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Does it show that I'm obsessed with repurposing and have way too much time on my hands?! :P I came across this – it might be easy enough to knock something together in the same style without having to break out the power tools!! http://www.organizeit.com/poquikcloset.asp These pine shelving units are fairly inexpensive and the shelf positions are adjustable – when my son was little I used to leave the top space quite big and run a bungee rope around the top to hang his clothes from. I was able to adjust it back to normal when he graduated to a wardrobe :P http://flickr.com/photos/hoonynoo/1262698526/ Seaweed lamps – aren’t they beautiful? :D http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/05/01/...lp-constructs/ Great idea for those old punctured inflatable sofas and chairs…. OK this one’s full of rubbish, but I think it’d look really cute in a kids room filled with squishy stuff like soft toys, cushions etc. http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/05/20/...garbage-chair/ Decoupage gone mad…. This is stunning (and so is the price tag LOL)…. But is anyone else thinking aluminium foil?!! http://mocoloco.com/archives/005596.php Paper flowers – a few garlands of these would really brighten up a little girls’ room http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/20...r_flowers.html IRISH green DIY website :D http://greendiy.ie/wiki/ If you have a check in any of the two euro shops, a lot of them do those big PVC zip-up bags with handles – they’re great for toys etc. and they often have nice colours & patterns (see pic). The other pic is just an idea for re-using the big 5 litre water bottles - I cut a lump out of the top and fill them with the various cleaning stuff I need for each room, that way I only have to grab the relevant bottle for whatever room I'm doing. |
Wow magiceight, you are a mine of information, thank you so much!
I collected the keys today, unfortunately the council haven't done everything they were supposed to so I have to go back to them tomorrow, nothing major though and I'm going to buy paint tomorrow and get quotes for flooring etc.... exciting times ahead! Thanks to all for suggestions and kind words. I have as suggested made a 'wish list' in wanted! Fairly long list lol :) I'm going to take some before pics tomorrow so I can show ye all what I'll be doing, kiara x |
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thanks chris! and magiceight iv know added half of those to my favourites, thanks again, my 1st project... the bottle ends curtain!
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Just a few more, and some more pics I had saved (again, not my own work) :)
Floppy disk art… http://www.georgehart.com/sculpture/...obulation.html Lightbulb oil lamps… http://www.66degrees.com/#/pid=1085 iPod cases from reclaimed vinyl 45s and audio cassettes… http://www.coolhunting.com/archives/...ipod_cases.php Cassette tape hand bound notebook… http://flickr.com/photos/kateblack/2642023005/ Cassette tape wallet… http://www.superuse.org/story.php?title=Cassette-Wallet Beautiful driftwood horse sculptures… http://www.ecofriend.org/entry/gallo...ed-drift-wood/ Bottle top art & scrap plastic sculptures… http://www.recyclethis.co.uk/2008052...-sort-of-thing Bottle cap bowl… http://www.ecofriend.org/entry/craft...ttle-cap-bowl/ Amazing shadow art from piles of rubbish… http://chepchumba.wordpress.com/2008...ng-of-rubbish/ Recycled blanket floor rug… http://www.layersuponlayers.com/recy...ie-into-a-rug/ Tin can luminaries :D These can be made by filling the tin can with water and freezing it – then, wearing gardening or other protective gloves, hammer lots of little holes in while the ice is still frozen. Thaw it out when you’re finished, and voila! (p.s. I so want one of those fire bowls….) http://johntunger.typepad.com/artbuz...t_heart_t.html Excellent trash art… http://weburbanist.com/2008/06/15/7-...trash-artists/ http://www.financialhack.com/entrepr...from-trash-art http://www.tomdeiningerart.com/ Things to make and do with your recyclables… Wastepaper wastepaper bin… get it?? http://kaywoodfurniture.co.uk/index....oddb=9&pid=641 Placemats… http://keetsa.com/blog/recycle/recycled-paper-placemat/ Newspaper yarn… http://greenupgrader.com/2138/handsp...ewspaper-yarn/ Another ‘wastepaper’ basket… http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/sf/l...ebasket-050277 Mirror/picture frames from recycled magazines… http://www.greatgreengoods.com/2007/...azine-mirrors/ Recycled magazine bowl tutorial… http://indiefixx.com/2008/04/22/tuto...magazine-bowl/ Recycled paper laundry hamper… http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ny/t...-pier-1-025776 Gorgeous tin can lanterns… http://keetsa.com/blog/eco-friendly/...-recycled-tin/ Tin can mirror frame… http://reviews.cb2.com/7259/4780/reviews.htm |
Kiara - I've just had a lovely idea for making some decoupaged furniture or storage boxes for your daughters' room - why not use pictures that she's drawn? This would be lovely with old pages from school copybooks etc. too but she's probably a bit young for that!
