Basket love continued...

Hi Everyone!  Happy Thursday!  The weather this week has been wonderful, so not like Iowa in January or early February.  It's been in the high 50's or low 60's for three days.  But we are expecting not so great weather this weekend.  Rain, ice, snow and wind.  I'd take some rain, but the rest can just stay away.

I want to share with you what I came up with last Friday, but didn't finish until last night.  Not that it was a difficult project, I just had too many other things that I needed to finish.  I drew up the plans on Saturday and located all of the wood I was going to use, but didn't get it put together until last night.  I got it painted and ready for pictures, but it was late so I didn't get it staged.  And I just couldn't wait to show you.  Do you remember the baskets my friend Keith rescued from becoming a pile of metal?  If not, you can check it out here.  Well, this is what I did with a couple of them.

So what do you think?  And I have the perfect place for it in my bathroom once I paint and move some things around.  I made the ladder out of reclaimed pine and the rungs are from an old wooden closet rod.

 I almost forgot to take any pictures of it before I painted it.

I painted it with a base coat of gray.  And the top coat is Annie Sloan's Chalk Paint in Old White.

 Here's the base coat.  I just sort of slapped it one, not caring how it looked since it's the base coat.

 And here it is after I painted it with ASCP in old white and then sanded it with my mouse sander.  The basket is hanging by four white hooks.

 I decided not to put rungs where the baskets are at.  I think it makes it look more like a re-purposed broken ladder rather than something I made.

 I sanded it pretty heavily to reveal a lot of the gray base coat, especially on the rungs.

I still need to put a coat of sealer on the baskets.

I'm really happy with the way it turned out.  And while I was waiting for the paint to dry so I could sand it, I opened up my latest Pottery Barn catalog and look what I saw.  I swear, I did NOT see this before I made mine.  But how funny is that.

Pottery Barn for $279.00

I like mine better because it was FREE!  I didn't have to buy anything to make it.  Everything was already on hand.  And the baskets were saved from going to the dump!  I like that the basket numbers are facing forward on mine so you can really see what they are.  So what would you have made with those baskets?  Have you ever made something and then found it later in a magazine or catalog?  Thanks for stopping.

Linking to:

http://redoux.blogspot.com/2012/02/friday-link-up-party-41-and-les.html

http://www.megandmums.com/2012/02/saturday-splendour-no-9.html

http://www.positivelysplendid.com/

http://petitehermine.blogspot.com/ 

 http://my1929charmerblog.com/sundays-best-par-tay-17/

http://craftomaniac.blogspot.com/2012/02/craft-o-maniac-monday-link-party-with.html

 http://www.northerncottage.net/2012/02/northern-cottage-party-time-linky-some.html

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http://blah2beautiful.blogspot.com/2012/02/tell-it-to-me-tuesday-6-linky-party-and.html 

http://farmhouseporch.blogspot.com/2012/02/cowgirl-up-linky-party-starts-now.html 

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http://www.notjustahousewife.net/2012/02/show-me-what-ya-got-60.html 

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http://savvysouthernstyle.blogspot.com/2012/02/wow-us-wednesdays-52.html 

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http://delectablehome.blogspot.com/2012/02/show-tell-linkup-party-2.html 

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Basket love....

Hi Everyone!  Yeah for the weekend!  (Although I do have to work today.)  I want to share with you what happened yesterday morning at work.  One of the guys came sneaking around the front window at work carrying a load of things under both arms.  It took me a minute to realize what he had and once it registered I jumped out of my chair and made a beeline to the door.  Look at what he had...

And they were for me!

And they were FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

You all know how much I love free things, but can you believe this haul.  A couple of the guys took a load of old water heaters and radiators to the Sanitation and as they were waiting to unload them, Keith looked over and saw that they were about ready to smash these babies.  He jumped out and ran over to the guy running the machine, got him to stop and asked if he could pull a few things out of the pile.  He saved these babies from becoming a pile of metal.  Keith knows exactly what I might like.  He's the guy that saved my kitchen island cabinets from the dump.  He's the guy that gave me an old trunk because he thought I might like it.  He's always on the look out for interesting things.  Thanks a bunch Keith for rescuing these!

Now, what to do with them.  Too many ideas, not enough of them.  What would you do with these bad boys?   Would leave them as is (only cleaned up) or would you paint them?  Hope your weekend is enjoyable.  Thanks for stopping by.