Card catalog

After sitting in our garage for over a year, an old piece of a library becomes my repurposed card catalog - stop by and see how we did it!

A beautiful nine drawer vintage card catalog gets repaired, stained and painted for a fresh new look. #cardcatalog #vintagefurniture #furnituremakeover #paintedfurniture #librarycatalog

I have always wanted a piece of furniture with a bunch of tiny drawers. My mom had a spice cabinet on the wall of our kitchen growing that I would hide all sorts of treasures in. As I grew up I wanted my boys to have something similar. What I really wanted was a card catalog. I have actively searched for one for one for about three years. And the ones I found were either too big or too expensive. Every once in a while I would find a decently priced one on ebay but then I would notice the…

Card catalog cabinet diy

Vintage library card catalogs DIY upcycled into furniture.

These started out gray, scratched, dented, and rusty. A few simple steps later and thise metal card catalog looks brand new!

We do not have a fireplace in our Michigan home. It's never been a priority on our house wants, but when it comes to decorating sometimes I wish we had one. & on some cold Michigan winter nights I think it would be pleasant to have one too, but at the moment this house just doesn't have one. So what do I do? I get creative & make my own faux mantel. We have this large 'card catalog' in our living room. I say this in ever post about this large piece of furniture, but it's not quite a card

I'm totally in love with card catalog home decor and it's my new mission in life to find one. I've seen some pretty killer DIY'd ones, but there's just something about an original and all the history it has. In the mean time, I'm just going to swoon over some of these beauts floating around

I never would have guessed Joan Rivers and I would have anything in common. But there is something we have both loved doing for over thirty years.

I'm totally in love with card catalog home decor and it's my new mission in life to find one. I've seen some pretty killer DIY'd ones, but there's just something about an original and all the history it has. In the mean time, I'm just going to swoon over some of these beauts floating around