A while back I did a little DIY project which brings me so much joy it’s slightly worrying. I made me some beautiful thread drawers. Yes, that’s right, thread drawers. They’re a thing. And mine are my favourites!
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| The boring "before" |
It began with a set of these little Moppe drawers from IKEA, and of course a snoop around Pinterest to see what other creative folk had done with their Moppes. Then, a little white paint, some little card holding drawer pulls and a few tiny labels later and voila! Behold!
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| Me beautiful drawers |
I used to keep my thread all jumbled together in a massive dented biscuit tin, which was fine I guess but not very practical. The drawers, however, are practical AND pretty. So much joy in such tiny drawers. Of course I arranged the thread by colour, then ordered the colours through a spectrum from white to beige to brown to black to dark green to green to yellow to orange to red to pink to purple to blue. Specialist threads got their own drawer (there’s one little solitary spool of silk thread in there currently).
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| Organising my rainbow of thread while the drawers dried |
Needless to say, I love the finished product! Happy Ree, over and out. x
Ooh this is a lovely idea, where do you get those cute little drawer pulls?
ReplyDeleteThanks, Zoe, these little drawers have brought me a lot of joy! The little drawer pulls are from Amazon here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kaisercraft-0-5-inch-Treasures-Antique-Silver/dp/B00BBKW4S4/ref=sr_1_1?s=kitchen&ie=UTF8&qid=1420053390&sr=1-1&keywords=Kaisercraft+0.75+x+2.125+x+0.5-inch+Treasures+Metal+Label+Pulls%2C+Antique+Silver . Quite expensive but it was really hard to find drawer pulls little enough. They are really meant for crafting rather than for actual drawers, but they work great on drawers this size!
DeleteThat's brilliant! What a great idea.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Lynne! I'm tempted to do another set for notions and other small bits!
DeleteThat's gorgeous! What a great project :) I thought I recognised the label pulls - I work for Kaisercraft, so I know them well!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Danielle! Ah how funny that you recognised the label pulls straight away! They were the only ones I could find that were small enough. I just super glued them on though, didn't want to put too much strain on them since they're not supposed to be actual handles. They're holding up really well!
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