apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time

Nice post. I keep a bowl by the door that hold giftcards and coupons. We stash work receipts in an ice bucket that would never otherwise be used. Laundry trash (lint, used dryer sheets, etc) gets thrown in a shiny tongue depressor container.

Re-purposing is always a fun idea!

I'm more interested in where that mail holder is from... in picture 1.

The segmented is a California Job Case used for type when typesetting was done manually.

I've always used an antique silver toast rack for sorting mail. I'm not sure whether the white rack in the first post is a modern-day version of that, but it looks like it could be.

sholt, it's a repurposed plate rack from the Container Store.

I use a goldfish bowl for spare change - I used to keep it in my bedroom, back when I had a bedroom with a mantelpiece, but I'm trying it on my landing strip now, along with a little CB2 snack bowl for my keys.

I like that plate rack! I'd been thinking of using a bowl, but that's quite clever -- and more spacious than the average mail sorter.