Paint crappy old luggage to turn it into awesome storage • Offbeat Home & Life

Tara over at WhimsyFunk has come up with one of those baskets storage solutions: get some old gross luggage (not the fancy-ass “vintage” kind that costs a fortune, but just the old kind that looks like this), sand it, paint it, and VOILA: matching storage set that slides under the bed. For the full scoop on how to do it, head on over to Tara’s site!

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Comments on Paint crappy old luggage to turn it into awesome storage

Any tips on making the insides of them not smell like so many years of nasty?

How about baking soda?
And the keeping some dryer sheets inside

Genuinely asking, because my work’s blocking her blog… is that the before or after picture?

Ariel Meadow Stallings says:

November 16, 2012 at 12:05 pm

After. Here’s the before:

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- Rose says:
  
  November 16, 2012 at 2:52 pm
  
  Actually, I kinda like the original look as much as I like the paint job. Though I guess they were probably all marked up originally…
  
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Love the old and new looks! I am crazy over old luggage….I am storing everything I had in totes in them. Will be painting some of them as soon as weather warms.
Thanks for sharing!

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