DIY Projects at the Cabin

This is a fun project for the cabin from Cottage Life

We’ve had a tiny bulletin board at the cottage above the old rotary phone for the last 10 years. Nothing ever seems to get taken off it but more and more things get pinned on. As a result, we have a messy collage of business cards, notes, and photographs, none of which is easily accessible in this small area. Needless to say, necessity drove this project. Beautiful old wooden windows have been common at garage sales and flea markets for years. Instead of placing a mirror behind one such gem, we used cork and created a handsome new bulletin board.

They also have a cool DIY room divider which we need to do at the cabin.

A natural law of cottaging holds that the number of visitors must exceed the availability of beds-in-bedrooms at least once per season. Inevitably, then, your triple-duty kitchen/ dining/living room also becomes an impromptu dormitory in which you place sleeping guests on display. And that – let’s face it – is almost never pretty.

A room divider offers your visitors a modicum of privacy. This one is built on casters that allow it to roll away out of sight when your friends are out of mind, yet the construction is sturdy in case your divider becomes a semi-permanent fixture shielding a corner of the room that the kids are
permanently scheduled to clean up someday.