This is the closest thing I could find when I googled 'homework decoupage', but you get the idea... http://fashionminute.blogspot.com/20...-homework.html (edit:) Found another example using childrens' drawings - http://www.flickr.com/photos/2066961...7603821975182/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/20669612@N02/2008583670/ |
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Shop is a four letter word. Wooden poles, steel poles, mop handles even vacuum cleaner pipes (cant remember if they even have a name) all make excellent clothes rails, towel rails etc. And they are regularly discarded so easily come by in JT, skips, recycle centres. In fact they are often much better then the flimsy rails you buy in hardware stores that are prone to bending when you hang too many clothes on them in a wide wardrobe. All you need is a hack saw to cut it to correct length. You dont even need fittings. 2 short lengths of wood with a v-notch cut in the centre of each and screwed to the wall will give a much stronger support for a wardrobe/clothes rail than almost any fitting you can buy. |
thanks again magiceight, you should start a thread of these, I'm sure plenty jtowners would try some of these out, I'm gonna have to leave crafts until after we have the house ready and furnished (basically livable) but then I'm getting started on some of these, I was shocked at what could be made using stuff that goes in our bins everyday! Kiara x
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Just wanted to show you all what we're working with! It's not a pretty sight at the moment but we WILL get there!
1; bathroom 2; boxroom (will be nursery) 3; alcove in box room 4; alcove in what will be my daughters room 5; our room 6; stairs... after I'd scrubbed and scraped off an awful border :) 7; sitting room 8; sitting room floor 9; hall |
I love the blue and purple that you've picked :)
Hey, looking at those alcoves - for a temporary wardrobe solution, you could buy lots of those little hooks with the sticky backing, and hang one hanger on each one? I did this years ago with all my bags, scarves & necklaces... the hooks might be strong enough to hold little clothes :) You could put a hanging curtain of paper flower garlands or beads n' stuff across the front. |
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ha ha no thats what we're painting over! The bathroom will be a kind of sand colour and my daughters room will be the 'groovy chick purple' and bubble gum pink! I took these when all we'd painted was a few ceilings! But honestly if you actually saw the walls they are awful we had to scrub them and use plenty filler before we could even think of painting! Kiara x |
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i think lighter colours will make the rooms look bigger maby she might like a few balloons painted in her favourite colours lol you could use those sample boxes and save a few euro or put pictures up in those colours
my daughter has a pink and lilac girl Ellie but in the end we had to repaint her room as it was closterfobic with the colours she choose now she has bedding and pictures with her colours and the room looks so much bigger |
LMAO Kiara.... I thought they were freshly painted! Still nice colours though :)
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I actually had this thought myself but even though she's only 3 Zara is a very opinionated little girl but in fairness to her she really has her head screwed on! I let her pick her own colours as I know our 2nd baby is going to make her feel a bit weird for a while, with such big changes all at once for her I want her room to be one thing she has complete control over, Kiara x |
Aw bless her :)
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Yes she's really cute (if you tell her this she just says yeah i know!) But she can be very bossy! I don't mind though if she's happy so am I! As you can see from the pics all we can do until the flooring is done is paint so hopefully that will be sorted soon, waiting on a grant for it though, hopefully it won't take too long! I forgot to take pics of kitchen, I'll do that and the garden tomorrow! kiara x |
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That was all the scrubbing, it was funny actually when people called and saw we were cleaning they were gone fairly quick! Why does nobody mind painting but everyone hates washing walls? I've been politely thrown out anyway apparently I shouldn't be doing things like that 'in my condition!' I never realised pregnancy made me redundant! |
Make the most of it while it lasts kiara, you'll be back working hard soon enough once you have 2 kiddies running about! I wish you the very best of luck with your project, but once the painting and flooring is done everything will seem to fall into place after that, believe me I've been there.
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Hiya Kiara, I think the problem is you shouldn't be overstretching. I did that when I was pregnant with my first. I was living at home & mam was so good to me I decided to decorate her sitting room for her. Stripped the wallpaper & started washing the walls. I felt like my stomach was being ripped out of me literally and was told by the doctor afterwards that I was very lucky that I hadn't damaged or lost the baby (who's now a healthy 17 year old!!!). Thank God it didn't happen but it taught me a lesson - don't be a martyr.
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Hey Kiara, I was in the exact same position four years ago, with a one year old boy and a three year old girl. Trying to furnish and otherwise make a house liveable with no partner and two babies toddling around. There were concrete floors and bare plaster walls. Not even a lick of horrible paint I could paint over lol. The grant I received was paltry and hardly supplied half of what I needed - in fact, if it wasn't for my family, I'm quite sure I'd still be walking on stone floors! Do take whatever advantages you can - St. Vincent de Paul, Community Welfare Officer, MABS even! JT can be a great help to you right now. Just remember, as long as you have somewhere to sleep and something to cook on, you'll get by if you have to. If you can't find any old lengths of pole for a rail in your alcoves, you can always use curtain wire...cheap as chips and will at least last until you can find something a little more permanent. Choose your floors wisely - I picked any old thing at all to cover the concrete and regretted it in the end. I'm still trying to replace it all. I have the kitchen, sitting room and hall floors replaced...one room every few months is my aim.
