Malm Hack

 I wanted to customize the Malm units so I ordered the "Caci" overlay from  O'verlays and “diamond” knobs from Amazon for them. The possibilities for this are endless!

Knob Patterns

Silver Overlays

Black Overlays

I had many scenarios, as you can see, but chose the one below.

I spray painted the overlays black and glued them to the top drawers of the units

 

I made a paper templates for the knob pattern for easy replication, and  used a small drill bit and drilled the holes into the drawer fronts and attached the knobs.

I am very pleased with my "custom" Malm pieces!

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Cardboard Safari

I wanted to add funky colorful twist to my Family room, so I ordered the Safari and North American Sets on Cardboard Safari

Safari Set

North American Set

I ordered them in white and had my children customize them:

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Shoes Galore!

This is the story of MY LIFE!

I have an abundance of shoes and purses with a HUGE deficit in storage.  

I decided to take over my Linen closet and convert it into my own shoe closet.The closet is compact (2x2) so I needed to utilize every inch of space.

I purchased 3- 4 tier expandable shoe racks for the back wall (64 pairs total) and 1 – 12 tier “Over-the-Door”Shoe Rack for the adjacent wall  (36 pairs total).  So now with100 pairs of shoes on the walls and out of the way, I was able to store an additional 17 pairs under and on the floor of the closet.

To store my clutches I purchased an “Over-the-Door” Handbags-and-Purses organizer and hung them up on the inside of closet door.

On the last wall I nailed up 2 thin ropes horizontally and picture hangers for the bottom row, and hung up all my belts.

This only took care of 117 pairs of my shoes and my clutches so all my boots, flats, sandals, and purses are still in my main closet, but I am still very pleased with my little shoe closet!

 

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Nail Head Frame

My Sister wanted a framed contemporary art for the living room of her 1^st apartment.

I searched online and found this picture and ordered poster size print.

I had an old black frame in my garage, but it was just too plain, so I went to the dollar store and bought a box of thumb tacks and hammered  them into the frame. 

The total cost came out to $13, and my sister loves her new art piece.

"Lack" of Storage

I needed a dresser for my Son's room and we were in serious need of storage in the upstairs hallway (since I converted my linen closet into a shoe closet) 

I converted 4 Lack shelving units and16 Ikea Vessla StorageCrates into 2 "dressers"

I stacked the 2 lack shelves horizontally and connected them with the 3 flat metal brackets.

I removed the wheels off the Vessla crates and used the Dremel rotary tool with the metal cutting wheel attachment, and cut off all the raised portions on the bottom of the crate so it would be completely flush.

 

I inserted all the crates in to the opening and they are a perfect fit! Voila- 2 new dressers!

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Art Gallery Hallway

Our upstairs hallway had just plain white walls and I wanted to liven it up.

My children have PLENTY of art work to display so I decided to turn our upstairs hallway in a their very own “Art Gallery”

 

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...and then there was Light!

I added a Light Socket 2-Tap Converter adapter into closet light socket and plug in Ikea Hemma cord set to illuminate lower part of closet

Now I can see all the shoes and boots easily!