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January 4, 2018

How to Make An Easy and Stylish DIY TV Console with Wood Boxes

How to Make An Easy and Stylish DIY TV Console with Wood Boxes | redleafstyle.com

Inside: Create an unexpectedly stylish DIY TV console to store your electronics. Wood boxes star in this super affordable repurpose project. This post contains affiliate links. Joanna Gaines would not approve of the jumbled maze of cords linking all of the electronic devices on the dresser we use as a TV stand. Because there’s nothing farmhouse chic about a knot of cords. As someone who chooses looks over function, I struggle with how to incorporate electronics into a room’s style. (Gimme a beautiful, impossibly uncomfortable tufted armchair over a bulky recliner any day.) If I had my way, the TV would magically appear when I need to binge watch The Crown and disappear when I want the living room to look like a picture in a magazine. But I’m no Harry Potter. And if I want to watch Game of Thrones, I need a TV. So, we recently mounted the TV on the wall. While the TV looked great, the old dresser that we used as the TV stand now sat awkwardly empty with just the DVD player and the Apple TV on it. Oh, and the mass of cords. I tried to fix the problem by styling the...

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October 9, 2013

5 Ways to Use Wooden Boxes For Storage

We all need to store stuff. So, why not make all that stuff look good at the same time? Wooden boxes are one of my favorite creative storage solutions that serve a purpose and that look attractive. You can pile about anything in them and they make a jumbled mess of stuff much easier on the eyes. Here are five of my favorite ways to use wooden boxes for storage. How to find wooden boxes for storage: Scour thrift stores and Wooden crates 1. Declutter your bathroom Bathrooms tend to get unorganized—and fast. Brushes, make-up, q-tips, towels, toothpaste, lotion. It all turns into a big mess over the bathroom counter. Corral all of your bathroom products in wooden boxes for quick and easy organization. I like to stick smaller items like nail files and razors in mason jars to keep them together. Then, I place the jars in wooden boxes. It keeps everything nice and organized. My bathroom doesn’t have a lot of space, so I store wooden boxes that hold my bathroom supplies in a hallway linen closet. You could also mount boxes on your bathroom wall for rustic hanging storage. 2. Create freestanding shelves Turn wooden boxes of...

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