we were asked to create a ginghamsburg bookstore (aka "the vine") presence/location at our fort mckinley campus... a somewhat portable, lockable kiosk-type cart that would attraction attention and enable the fort to sell resources, message cds/dvds and mission tshirts. i researched carts and found them online beginning at around $1000 - a bit pricey. at the same time we'd been painting a large classroom at the fort and i hardly knew what to do with the large, random pieces of furniture in that space.
we ended up dry-brushing that plywood furniture with a coat of "india ink" (valspar, martha stewart colors) and in a blissful moment i realized that we could repurpose one of the classroom cupboards into a bookstore cabinet/cart! we installed new locks, moved the cupboard out into the worship lobby and set out to design and customize it's look. a little paint + some mud n'spit = a beautiful bookstore location.
I like it.
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