Simple Fix for Furniture Backing

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These little guys can help your furniture.

Yeah, yeah.  I know they say right there on the box they are for carpet.  But, wait!  Check out how to do a quick fix on your furniture.

Have you ever moved a heavy piece of furniture (especially across a carpeted room) and the backing comes loose?  If you are like me, your first thought is - "Who Cares?", it will just be smushed up against the wall.

As crazy as it sounds, that cheap, thin backing does more than just cover the back.  In most cases, it does help keep your furniture in one piece and square.

While I was moving those tall pantry cabinets to my garage yesterday by myself and I noticed one of the backings was coming off.  Since I used these on several projects to attach thin lauan to furniture, I grabbed the pack and fixed the cabinet in just about thirty seconds.

Next time you are rearranging your furniture, be sure to keep a small packet of these carpet tacks in your junk drawer, right next to the small nails you use to hang pictures.

Go from this....

To this...

How crazy does it sound to feel like you accomplished something just by tapping a few tacks on the back of furniture?

Have a great week!

Karen :)

Organizing the Basement Workshop

Pin It I spent under $100, but gained several tools, supplies and time by organizing my basement workshop.

Here are a few of the mess - aka The Before:

Added shop lights (which had to be the best improvement in my opinion).  Now I can see where the tools and supplies are located.

Added peg board (it was spray painted black, but started as the drab brown).

Added those little peg board holders.  Note - they are in the closet section of the hardware store, not where they sell the peg board.  Added $1 tubs to the upper shelves to store items too big and bulky for the board.

Now everything has a home and there is room to grow.  I still need to label the bins since I can't remember what is in the 20 bins, but I figure this is a big improvement so far.

Reused old floor tiles from the kids old playroom.  Makes the concrete floor nice when standing for a long time.

Bins underneath all have a theme - electrical, tiling, hardwood flooring, plumbing.  And there is room from some of the tools.  However, once I get the saws and a workbench up in the garage (to keep the sawdust out of the house) this layout may change.

Yay!  And the winner for most productive weekend goes to this project.