I mean look at it! Urgh. As well as my nail stuff (and loooooads of untrieds and partially trieds) there are the instructions for the Nespresso machine I bought months ago, headphones, chewing gum, letters, my laptop, a toy hat from last Hallowe'en, an empty box, an empty birthday present bag...
I then liberated these IKEA drawers from my back room. I've had these since I was a student in the mid 90s. They were full of junk! Receipts and cheque book stubs from the 90s, bits of paper, old pens, my school calculator, some manky old paperclips, flyers for uni band nights, baseball cards from 2003, train tickets from the late 90s.... I had a big throw away session!
Yesterday afternoon I spray painted the drawers gold, and then stuck on some fab enamel dots I found in a craft shop. The dots are meant for card making, so we'll see how well they stay stuck on, and if necessary I can re-glue them. I thought they looked just like nail varnish! I then threw away what wasn't needed, put things that didn't belong on my nail desk back where they should be instead, and reorganised my nail stuff so that everything has a place and most of the bottles are away with the other polishes where they should be.
Here are the finished drawers!
The gold is really shiny in the right light!
Drawer 1 has all my glitters.
Drawer 2 has all the studs and 3D things.
Drawer 3 has all the stripers and liners, and caviar beads.
Drawer 4 has stamping things and striping tape.
Drawer 5 has water decals.
And the big bottom drawer has all the rest - odds and ends, general supplies and so on. On top are my glasses, my nail notepad and my gold heart shaped tin from Maxim's in Paris - this has things like files, clippers, orange sticks etc.
And here's the finished desk! The stripy thing is a glass kitchen worktop protector, which I love. On the left is my giant magnifying glass (my eyesight is going with age!) and my lamp is my uni desk lamp, complete with 20 year old stickers! I can't bear to get rid of that yet!
I'm really pleased with how it all looks. I wish I could have a fancy nail room like some bloggers, but I don't have the space, so this is a corner of my living room.
Looks so much better. Must feel lovely. I hate trying to work in cluttered surroundings
ReplyDeleteThank you! I hate clutter too, but it seems to always creep up on me slowly!
DeleteWow that is just so organised! It looks really good and tidy. And at least your stuff is safe from furry people now ;-)
ReplyDeleteThank you! And yes, my boy seems obsessed with sitting on top of things, so it was getting a bit hairy! Now he just sits on the stripy board, so that's easily cleaned!
DeleteI love it! it looks so neat and tidy, i really like the gold finish you added to it!
ReplyDeleteThanks! Yes, I'm much happier with it now.
DeleteWow this looks fab! Absolutely love the drawers! Wish I had a place like this to do my nails xxx
ReplyDeleteThank you! It's just a corner of my living room, but it does feel nice!
DeleteLooks great! I love seeing where people create their nails and what storage people have x
ReplyDeleteThank you! We'll see how long it stays neat and tidy...!
DeleteWhere did you get your magnifying glass on a stand? I'm the wrong side of 45, and I'm finding my reading glasses aren't always good enough these days!
ReplyDeleteI know exactly what you mean! It's from Hobbycraft, and I love it! It's on a bendy stalk, and has a light in it, and a double magnification spot on one side too. I think it was about £20 ish.
DeleteThanks - off to have a look on their website.
DeleteI think it was this one:
Deletehttp://www.hobbycraft.co.uk/daylight-led-flexilens-with-base-and-clip/591284-1000
Looks beautiful, my nail space is my bed ( very dangerous )
ReplyDeleteThanks! And wow, yes that's a bit risky!
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