Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Saturday, March 15, 2014
My Polish Rack
So... round about last fall the realization hit me that I had far outgrown my then current nail polish unit. That little shelving system was a repurposed wooden cd rack that I made shelves for out of marble tiles. Although I loved it, it's maximum capacity was only about 80 and soon it was necessary to start mixing the polish just to fit it in and then I began taking up the whole cabinet where that rack was putting new additions to my collection in front of the rack itself.
I started searching for another storage system. After watching countless youtube videos and surveying all the nail polish blogs I could find with people showing their storage system I made the reluctant decision to find and purchase the type of nail polish racks you see at the salon. That decision was reluctant because I wasn't altogether happy with that choice, but couldn't see another way that met the requirements I had in mind. I wanted to be able to see my individual polishes easily, recognize the new ones I wanted to use, not store them on their sides and I really didn't want to decorate my walls with two of these large units that would have left me with no room for my Eiffel Tower portrait or print of "Birth of Venus".
I looked at several of these racks on Amazon and held off from making the purchase because I just wasn't happy with the idea.
Suddenly, one day at the Salvation Army I was struck with a creative solution. I like to check out the Salvation Army and the like once in a while just to see what I can find. In the past, I have found some pretty nice antique furniture and once found a set of paintings of my beloved Alaska. So there I was when I see this little media rack. It was a rough little thing, in terrible condition so there was no way I was going to buy that one, but I knew I could get a brand new one at Walmart for under $30 compared to the near $200 I was begrudgingly preparing to spend on Amazon.
The next weekend, I went to Walmart and picked up one of those little media racks for $27. Accompanying that media shelving unit on it's trip home was a can of metallic silver spray paint. An hour to build it, an evening spray painting it and the next morning I transferred all my polish friends to their new home. It sits in my bedroom, in a corner not far from my pillow. I can see all my colors and create new designs when I wake up, before bed, whenever I want. At night, when I turn my lamp off, my little bottle of glow in the dark polish lights up and I get to see it. I love this unit!
I have had to cover it with a bit of plastic table cover from Walmart. This keeps the horrific Arizona dust mostly off my bottles and eliminates the constant need to dust them. (It also helps to keep the cats from playing with my top coats.)
Anyway, here it is...
I started searching for another storage system. After watching countless youtube videos and surveying all the nail polish blogs I could find with people showing their storage system I made the reluctant decision to find and purchase the type of nail polish racks you see at the salon. That decision was reluctant because I wasn't altogether happy with that choice, but couldn't see another way that met the requirements I had in mind. I wanted to be able to see my individual polishes easily, recognize the new ones I wanted to use, not store them on their sides and I really didn't want to decorate my walls with two of these large units that would have left me with no room for my Eiffel Tower portrait or print of "Birth of Venus".
I looked at several of these racks on Amazon and held off from making the purchase because I just wasn't happy with the idea.
Suddenly, one day at the Salvation Army I was struck with a creative solution. I like to check out the Salvation Army and the like once in a while just to see what I can find. In the past, I have found some pretty nice antique furniture and once found a set of paintings of my beloved Alaska. So there I was when I see this little media rack. It was a rough little thing, in terrible condition so there was no way I was going to buy that one, but I knew I could get a brand new one at Walmart for under $30 compared to the near $200 I was begrudgingly preparing to spend on Amazon.
The next weekend, I went to Walmart and picked up one of those little media racks for $27. Accompanying that media shelving unit on it's trip home was a can of metallic silver spray paint. An hour to build it, an evening spray painting it and the next morning I transferred all my polish friends to their new home. It sits in my bedroom, in a corner not far from my pillow. I can see all my colors and create new designs when I wake up, before bed, whenever I want. At night, when I turn my lamp off, my little bottle of glow in the dark polish lights up and I get to see it. I love this unit!
I have had to cover it with a bit of plastic table cover from Walmart. This keeps the horrific Arizona dust mostly off my bottles and eliminates the constant need to dust them. (It also helps to keep the cats from playing with my top coats.)
Anyway, here it is...
162 bottles right there. I keep my Gel polishes in the box on top along with my UV lamp. My top coats and bases, glow in the dark and nail treatments are all on the bottom shelf. The little green basket is some of my glitter polishes, at least the ones I don't use often.
I have had this for about 6 months or so now. There are a few scratches on the bottom from the cats and a black band on the green shelf because brilliant me spray painted it with the shelves in, then moved them. But that gives it character and I still think this is a great idea.
...til next time
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