Getting Organized by Repurposing and Upcycling From Home

Getting Organized by Repurposing and Upcycling From Home. 


Hello, and Welcome to Second Time Treasures! Glad to have you here, and hope ya'll are having a wonderful week so far. The time of year is coming for me, and maybe for some of you too. End of year, holidays soon over, winter time, and I will soon be getting cabin fever...not a whole lot can do when it is cold out, and sometimes have snow too. Things will soon be slowing down around here after all the fesitivities, and I will then be looking around at everything. House walls will start to come in a little closer, and I will realize since I cannot paint anything yet that I need to get more organized. Honestly, I feel that way a lot with organizing, but I have been looking at some things to maybe help me out a bit, or give me some wonderful ideas to do. 


So, my favorite things of repurposing and upcycling will be able to help with many of my organizational tasks I will be planning out. I have found many others doing it, and they have also shared many wonderful pictures along with sometimes a tutorial on how they did it too. We don't always have to go out, and buy new to fix things around the home. We sometimes have things right in our home that we don't consider, and can be used. Many of us hang onto different things thinking some day I might find a use for it, or also the feeling of you just hate to get rid of it...you never know. This is one of them times to use some of them things. 


Have any extra tea cups from a mismatched set, coffee cups, mugs, saucers, and etc? Use those to separate things in maybe a drawer, and organize them. For instance paper clips, pins, tacs, staples for that good old stapler, tape, and just different things like that. 


There are many ways to organize the walls, and your spaces with things you have sitting around too. Using some tin cans...paint them or add some mod podge and paper to them to decorate for the area you would like to use them with. They can also be hung too. Use some old desk, or dresser drawers to organize with as well. Something I have been seriously considering lately...since I have enough of them, and will see them when thrifting too is dressers. Oh yeah. They can be used for your tv consoles, pull drawers out to make room for the dvd player and such, and don't forget....those drawers can be used in other ways too. I have seen some dressers repurposed for the kitchen as an island, seen them in the bathroom to organize as they are, or by adding sinks and such to them too.


Below I will show you only a few pictures I found to hopefully help you create maybe what would work for you. There is much to see out there on the internet, and with different places. If you have a day where you can just roam for a bit, take a look, and find some things to spark your imagination. I have found that some of the blogs have been helpful, and also at pinterest.com many are tagging things there of interest too. 

I can see putting 3 baskets, bowls, pie pans, and such together making something like this myself. Great for serving of food, but also for organizing of things in the bathroom, kitchen, office, bedroom, and so on. I got this picture from organizerwomansday.com

Something so simple, but oh so organizational too! here is showing how coffee cups, creamers, glasses, and trays come be helpful when organizing them smaller things you have. Not only the bathroom, but the kitchen, office, and your bedroom would be great with this too. I found this picture with apartmenttherapy.com

I forgot to mention how some of us maybe need to organize for our gardens, or the tools we use. This is a dresser that has been repurposed for such a task. Neat idea, isn't it? I found this on pinterest.com which it originally came from addicted2decorating.com. Hmm....the possibilities!

Here is a way to use some of them dresser, and desk drawers that you took from their original places. Or, maybe found when thrifting and junking too. Drawers can be hung to the walls and used as shelves, they can be mounted, they can be cut to then attach to the walls with the fronts facing everyone, I have seen some big drawers that were used as little night stands next to a bed, and the possibilities are endless with this along with other things too. This picture came from consignmentphinds.blogspot.com


As you can see there are so many possibilities to use to organize our homes, our little spaces, rooms, and etc. With some of them we can give our own little touches to them to work with our country homes, shabby homes, cottage homes, beach homes, and so on. I hope this helps you with some ideas of what to do with organizing. As we all know, seeing something can often give us our insights we need to serve us. So, have fun with it everyone!:) Thanks so much for visiting with Second Time Treasures! Always a pleasure to have you, and see you again soon. Take care, and Happy Holidays everyone!:)