A craft cabinet is repurposed for kitchen storage

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Today is Thrifty Style Team! That's when a bunch of fellow thrifty-lovers share our decorating and DIY ideas with YOU! Thrifty is always the key word!


Below are the bloggers who participate in these thrifty project challenges each month. We've added a few new ladies for 2018. If you are looking for project inspiration that is budget-conscious, following these bloggers can be a great resource for you as you strive to decorate your home on a budget!

On to today's project: a Repurposed Craft Cabinet

Today I'm excited to share a craft cabinet that I turned into a kitchen cubby display for my ironstone and Rae Dunn collection.

Several years ago, I was passionate about scrapbooking and paper crafts. I had a sweet little shabby chic craft room and filled it with beautiful and affordable storage for all my goodies.

This little cubby that I'm sharing today started off life as a Making Memories craft and ribbon storage cabinet. Can you spot it hanging on the wall below? I think I bought it at Michaels for about $60. It was perfect for my needs then! Lots and lots and lots of precious memories were made in this room with my sweet little girl!


I left paper-crafting behind when I became a blogger and became passionate about something else - home decor and easy DIY projects! Plus, I had nearly 20 bulging scrapbook albums completed and was ready to move on to something else!

Being the thrifty chick that I am, all my craft storage came with me when me moved and has been repurposed in various ways. In fact (case in point), see that shelf running along the top of the room in the above picture? That's the piece I was talking about when I made this name sign with rusty letters!

Several years ago I painted the white craft cubby in a fun custom tiffany blue color and used it in my kitchen to display my growing collection of ironstone.


But our new kitchen called for something more muted so I opted to paint all that turquoise white and to give the outside of the cabinet a medium gray color.

I used colors from Dixie Belle's chalk paint line. I love how smooth this paint goes on. It's creamy and has very little odor! The colors I used were Cotton and Manatee Gray. They are a perfect compliment to the grays and creamy whites that I already have in my kitchen.


And...hello...how awesome do my small ironstone pitchers and Rae Dunn mugs look! I was pretty excited when I realized that my Rae Dunn mugs were a perfect fit for the cubbies!


This was a quick, easy and inexpensive project that adds a lot of charm to my kitchen! I guess it's true what they say about looking at the items you own with an open eye... could you reuse something in a different way than it was intended?

Could you use a dresser as a bathroom vanity? What about an old kitchen table as a desk?

You get the idea...repurposing items is a great way to decorate your home thrift-ily and get a custom look that no one else will have!

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