Some people call this "upcycling". I call it "playing".
After about an hour of tearing off the outer shell of the machine my hands looked like this:
But my reward was this cute yellow spring:
(All these pictures were taken with my phone so excuse the quality.)
I have no idea what I'll do with it, but it's not every day that one discovers a giant yellow spring whilst taking apart one's washing machine, so I'll probably keep it as a souvenir.
After some prying, a little unscrewing and lots of banging this is what I ended up with:
This is the view from the top:
Enter more banging, some grumbling and some help from the husband and the father-in-law.
And then I found this!!
I know. Pretty uninteresting, but it's a cute little shape anyway.
Up next came strenuous scrubbing with this:
Along with some of this:
At which point it still looked like this:
Which was not acceptable, so I borrowed my dad's power washer and blasted it.
Then I spray painted it with metallic silver paint.
Put two can lights in it and set it on the ledge above my coat closet.
I think it looks pretty sweet.
Particularly the swirly patterns of light it throws.
This is the view from the top of the stairs.
Oh. I topped off the rough edged metal pipe thingy with a silver doo-hickey from the local handy-man store that I think actually has something to do with a furnace part.
But it totally worked for my purposes.
I bet I'm the only person in my town with a gigantic washing machine drum nightlight.
It's the little things that make me happy.
B
2 comments:
Thats awesome!! Very pinterest worthy!
Vacation is always nice, but I miss you when I'm gone. I'm glad you got this made, because I've been excited to see how it was going to turn out. FAB!!!
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