Primitive Decor - Rustic Shelf from a drawer or box

Fun and affordable, wooden crates, boxes, and drawers make wonderful wall shelves in your primitive decor setting. You can choose a piece that goes with the theme of your room. You can paint, decorate, or distress to add to your accent piece.

The trick is in the hanging. I've listed two sites that will give you some ideas on creating and or hanging your "new" old shelf.

Old Drawer to Rustic Shelf - Clean Home Journal™ > Designing For Your Home > Crafts

Decorating : Other : Easy Rustic Shelf : Home & Garden Television

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Primitive Decor - Suspend It

There are lots of ways to hang light fixtures and plants when you have a primitive decor.

Personally, I love the look of ropes and wood pulleys, but using cast iron hooks and chains can be an excellent choice as well. Experiment a bit and see what you can come up with for your home.

I'd like to add that we truly enjoyed doing the Super September Give-Away. Congratulations to our four drawing winners. Watch for more contests in the future.

Primitive Decor Super September Give-Away!

Our second winner in our Super September Give-Away is Kevin! He also was a eBay Motor Customer. (Week #1 winner was too!) Kevin has been notified and his prize will be going out in the mail tomorrow.

We will be drawing on the 9th, 16th, 23rd, and 30th. Surprise prizes may include reproduction Victorian Cards, mugs, and more. You do not need to buy anything to be entered in the drawings! There are lots of ways to enter. Enter as often as you wish!

To enter:

1. All of our successful eBay buyers are automatically entered
2. Simply comment on any of our blogs, including this one to recieve one entry per comment.
3. Leave a friendly message in "My eBay World" guestbook or our website www.djfshop.net guestbook.
4. Subscribe to any of our newsletters.
5. Submit contributions such as articles or photos for consideration to our website or blogs. Subjects include Primitive Decor, Rat rods and car projects, and vintage recipes. You retain copyright priveleges to the contribution but allow us to publish it in our blog or website.
   
6. Promote our eBay store Frank's Stuff on your blog, about me page or other. Don't forget to notify us of your posting so that we can enter you in the drawing!
   

Winners will be notified by email, so make sure we have your email or eBay contact info so that we can let you know you've won and get your mailing address to send your prize!

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Primitive Decor - Wire Light Fixtures

One of my favorite trends in primitive decor is the use of vintage hanging wire cage lights. These sought after lighting fixtures are a fun accent piece. The half cage are best mounted to the wall, but the full cage lights are great suspended from the ceiling. Of course, the vintage wiring should be replaced with safe wiring before using in your home.

Super September Give-Aways!

4 Drawings! 4 chances to win! We will be drawing on the 9th, 16th, 23rd, and 30th. Surprise prizes may include reproduction Victorian Cards, mugs, and more. There are lots of ways to enter! Enter as often as you wish!

To enter:

1. All of our successful eBay buyers are automatically entered
2. Simply comment on any of our blogs, including this one to recieve one entry per comment.
3. Leave a friendly message in "My eBay World" guestbook or our website www.djfshop.net guestbook.
4. Subscribe to any of our newsletters.
5. Submit contributions such as articles or photos for consideration to our website or blogs. Subjects include Primitive Decor, Rat rods and car projects, and vintage recipes. You retain copyright priveleges to the contribution but allow us to publish it in our blog or website.
   
6. Promote our eBay store Frank's Stuff on your blog, about me page or other. Don't forget to notify us of your posting so that we can enter you in the drawing!
   

Winners will be notified by email, so make sure we have your email or eBay contact info so that we can let you know you've won and get your mailing address to send your prize!

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Primitive Decor in Your Garden

One of my favorite places to use primitive decor is in the garden. You can use almost anything to create that primitive touch in your outdoor room.

Probably most favorite are antique farm and garden tools. These can be as large as horse drawn plows, to the midsized steel wheeled wheelbarrow, to a small potato planter. I've stacked would crates to create plant stands. Planters included crocks, cast iron buckets and scuttles, and shoes!

One of my friends purchased an old metal frame and headboard from us to create her "flower bed." I'd love to follow through with her bedroom theme and have an old washstand and more!

I've picked up many ideas through the years. My raised beds are made using railroad beams. I've created my herb garden in a wooden ladder on the ground. We talk of surrounding the herb garden with firefighting collectibles, but as of yet, it still has its simple, lovely, primitive theme.

Get out in your yard or on your porch! Take a look around! Can you see a way to add your prim flair out there?

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Primitive Decor: Cast Iron Accents

Antique cast iron pieces can be another affordable help to your primitive decor. And once again these pieces have the antique charm in which you can leave their age showing, clean them up, paint them, decal them, or whatever you choose.

Cast iron trivets can be fun in your kitchen. I have a dear friend that has an entire kitchen wall of her log cabin decorated with the various trivets she has found. What a brilliant idea.!

My kitchen does not lend itself well to this, but cast iron wood stove doors can be fun. The one pictured is a favorite of mine. The heartwarming message on it, lends it to a homey kitchen wall.

I have many cast iron kettles in my gardens, including one huge one held up by a tire rim that looks like an urn propped up as it is. Again, as with the cast iron enamelware, if you are planting in it you must allow for a lot of drainage material.

Cast iron is quite durable but a word to the wise for those that are going to use it outdoors in northern climates. Be very careful when moving frozen iron in the winter! And no, not because your skin will stick if wet. I am sure most people know this. My warning is because cast iron becomes brittle when very cold. This is the voice of experience speaking! I dropped a heavy kettle on concrete and it shattered into several pieces!

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