My new ironing/cutting surface
07-18-2015, 10:50 AM
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My new ironing/cutting surface
I had an old dresser in my basement. I had a big desk in my sewing room that seemed to always be used for piling stuff on. In summer I did my pressing on the back porch. In winter I did my pressing in the master bathroom. I did my cutting on top of the hottub in the back porch room, summer and winter. Clearly something needed to change.
My lightbulb moment came when I realized the dresser was several inches taller than the hottub, and I was getting backaches when cutting. I needed to make the dresser into my cutting surface. So if it was going to become my cutting surface, why not my ironing surface also?
And if I am going to have that, why not have it in my sewing room rather than a desk that just collects stuff on top of it? Thus the plan! Fix up the dresser, make a new reversible top and trade it out with the desk! I decoupaged the drawer fronts with pictures from gardening catalogs.
Here are photos of the finished project: The ironing cover looks loose but I am able to tighten it with the drawstring; I just didn't do it for the photo.
My lightbulb moment came when I realized the dresser was several inches taller than the hottub, and I was getting backaches when cutting. I needed to make the dresser into my cutting surface. So if it was going to become my cutting surface, why not my ironing surface also?
And if I am going to have that, why not have it in my sewing room rather than a desk that just collects stuff on top of it? Thus the plan! Fix up the dresser, make a new reversible top and trade it out with the desk! I decoupaged the drawer fronts with pictures from gardening catalogs.
Here are photos of the finished project: The ironing cover looks loose but I am able to tighten it with the drawstring; I just didn't do it for the photo.
Last edited by wildyard; 07-18-2015 at 10:55 AM.
07-18-2015, 09:50 PM
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Very clever... you wll love this. I had a similar dresser, but the large drawers were falling apart..I opted to refinish the skeleton of the dresser rather than paint it...kept the two smaller drawers and put wicker baskets in the "shelf" spaces. They hold my 1.5, 2, and 2.5" scrap strips. So easy to toss left over scraps in... one of the small drawers holds my pressing aids; the other some small blocks, i.e. HST's....
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