From Fishing Tackle Box to Kitchen Island

by Michelle Leslie

There’s just enough space in our tiny little round house for a kitchen island, but there’s no way I’m paying so much money for one – have you seen the prices? It’s ridiculous!! So we made our own.

from fishing tackle box to kitchen island, kitchen design, kitchen island, painted furniture, repurposing upcycling, Kitchen island from a re purposed fishing box

Kitchen island from a re-purposed fishing box

Yup, we took a fishing tackle box, an old office cabinet and turned it into a kitchen island for our tiny little house by the sea. Even our cats thought we were mad.

Jazz is not impressed

Before - all the bits

This is what we started with. A beautiful old fishing tackle box with tons of little storage compartments and a really sad office cabinet with no handles and a very wonky door.

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After - our new kitchen island

And this is what we made. We stripped and sanded. And then we sanded some more. Filled in lots of holes, fixed that wonky door and added new hardware and some wheels. My cuz made us the forken handle and the beautiful graphic on the back is from the Graphics Fairy.

So much hidden storage

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Fwi2567253 on Sep 19, 2016
Way cool. Such ingenuity. Ilove it!

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- Michelle Leslie on Sep 20, 2016
  Thank you so much
  
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Monique Daviau on Jan 12, 2017
Luck and genius made this great, my hats off to your minds, unbeilvable gourgeous

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- Michelle Leslie on Jan 13, 2017
  Thank you so very much Monique
  
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