31 Ways {Day 4} Re-purpose Those Cabinets!

Welcome to Day 4 of our 31 Days project!  Thanks for stopping by.

Today's "Do" is - Reuse and Re-purpose.

We like to re-use and re-purpose as much as we can.  We turned an antique washstand into a kitchen island.  Before that, we used a pair of old cabinets to make a coffee bar in the breakfast room.

One of our DIY projects was to remove a pair of cabinets from the laundry room.  They were narrow and very tall, and I couldn't reach them.  We stashed them in the shed, figuring we'd eventually do something with them.

That something was a coffee bar.  Joey used a 2x4 to make a base for the cabinets to sit on, cutting the corners on a miter saw.  He screwed the cabinets together, and added a piece of plywood to the top.  We used few pieces of leftover tile from our counter-top project and a couple of coats of paint, and we had a coffee bar!  Total cost:  $15 for a fresh tub of grout and a piece of molding.

If you don't have any cabinets lurking in your shed, take a trip to your local Habitat Re-Store or a local salvage yard.   You'll save yourself some money and reduce the amount of usable materials in the landfill.