Hello and welcome to Weekend Warriors, a series of posts appearing each Friday, about the good stuff: the things people make in their free time, when they're not working for the man, feeding the business, or otherwise doing the kind of work that's 'for work.' We hope it's a dose of inspiration for your own weekend's makings... cork_cabinet Some people prize the hospital-green look of vintage steel filing cabinets and office furniture. Other people don't. Some people just get tired of after a while, which is what happened to ReadyMade reader Seth Greenia. He writes:
Hello ReadyMade, I’ve been inspired by your great magazine to give my standard steel filing cabinet a new look. In your Oct/Nov 2007 issue, I saw a similar cabinet covered with wood patterned contact paper (“Who-wood-have-thunk?). With a lack of interesting contact paper, I decided to recycle a bunch of old cork squares by adhering them to the sides of the cabinet. A variety of wood stains were used to distinguish each cork quadrilateral which were adhered to the steel in an amorphous pattern. I feel the final piece looks great! Thank you for the great ideas! --Seth Greenia Kirkville, NY
We weren't able to reach Seth by email to ask him a few of the detail-oriented questions we had, such as how he got the cork to lie so smoothly under the front keyhole. (Seth, if you're reading, maybe you'll tell us in the comments?) But we like the way his project glows in the afternoon sun. Got a project, finished or ongoing, that you'd like to share? Write to info@readymademag.com and let us know.

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