Adding colour - simple DVD tower make over

I love all the ideas out there about adding colour to the inside of furniture

Like this from House to Home


And this from iheartorgainsing


I wanted to do something myself but wasnt keen on the idea of it being permanent so shied away from painting. So i followed House to Homes suggestion of using wallpaper. I also decide to not attach the wall paper permanently so i could change it if i didnt like it.

So this is what i was trying to liven up, our 4 Ikea Benno DVD towers. Nice but very plain.

And this is what i ended up with - so much better!


I just used wallpaper samples i got from the local DIY shop, cut them to match and slid them inside the DVD towers. I took the back panel off one of the stands and used that to cut everything to the right size, so there was not constant re-trimming needed! The items in the shelves mostly hold the paper in place but i used some repositional glue dots where they werent so secure.

This is what they look like in use. I just love them, its such a subtle way of adding colour and pattern to a room and even better it was free!!!

Recovered Bathroom Storage Drawers

This is my last post of orgainsing fornight(ish), i'm going to finish off a few more things on the list over the next few weeks (months?) but ive acomplished even more than i thought i would so im officallly closing organising fortnight(ish) with this bathroom storage makeover. I hope you enjoyed my posts ive really enjoyed getting all those little jobs done, its so satisfying :)

Lovely BM and I have some very functional but very boring white woven plastic storage drawers in our main bathroom. They do the job but i dont like how they look so i decided to recover them with wallpaper scraps.

As they'll be in the bathroom i also wanted to cover the wallpaper with sticky back plastic to make it slightly more water resistant.

So first off i cut my wallpaper to size

The i cut some sticky back plastic so it was slightly larger than the wall paper

And covered the wall paper with the sticky back plastic, folding it over to protect the edges of the wall paper.

I then folded the covered wallpaper up over the drawer and fixed it in place with some foam sticky tabs.

I repeated the process for the other drawer and also cover the top of the unit in the same way.

I covered another spare drawer with some coordinating wallpaper for a bit of variety.

I think they look really good, a definite improvment.
On the other shelves are a little plastic basket for more bathroom stuff and a bread bin i spray painted which is our medicine cabinet. Love the final effect, practical but pretty!

Box Dividers from Cereal Boxes

Organising week has shown me that although i was pretty organised, nearly everything already had a place, the organising once stuff was in its designated place was not great! I had a storage box full of my stationery, pens, rulers, glue, notepads etc, which i had to root around in each time i needed something. So, inspired totally by this post at I Heart Organising i decided to tackle the stationery box!

I cut down some cereal boxes id been stockpiling for this purpose and then, using double sized tape, covered them with these fabulous wallpaper samples id had for-ever.

Covering the boxes was bit fiddly, im not the most exact person in the world so some of my wallpaper is a bit wonky but its only for me to see so im not bothered!

Having everything separated out is so much easier and its looks so much prettier!

Amazing sticker wallpaper

I saw this amazing wallpaper made out of individual stickers on the Craftzine Blog ages ago and its been in my head ever since. I just think its so clever and really beautiful, and i love things that look like they're one thing but turn out to be something else. I showed it to my lovely boyfriend BM the other night and he wasn't as horrified about the idea as i thought he might - always a good sign! Maybe, with a little work on BM, its an idea for the littlest room in our next house...