Clean House: The Art of Repurposing

The other day while I was in my hideously messy basement I found myself looking for items to purge. I absolutley loathe my basement, and you will not be seeing a picture of its atrociousness.


However, I did stumble across three of these. What is it? A plain, white, plastic crate. Nearly every college student has owned one of these babies in their lifetime.

While looking at the crate I began to think about how I could use it elsewhere in the house, when I remembered my sister gave me the leftover fabric from this:

Kelly made curtains to match Naomi's room and we were able to remove the ugly wooden doors. Hooray!



So, I located the leftover fabric.

But, I wasn't sure if there was enough to complete my project. So we dropped Naomi off with Grandma and Grandpa and my honey and I went off to Jo-Ann Fabrics. I believe it is every man's dream to accompany his wife to a crafting mega-store :)


While we were there, I bought this fabric, which also matches Naomi's room.


So the past few days while my baby was:

I would work on my project.

But I could only work on it for little bits of time because otherwise I would have to deal with this:

Once my project was finished, I was able to transform the mess under the changing table in her room to look like this!!





( She still isn't sleeping in her crib, but never fear, once she is I'll remove the stuffed animals)

Thank you Clean House for teaching me the art of repurposing!!