I wonder…
If everything has a place, why is the place always my bathroom counter?
Maybe, it’s a pipe dream to think I can be organized.
But among my many pipe dreams, I do have actual dreams…
Fantastic dreams {in color, of course} that include recessed medicine cabinets in this room.
Yikers. Clu-tah, baby!
It gets married and has little clutter babies that make good friends with the dust bunnies and then… woah.
Well, I’m not getting those cabinets any time in the remotely near future…
But, I realized, maybe I could fake it. I’m super awesome at that, yo.
Enter the $1 drawer from the ReStore.
Cleaned her up a tad…
Gave her a coat of paint…
Cut some scrap 1×4’s to size for shelving and nailed those babies in with 2″ nails.
Then, I blessed my own soul for saving the scraps from my Stairway to Heaven…
I had to piece them together for the lower shelf, but it all worked out.
Shazam.
Get outta town, right?
Well… installation was.. um, tricky.
This was my first idea.
UH. Nopes. Looks like Gordon Ramsey’s dog’s dinner…
The problem was that I needed a stud. And the studs were not conveniently located in the center of the mirror, dern them.
Leftover Pallet wood from the Pallet Porch Swing came to the rescue and after a couple of tries, I was able to create a relatively stable hanging mechanism for my little cabinet.
The hemp had to under the board to keep the cabinet from leaning out profusely.
Works for me… {that and a little hot-glue at the bottom to keep it from swaying.. }
It’s the perfect place to store all those little clutter-creating bathroom items…
You know. The ones that refuse to get in line and stay organized?
Shame for shame on them.
Well, now I’ve opened a can of you know what on them and they WILL mind me.
But if they are anything like my youngest guy, the minute I turn my back.
{Good thing I have those eyes on the back of my head, yo.}
Do you have those much coveted recessed medicine cabinets?
Then, I’m totes jellie, baby!
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