Thrifty Thrusday: From Changing to Laundry

It’s been a while since I’ve done a Thrifty Thursday post mainly because I don’t come across “thrifty” things as often as I wished! This week though I wanted to share my genius upcycle.

I’ve been pining for this laundry room set up from Ana-White for a couple of months now:

But 1) I would never build it, 2) Preacher Man would never build it, and 3) I don’t know if I would want something permanent in our small laundry room in case when we want to sell.

This summer Monkey has potty-trained {insert huge, thunderous applause!} so the old changing table that’s been through all three of my kids is no longer needed. I knew that I wanted to do something with it. I mean it has three perfectly good shelves. I tried it in the dining room where we homeschool, but that room is pretty much at saturation point for furniture.

Then I thought…..would a laundry basket fit on those shelves?

Sure enough they do! So I rolled the unused changing table into the laundry room. It fit perfectly {the dryer door will still open and close}, so I quickly put a laundry basket on the second shelf, I’m planning on buying another one for the bottom shelf, and on the top shelf I have the sock basket {unmatched sock’s home} and a basket of hangers for our air dry clothing.

The finished product:

  

Not bad and super thrifty!

Cost: $2 for one new laundry basket.

Keep your eyes out for old, discarded changing tables because they work perfectly for a quick laundry room upgrade.

Loving it when a dream becomes a reality in the tree house,

Chelli