Front doors and cable reels

I would love to paint our front door.  At the moment it is red.  Unfortunately it does not have any beautiful detailing like my friends front door (pic above)

But I may steal their colours and paint it white and grey which will match the rest of our house.

 

I love the doors to their kids bedrooms, they are matching and have gorgeous coloured glass.  I could only dream of a door like this as our house is not this old.

 

Beautiful !

So one day I will paint my front door. 

 

But for now we have been doing small little projects around the home like building a new guinea pig cage and a coffee table for our back deck.  The coffee table was made from the cable reel I found in a skip recently.  Husband went to Bunnings a few weeks ago and bought the castors for it.  On Sunday my daughter and I stained it with oil and then husband drilled and fitted the new wheels.  We enjoyed a champagne that evening watching the sunset before dinner - it was quite lovely. 

Here are the pics.....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So there it is.  Another project crossed off the list.   Yay !!



Old windows and a Free Cable reel

I am always on the lookout for old stuff

I was very excited when I got these old windows a few months ago at an op shop

My new windows

 

I could not resist. 

Though I did walk away the first time (did you hear that dear husband) it was only after speaking to my neighbour and her telling me I am mad to not buy them, I went back and got them 3 days later, knowing full well my husband would not approve of my purchase.

I love old windows and there are so many ways you can use them

My new cable reel

 

I also love old cable reels

I never thought I would be able to get one of these, let alone for free.

Yes it was "FREE"

 

But this time I am not in trouble with my husband - for bringing home someone elses rubbish. But only because I got it for free, which makes it even better don't you think !

All following photos are from Pinterest

 

  They can be made into great things as shown in all these photos 

Maybe a coffee table/book shelf for example

Or a padded stool

A Dining table topped with stainless steel or maybe glass

Paint it white

A sweet Occasional table

Even an Umbrella stand

 

I got mine from a skip - a local school was having a clean up over the holidays and I just happened to come across it.  I looked around for someone to ask "can I have this"  but there was no-one there.  So I went to the house next door to the school and asked if they knew anything about the rubbish in the skip (I don't give up easily).  He didn't know anything about who was in charge of the skip but said it should be okay to take it, and who was I to argue ?? So the lovely man even helped me get it out of the skip and load it into my car.  Woohoo, my very own cable reel.  I have so many other projects I want to get onto, but this one should take priority I am thinking. I think painting the reel white, adding some groovy castor wheels it will go great with my new white Adirondacks!

  

And here are just some of the ideas I have seen on Pinterest for old windows

 

A coat rack

Or a photo frame

or combination blackboard/pinup board/shelf

 

I would love to be able to make them into a cupboard but don't have the handyman skills for that one. 

So best to keep it simple I think, stay tuned for an update on these two projects (thought it may take me a while).