Moving Furniture To A New Room To Reinvent It
- By Alyssa Davis
- Published 12/24/2011
- Home Management
- Unrated
Many people have one particular piece of furniture in their home that they don’t wish to part with, even if they no longer have any clue as to what they can do with the item. With changing lifestyles, many of the old traditional pieces that you may still own no longer fit in with the modern home. For example, if you own a roll top desk, it may no longer work for your purposes because it is not designed to accommodate a computer.
You can, however, reinvent old furniture by finding a new use for it elsewhere within the home.
Where can the roll top desk now fit in your home? Do you have room for it in your kitchen? If you can spare the floor space, this desk can fit in a country kitchen, becoming a great place to store your cookbooks, recipe cards, kitchen utensils, spices, and more. You can definitely benefit from the additional drawer space and cubby holes that the roll top desk provides. They can be used to store away your kitchen linens.
Homeowners can get creative with reinventing items to suit their needs. For example, a louvered door can be reinvented to create a dramatic headboard for the bedroom. Or a room divider that will define the space between the dining and living rooms in an open floor plan. A library table can be repurposed into an ideal coffee table with a few modifications, li
ke shortening the middle section of legs. This table, with its drawers and lower shelf, can be the perfect coffee table because you can stash the remotes in the drawer, and store your magazines below.
A trunk or cedar chest can also be reinvented when moved to a new area of the home. These handy items are not just for the bedroom. An old, weather-beaten trunk can be a wonderful accent in your family room or living room. A cedar chest can be the perfect ottoman to prop your feet up in the family room. Tall cedar chests can be used in the foyer or entryway to add a country appeal to the space where you welcome guests.
Unmatched chairs should never be thrown to the curb. They can be repainted and used in various areas around your home. It is convenient to locate a chair near the entry to your home to use for sitting down and removing shoes or boots. You might also bring the mismatched chair into the bedroom, painting it to coordinate with your existing décor. You might place mismatched or unmatched chairs in the patio room to work as plant stands. Placed in the bathroom, a chair that doesn’t have a home elsewhere can provide an easy place to sit for various reasons.
The idea of reinventing your furniture to allow it to be used in multiple rooms takes a bit of creativity on your part, but with some imagination you will find that there are multiple uses for furniture that may seem, at first glance, useless.
You can, however, reinvent old furniture by finding a new use for it elsewhere within the home.
Where can the roll top desk now fit in your home? Do you have room for it in your kitchen? If you can spare the floor space, this desk can fit in a country kitchen, becoming a great place to store your cookbooks, recipe cards, kitchen utensils, spices, and more. You can definitely benefit from the additional drawer space and cubby holes that the roll top desk provides. They can be used to store away your kitchen linens.
Homeowners can get creative with reinventing items to suit their needs. For example, a louvered door can be reinvented to create a dramatic headboard for the bedroom. Or a room divider that will define the space between the dining and living rooms in an open floor plan. A library table can be repurposed into an ideal coffee table with a few modifications, li
A trunk or cedar chest can also be reinvented when moved to a new area of the home. These handy items are not just for the bedroom. An old, weather-beaten trunk can be a wonderful accent in your family room or living room. A cedar chest can be the perfect ottoman to prop your feet up in the family room. Tall cedar chests can be used in the foyer or entryway to add a country appeal to the space where you welcome guests.
Unmatched chairs should never be thrown to the curb. They can be repainted and used in various areas around your home. It is convenient to locate a chair near the entry to your home to use for sitting down and removing shoes or boots. You might also bring the mismatched chair into the bedroom, painting it to coordinate with your existing décor. You might place mismatched or unmatched chairs in the patio room to work as plant stands. Placed in the bathroom, a chair that doesn’t have a home elsewhere can provide an easy place to sit for various reasons.
The idea of reinventing your furniture to allow it to be used in multiple rooms takes a bit of creativity on your part, but with some imagination you will find that there are multiple uses for furniture that may seem, at first glance, useless.
Alyssa Davis
This article was written by Alyssa Davis of Metal-Wall-Art.com who specializes in creating uniquely stylish interiors with abstract tree metal wall art and palm tree metal art.
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