I just can't resist making boxes to keep stuff in. It's part of my recycling and re-use passion. I find these great cardboard boxes and midify them to make them into units of shelves and drawers that fit into them. Incredibly useful and almost free (they just need some sticky tape to hold them together, and optionally some sticky contact paper to decorate them). I use old cardboard from the backs of exam pads, and old cereal boxes etc etc. Cannot describe the satisfaction. I must be crazy - but it's a very fun sort of crazy :)
I finally did the very adult thing and bought some REAL furniture. Made by some folks from Zimbabwe (and can we help but feel for anyone from Zim these days??) who came down for Festival this year and put their stuff by the side of the road. They were sitting making it as I stopped; makes such a nice change from everything being mass-manufactured from China! I bought about eight of these. Note, ummm, how they are also boxes..... lol :) Very good looking in a salt-of-the-earth sort of way and slightly rickety (had to stabilise with a little wad of folded-up paper under one leg; see pic) with grass-woven baskets. I just love them.
I just can't resist making boxes to keep stuff in. It's part of my recycling and re-use passion. I find these great cardboard boxes and midify them to make them into units of shelves and drawers that fit into them. Incredibly useful and almost free (they just need some sticky tape to hold them together, and optionally some sticky contact paper to decorate them). I use old cardboard from the backs of exam pads, and old cereal boxes etc etc. Cannot describe the satisfaction. I must be crazy - but it's a very fun sort of crazy :)
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