Card catalog

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!

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

Vintage library card catalogs DIY upcycled into furniture.

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…

WOW, this makeover is awesome! Learn how to make a faux card catalog from a hardware organizer. #cardcatalog #vintage #tutorial

WOW, this makeover is awesome! Learn how to make a faux card catalog from a hardware organizer. #cardcatalog #vintage #tutorial

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

These started out gray, scratched, dented, and rusty. A few simple steps later and thise metal card catalog looks brand new!

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 those of you born after 1985: This is how you found books in the library before everything went online. This is a digital rendition of a 35mm transparency scanned with an Epson Perfection 4490 Photo scanner. Some colour restoration has been applied.