I have always enjoyed the look of the old stepback cupboards but not the price, so I decided to create something similar on my own.  I found the top piece of this cabinet at a garage sale.  I found the bottom piece in the PennySaver http://www.pennysaverusa.com , It is an old bottom kitchen cabinet.  I screwed both pieces together.  I then took the doors off the bottom piece and painted the entire piece the same color. Once again I invaded my old knob collection and I found some large old glass knobs that I orginally found on http://www.ebay.com/ and used them to complete the project. The whole project cost me less than $100, way better than the $3000 dollar price tag on the cupboards I've admired at antique shops, and every item I used had a previous life. Even the paint, although not previously used,  was left over from a previous project. :} The top portion has made an awesome  storage area for unsitely media cases.


TIP:  Old knobs can be used over and over again, if you find one that speaks to you...keep it and use it again somewhere else.

So this was my problem:  After years of putting up family pictures, by the time we moved into our current home I had a large collection of pictures and frames. My kids love the pictures of themselves and their sibblings lining the walls.  But I don't, it drives me crazy, too many different colors, too much mishmash.  I love the look of  all the same or similar frames on the wall but I didn't have the budget to go out and buy all new frames.  I decided I would use the frames I had.  I painted all of my frames white with some paint I had leftover from painting the trim in my house, distressed them and then added all kinds of embellishments I have collected over the years (garage sales, friends, thrift stores,and furniture which had been junked).  I also reprinted my pictures in a black and white/sepia/washed out colors format. I! now love my family pictures and the wall in my livingroom