yardstick yearnings ...

I was toying with dubbing today “Silent Saturday” and taking a break …

But I’m a glutton for punishment and will instead declare it “Saturday Show & Share."  A day when I’ll post projects and ideas from diy blogland that inspire me.  Like this piece of furniture ... 

Source:  Corner House Blog

Now how cool is that buffet?  It’s not from a magazine.  It’s a diy! The creative blogger who created this, Corner House Blog …



… gives a detailed tutorial that you can find here. 


Here’s the before …




… and the after …

Source:  Corner House Blog

Seriously gives you a new way to look at yard sale and thrift store furniture, right?  Or even that not-so-loved piece you inherited years ago from a relative ...

And there’s even more creative ways these crazy talented home décor bloggers have been using yardsticks, of all things ….

Source:  Country Living

I need yardsticks in my home.  I need to find them. And stain them. And glue them to furniture and stairs and walls …

This project should be cheap, cheap, cheap.

If I can’t find vintage yardsticks, I can always buy new ones from Home Depot and Lowes and the teacher supply store located not too far from me for like $1 per.  Then I can distress them and sand them and stain them various shades of brown …. and in the end they’ll look old.

Then I’ll just need my miter box for cuts … and some liquid nails to affix … and maybe some poly or furniture wax to finish it off.

I have two potential victims in mind …


This side table is a piece Mike inherited from his family.  It lives in our living room and I had planned to paint it black and distress it a bit when remodeling this area of the house.  But now I think it might also need a yardstick drawer and sides … and maybe a yardstick bottom shelf too.  The current one is in pretty poor shape.


This side table in our bedroom is cheap and “matchy matchy” with the rest of the furniture. But with some yardsticks glued on the top and the shelves (which need a little tlc), it could be something really fun and different ….

Sigh.  My “to do” list just got a whole lot longer …