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Making Use of Old Kitchen Drawers
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Townsend Walton
(IC: homeowner)
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Doing a total remodel of the kitchen left us with a lot of old drawers. With some paint, some cheap tile and stuff around the house, the drawers became great outdoor shelves and added to the fun of the back yard
These were the old drawers from the kitchen we remodeled. Certainly they could be made into something
Take off the handle and sand the best you can to get the varnish roughed up
I added a piece of 1x4 for an additional shelf and painted it exterior green
This was a deeper drawer, again I added a 1x4 for an additional shelf and painted it with an exterior yellow.
I glued some tile that I got for under $4.00 and added some garden fairy figures along with some polished stones. I mounted it on my backyard fence.
You can put all kinds of things in these drawer shelves, a plant some stuff you have around the house. They are fun to make and they look great outside hanging on a cedar fence
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Published March 20th, 2017 9:49 AM
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Karen Hyde on Aug 03, 2019
Love those flamingo trays!
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PJ on Aug 09, 2019
Adorable!!! This is one of my favorites so far, when repurposing drawers!
& I have ALWAYS ALWAYS just loved gnomes! Got to make me another gnomes home!!
Great job!
Thanks for sharing!
Marni
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Townsend Walton on Aug 09, 2019
It was fun to do. We loved finding little things and placing them in the drawers. May you have a wonderful new Gnome Home
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BRILLIANT! This is one of the more clever uses I've seen to repurpose drawers. Are they attached to the fence posts? I suspect the pickets wouldn't be strong enough, but I want to use this idea this spring.
It'd be delightful behind the veggie patch, maybe with herbs in pots on the shelves.