Recycling Holder

Hi!

It's Friday, Friday!  (Gotta get down on Friday!)

We are getting a bit of snow today- anywhere from 10-20cm (4-8").  Schools closed 2 hours early.  It's so unusual to be able to see the bare ground at this time of year.  I think a lot of people are actually wishing for snow!

I worked on a small project this week. I built a trash can/recycling holder.

To use up some leftover wood- 

from our old headboard,

the wainscoting in the old front room,

and the leftover tongue in groove boards from the front room ceiling.

We keep our paper recycling and refundable bottles/cans in the two plastic trash cans to the right of the armoire pantry.

I always thought they could use a little something to make them look better.

So, I built a little something.

I used plywood for the back and sides, paneling for the front and top, and edged it with tongue and groove.   It's open on the bottom. I was even able to use up the 2x3's from the old headboard for the framing inside.

I decided to paint the paneling with chalkboard paint and kinda "black-wash" the boards with watered down paint so the wood grain still shows thru.

It looks better than this right? ;-)

I still put the same stuff in- the cutlery box, 

the Kreg Jig shelves, 

and the plastic trash cans (without lids). 

Here it is opened up.   

There's enough room to open it with the basket shelves above and I can easily remove the trash cans.

 I think it'll stay dark for a while, but I may paint it lighter sometime...

It's actually Saturday now (I had to wait for better light to take my final pictures) and here's the snow we got! Pretty!

I think we only got about 5-10cm (2-4").

Hope you're having a great weekend! :-)