ubiquitous cube shelves that you find in frugal homes around the world. Standing vertically, astride a beat-up bookshelf-turned-television-stand, these bastions of cost efficiency became home to all … Continue reading IKEA Bitrade 2×4
