Another ducktape flower & Before and after file cabinet

I have made another duck tape flower. This one is for my friend and her garden. She wanted one for her birthday and I was happy to obliged.

I had to take a picture of it with my other one, just so it wouldn't be lonely.

Pretty huh :) I so love duck tape.

Ok on to the before and after.

So this is the before. An older metal file cabinet. Pretty heavy duty one, could probably withstand a nuclear explosion.

So pulled out the drawers and did some painting and......

TADA!!!!! outdoor seating with storage. You'll have to excuse the tape at the end of the cushion. I haven't got around to sewing it yet. I wanted to make sure no bugs could crawl in. The lid is hinged and found wood. The file cabinet was free, and so was the wood. The cushion I already had. So all this cost me was the paint. I added the mustache because it makes me smile and I needed to man up the deck a little.

I have one more filing cabinet to play with. Hmmmmm what to do, another planter or storage or something completely different. We shall see.....until then.

Old File Cabinets ReDo

So what do you do with an old, heavy, extremely loud filing cabinet? Continue to us it to gather clutter because do you really need to file that much stuff?

I say NO! How funny. The best part is they are free! Free is my favorite number, in case you didn't know. So now the problem....

I have two sons and a husband who often run over my pots with the lawn mower. So I think hmmmmmmm file cabinets could survive a nuclear bomb it should handle them. I rip out the drawers find a funky color to play off the army grey and spray paint it. Put some holes in the bottom and now I got me a giant planter that can survive anything!!! I think I'm going to plant a pizza garden. You know, tomatoes, basil, oregano, green peppers and stuff like that. So anyway I hope it inspires some one out there to re purpose something they usually through away. Paint is amazing!! ps. my taping skills need improvement.