Monday, January 31, 2011

Magazine Monday: Fruit wall hangings

This week's project was inspired by THIS blogger.

I have been working on sprucing up the kitchen. I bought a 3-pack of flat canvases, painted two of them gray, and used Mod Podge for the first time ever.
They were really fun to make, super fast, and I think they turned out great. My only dilemma is whether they look a little too 'country' for the space. I'm not really going for that look. I'll let them stay until I get some other decorations up and see what I think. I may use the same technique, but with different subject matter. Who knows.
I have another project waiting in the wings for that light fixture :)

In other kitchen sprucing, I have been making a trip to the container store each month to pick up some organizers a little at a time. I could spend WAY too much money in that store!
We don't have an abundance of cupboard space, and we're trying to work on food storage, so we added 4 GORM shelving units from IKEA, figuring they'll be useful in a garage or basement someday. The only problem is that it is all open shelving, so I want it to look as neat as possible.
It is still a work in progress, but here are 6 finished shelves:
Recipes on top, pasta, rice and oats all on display (love that those containers are only $2 or less!), and the breakfast shelf.
I was hoping for some rotating can shelves, but the price was right on these and we can store so many more cans now. Yippee! Up top are dish towels and snacks.
We can finally hang our brooms and the plastic bag holder to make room for our recycling basket below (couldn't get it in the picture).

5 comments:

Tammy said...

Those are really cute! Great work!

Lara said...

Nice! Doesn't it feel so good to get organized?? I wish I had that feeling more often (which means I need to find time to reorganize!!). I love the wall hangings!

SydneyMin said...

Wow! Do you make home visits?? lol

Ranger Tiff said...

You are doing such cute, fun things around the house!!! We still need to chat on Skype. Hope you guys are doing well!

Steve and Heather Jaussi said...

Em, you are so amazing at decorating and organizing! I love your fresh ideas. Where did you get the shelves for the cans? Great idea. Miss you!