Our little garage is home to Dan's big truck, and by big I mean BIG, my car, washer and dryer, deep freezer and more. We decided to try a couple of projects to help maximize what little leftover space we have. Someone before us decided to paint this one wall a very ugly shade of brown. I call it doody brown. The picture doesn't do it justice. I gave it a coat of white paint, which I will show on the next post along with the other shelving project.
See the wooden frame with the bags? That was Dan's old solution for a recycling center and at one time worked ok. Problem with it is that it's not big enough. Our city makes us put everything out to recycle in bags. We've had to put paper and glass on the shelf below until we had enough to put it out. I saw an idea out of a book we have for a vertical recycling center and I knew that was what we needed!
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| Before shot |
Ta da!! Daniel built a wooden frame and we spent a kind of crazy amount of money for plastic trash cans to use. We had to buy a bigger one for the plastic that will just have to sit on the floor alone. I love that I can just slip the bag out when it's full and it will take up less space than the old one. Dan's going to have to anchor it to the wall so it doesn't get front heavy, but I can't tell you how excited I am over this thing!
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| A thing of beauty, excuse the mess in the background |
