A beautiful nine drawer vintage card catalog gets repaired, stained and painted for a fresh new look. #cardcatalog #vintagefurniture #furnituremakeover #paintedfurniture #librarycatalog

I have always wanted a piece of furniture with a bunch of tiny drawers. My mom had a spice cabinet on the wall of our kitchen growing that I would hide all sorts of treasures in. As I grew up I wanted my boys to have something similar. What I really wanted was a card catalog. I have actively searched for one for one for about three years. And the ones I found were either too big or too expensive. Every once in a while I would find a decently priced one on ebay but then I would notice the…

After sitting in our garage for over a year, an old piece of a library becomes my repurposed card catalog - stop by and see how we did it!

I'm totally in love with card catalog home decor and it's my new mission in life to find one. I've seen some pretty killer DIY'd ones, but there's just something about an original and all the history it has. In the mean time, I'm just going to swoon over some of these beauts floating around

I never would have guessed Joan Rivers and I would have anything in common. But there is something we have both loved doing for over thirty years.

For when you need to explain catalog cards to kids who can't imagine how we ever found books before there were computers!

Vintage library card catalog makeover via DIYontheCheap.com.

If you refinish vintage or antique furniture, then you know removing veneer can be a real chore. Using a heat gun makes the process a lot easier.

I'm totally in love with card catalog home decor and it's my new mission in life to find one. I've seen some pretty killer DIY'd ones, but there's just something about an original and all the history it has. In the mean time, I'm just going to swoon over some of these beauts floating around

Vintage library card catalogs DIY upcycled into furniture.