Water to Wine!

Not really, but I needed a cool title, because today's post is about how I used WINE BOXES to make shelves in my kitchen! Wooo!

Okay, back story. I went to Goodwill the other day (How I love Goodwill!), and they had a bunch of wine boxes. By the way, I love that people literally give their trash to Goodwill. "Hey, here's an empty container from like 6 years ago. You can find a use for it, right?"

Why, yes, yes I can.

So I bought like ALL of them (totally 4, 3 large and 1 small), and it came out to about $7. $7? For wooden boxes? Girl, you must be crazy!

Crazy about THRIFTINESS.

So I actually had NO idea what I was going to do with them at first. I brought them home and almost immediately regretted my decision.

And then I saw it.

That GIANT BARE SPOT above my kitchen sink. All that space, going to WASTE.

I knew then what I was going to do with these boxes.

SHELVES. Lots of awesome SHELVES.

Because my kitchen and my bathroom FAIL for storage space. I mean, my kitchen has a nice big pantry, but it's narrow and I have to like climb into it to get anything. It makes cooking a hassle and I want to be able to just GRAB my spices as I cook.

So I didn't want to just nail them up as is, because it was like this huge canvas with which I could make pretty! So I ran to Joanns and picked up some cheap paint (yellow, orange, and blue all together) and some cheap paint brushes and endeavored to PAINT SOMETHING PRETTY.

More story time. I can't paint. To save my life. I try to paint and it comes out looking like a 3 year old dipped it's hands into a bucket o' paint and just went nuts. That being said...

THESE BOXES ARE MY MASTERPIECES.

Like, oh my God, it's as if the world said, "You know what, Liz, just this once (twice even), we're going to give you adequate ability to paint, so that you're kitchen looks semi-decorated."

So pretty *cries*

So the first one I did, I hung up above the kitchen sink using screws. Mr. H was adamant about screws being better than nails, though I imagine whenever we move from this apartment and there are 4 giant holes in the wall, he will possibly regret that decision.

Though considering I spilled paint all over our closet floor, that deposit may be long gone anyway...that's a story for another day!

So up it went! And I'm keeping soap and pretty things there...though I'm not quite sure what pretty things yet! Ideas, anyone???

The second one had a little addition to it. I decided to use the second one for spices, so it needed an extra shelf. I took the small wine box, which I had tried to paint and miserably failed at and therefore must assume the world decided 2 boxes was plenty of talent wasted on me, and hammered off one of the sides. I hammered out the nails and REUSED them to hammer the box side into the big wine box for a shelf!

God, I'm thrifty. Go, Me!

So I put it all together and hung that box above my stove, resulting in an AWESOME spice shelf! The best part is that the shelf I made from the small wine box was shorter than the length of the big wine box, leaving room for me to also store oils and other cooking items!


It's been a good day.

Peace out!
Mrs. H