As for curtains and the rest of it...I had cardboard boxes celotaped to my window in my bedroom for a while lol..not pretty..but it done the job and at least I could get changed without worrying if there was someone seeing me! Actually Argos do some really nice bamboo blinds for 7.50 each and they can be cut to size with a scissors! I have them all over my house now. If you have floorboards upstairs, sand them down and varnish them up...they look fantastic. Your local carpet showroom will have offcuts of lino for half nothing for your bathroom floor. And you can get paint cheap enough in your local hardware stores because some tins are mixed wrong and the person they were intended for refused them. Take advantage! Instead of buying expensive curtains, buy unlined ones and use old bedsheets to sew some lining into them. If you need to cordon off a part of your garden, or need to erect some fences, you can use pallets - free from any place. Simply take them apart and put back together inside out! I think that's your lot lol...my brain is shutting down now... |
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Oh my god, you really were put through it, thankfully things are starting to look up for us, with help from family friends and fellow jumbletowners we will get the basics done soon, and everything else we can work on gradually. I hope things are starting to come together for you now and that you like your home. One question though can you pm me about MABS I don't know what they do? Did you know that if your not happy with your grants you can appeal? Kiara x |
Gillo and bluecurlygirl, I know I shouldn't be doing too much... but tea duty? lol! Ah no I know they're just minding me and everyone really has been great, it's just annoying that I can't do a whole lot when I 've been waiting for this for so long! Kiara x
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Well K, you are looking for garden ideas ... I have the best idea ever.... you can come and help me do mine and that will give you lots of practise ha ha , and by the time baby number 2 has arrived you will be an expert. We built a new house and have been living in it 2 years now, i have a big garden loads of plants and trees that i have been collecting and growing but lack the expertise to turn mine into the wow factor..... Diarmuid Gavin if you are reading this please come to Clones or any other like minded gardening experts.... you can have a free reign...
K, i replied to your thread in your wanted add re: material.... let me know sometime take care Summersun |
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Well as I said, when I moved in, the house was a total empty shell and I kinda bought things on a whim thinking 'oh they'll do' when in reality, when I stood back and had a good look around, I didn't like it at all. So I worked on replacing things gradually. I had blue, white and grey lino in the kitchen which worked well with the royal blue carpet and blue, white and grey walls in the sitting room - open plan - but I quickly grew sick of looking at such bachelor colors, so I painted cream with red trims like red silk curtains and some canvas pictures. I recently built a wall to seperate the open plan kitchen and sitting room as I hated it with a passion! So now my kitchen is black and cream - black floor tiles with a center mosaic in black and white, which only cost me just over a hundred smackers cos I know a guy who works for right price tiles. A black glass and leather kitchen table and chairs for fifty quid in kavanagh's in newbridge - a veritable goldmine of a place - and some new kitchen presses from my partner's sister as she bought a new kitchen and wanted rid of her old one which was perfect! As I said before, my family have been a great help to me, and recently bought me a new washing machine, cooker and fridge, on the condition that I pay back 25 quid a week. I painted the window wall black and the rest cream, so that's the kitchen done! All I need to do is hang the beautiful pine door that a JTer so kindly gave me. The sitting room floor has been changed to some antique pine laminate and the three peice suite I had - which was totally buggered due to children hopping on them - I replaced with the help of the travelling community who gave me a suite on the premise that I pay them in monthly installments from my children's allowance. The carpet in the hall - a biscuit color was soooo not the right choice - has been changed to cream tiles with cream and brown center peice - approx 80 quid from my friend at right price tiles! I still have plenty left to do - my kids rooms were built totally wrong, with my son basically having two chimney breasts in his room, because they thought it would be nice to put an alcove in the other room for a wardrobe, which would be fine if his room was bigger than a postage stamp! (Council houses!!!!) So I'm knocking down my daughter's alcove and building my son a nice new STRAIGHT wall in his room lol and then I can paint and redecorate their rooms. It's hard going, but every couple of months, when I see one more room taking shape, it heartens me for the scrimping and saving for the next one! I think it helps a lot that my partner is a painter and one of my best friends is a carpenter! lol So to your question about whether I love my home... I do now. Will PM you regarding MABS. Hope my tale of slogging it out with my own home gives you a bit of relief in that you're not the only one out there trying to get things done and achieving it slowly... xx |
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Delighted you are getting keys to your new home. I hope you and your family have a great Christmas and keep in touch as I am not forgetting baby clothes. Kind regards, MaryG |
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Thanks Mary, Not long now once I have my scan I'll let you know, Kiara x |
Whoo hooooo!!!!!!!!!!!
I got my grant today and I was shocked and delighted at how much it covered! Anything I've collected on jumbletown that I won't need now will be passed on (on jumbletown of course!) thanks to everyone who has helped us and happy new year to all, Kiara xxxx
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That's great news Kiara, thrilled for you :D
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Most of what went into my house was bought new as most of the furniture on here was too far away, I did try some of the craft ideas though and will post them on another thread but I think it's time to close this one, x
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