One night a few weeks ago, I was riding my scooter home off the subway and I noticed this wine crate outside of a liquor store near our apartment. In typical scrappy fashion, I picked up the crate and took it home, with no idea what I was going to do with it. When I walked in the door, Sean and I looked at it for a minute and then Sean had the idea to put it over our microwave as a shelf. Things had been piling on top of each other for a while, so this wine crate was the perfect way to add some kitchen space. 🙂
The first thing we did was clean the crate with 409. We did get it off the street after all. 🙂 (I need to do a post of all the scavenged street/things in our apartment. It’s pretty crazy. 🙂
Since we didn’t have any stain, we darkened the wine crate with a bit of coffee and balsamic vinegar. The vinegar definitely worked better.
Before and after:
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We just used 6 nails to secure the crate to the wall. It’s very sturdy and we’ve put some pretty heavy pumpkins on the shelf in the past few weeks. 🙂
Feels like fall!
Gosh! You do such amazing things! I wish I could live in New York like you do… 🙂
I live in the UK and collect unusual teas, Pumpkin Spice Rooibos sounds amazing! Wish I could get some of that here! And I love the shelf, it really works wonders for that space.
I have a whole double, six-foot-tall bookshelf built out of wine crates I found on the street! I love using found things!
sweeet!
looks great! i found one too, gotta shade it a bit. maybe a mix of vinegar and paprika would make a nice color…
and um… i don't know how it work there but my bananas get super-fast-over-rip.
a tip? – if you separate 'em they'll rip slower. the thing is bananas release this chemical which causes near by bananas (and avocados too) to rip faster.
🙂
Coookie Butter!!! mmmm