There’s a show on HGTV called FreeStyle. I’ve never watched it, but from what I understand, the concept is that professional designers and decorators go into someone’s home and completely redo their room without spending any money. They repurpose pre-existing items and rearrange things.
Like I said, I’ve never seen the show, but I used that very concept today to do some FreeStyling of my very own.
In my bathroom I have a set of hooks that attaches over the door frame. I originally put it there to act as a towel rack, but I really don’t have a practical use for that sort of towel rack in my bathroom. I have enough hooks and racks already, and it was looking unsightly.
I tried to figure out what else I could possibly use it for, when I realized that I have had the perfect use for it for a couple years now and had never realized it. I gathered up the items I needed and went to work.
I took a cardboard box that was ready to go out to the trash and traced the hook segment on it. I cut the cardboard out and with nothing more than some transparent tape, attached it behind the hooks to give myself a back piece to the item.
From there, I went online and did a Google search for some images I wanted to use. This is part of the project where I broke the rules a teensy bit. The point is to spend no money at all, but after finding four pictures that would work for my project, I ran to the drugstore and printed them out. (Yes, I realize it’s technically illegal to use someone else’s image without their consent, but gimme a break. I’m not selling this thing for profit.) After getting back with prints in hand, I also traced them and cut them out.
From that point, it got really easy. I attached some more transparent tape to the backs of the photographs, and mounted them onto the cardboard in the little windows made by the wires of the hooks.
At this point I had my very own Marathon themed set of hooks. What could I possibly need with a Marathon themed set of hooks though?!
I now have a homemade and artistic way to display all of the Marathon medals I have earned over the past few years. Up until now they’ve just been sitting on tables or hanging from curtain rods. Major upgrade with this little apparatus!
So, barring the $1.16 I had to spend on printing up the pictures, I am considering this one successful FreeStyle!
Love it, Nick! Looks awesome!!
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Nice re-use!
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