Cheap Repurpose: Small Things Storage Melbourne

Cheap Repurpose: Small Things Storage
Melbourne

There has been some obsessive re-purposing of vintage kitchen ware into small storage containers in our home this year - see earlier efforts. However, the boyfriend recently complained of being overwhelmed by kitchen stuff throughout our apartment. So out of respect, we did not purchase a stack of 70’s(?) wooden serving platters and bowls on a recent trip to Savers. Instead we will vicariously share our vision for them and hope some of you will enjoy.

Ideas:

The serving platters with sections would make great landing strip storage for keys as each person can have a separate section so things don’t get mixed up.

They would also work well in a bedroom to store jewellery and other small ‘things’, or a home office, think paper clips etc.

Our other thought was to use a single small bowl as a soap dish in the bathroom. If you want it to last, you would need to coat it with a waterproof seal.

The great thing is these are so cheap and abundant at thrift/op-shops. Savers had lots of sizes and shapes from all under $8. Savers is a huge second hand chain store with 5 stores in VIC, Australia and many in the States and Canada.

[ Images from Wood Universe, kattuts treasures, rebuildabox ]

Comments (7)

I saw an awesome one at West Elm that looks like part of a tree trunk. I can't find it on the website, but it looks like the picture in the link...just concave on the inside to put trinkets in it:

http://www.westelm.com/online/store/ProductDisplay?partNumber=WE-PRODa503&storeId=17001&langId=-1&catalogId=17002&viewSetCode=E&parentId=WE-SH1ACCROO&retainNav=true&cmsrc=WE-SH1ACCROO

posted by ckayindc on October 21st 2008 at 5:56am
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NOOOOOOOOOOO. . .dont tell people about savers!

posted by raddlesnack on October 21st 2008 at 7:08am
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my wife uses old heath ashtrays for her jewelry...

posted by redneckmodern on October 21st 2008 at 7:31am
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what are savers? i love these wooden trays! where can i find ones like this for cheap?

posted by lemonpie on October 21st 2008 at 8:54am
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savers totes itself as the "thrift department store"

posted by animalhouze on October 21st 2008 at 9:11am
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Savers sounds awesome... cant wait to check one out!

posted by Johnny P. on October 21st 2008 at 10:54am
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Savers is known in some parts of the world as Value Village - its the antichrist of thrift stores! Savers is a for-profit organization that associates with local charities so they can appear as a charity store, whilst actually giving less than 1% of profits to charity. Less if you donate to them directly.

posted by pinky speedway on October 21st 2008 at 12:17pm
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