Professionally Upcycled Furniture#
I love making things, and sometimes I get the chance to give great items a new lease of life. This time, I wanted to show some love to this water-damaged set of drawers. I bought some fancy tiles from B&Q to transform this dishevelled piece of storage furniture.
As you can see, I used what is known as a “brick bond” pattern to add more visual interest to the drawers than the original “stack bond” arrangement. This means the joints do not line up vertically, but are staggered instead.
The tiles were attached to the inner surfaces of the drawers using a flexible tile adhesive. It is also important to use proper grout between the tiles. This helps support the tiled surface and reduces the risk of the tiles being jolted loose when a drawer is closed too hard.
I not only made the set of drawers more aesthetically pleasing, but also designed and built a matching shoe rack. If you look carefully at the bottom, you will see that I used wooden dowels to create feet and a lap joint to add further visual interest. The screw holes were concealed with wooden dowel caps, too.
I stacked the furniture pieces on top of each other to dry in the sun.
A few years later, the completed set remains a stylish addition to the home. It is a pleasure to look at rather than an embarrassing afterthought.
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