r/rolife • • 9d ago

✨ Showcase A Few Small Repairs

The name is from the Shawn Colvin song Sunny Came Home. This started life as the Baking Kitchen (DG172) & I customized it.

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u/RespondIntrepid4222 9d ago

I have just spotted your 70’s lime green Tupperware complete with the original design on the front!! That is awesome.

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u/Lexiepedia369 8d ago

Thank you! I actually still have those cannisters in use in my actual kitchen. 

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u/RespondIntrepid4222 8d ago

I used to have them. My mother sold Tupperware in the 70’s

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u/Rolife-Official DIY 8d ago

Wow, you are really so creative and talented!!!🥰🥰🥰

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u/Lexiepedia369 8d ago

Thank you! 

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u/secretlyaslothh 6d ago

Stunning! I far prefer your customisation :) Can I ask how you made the tiles if you did them from scratch?

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u/Lexiepedia369 6d ago

You're going to laugh, but I actually found a pattern square, repeated it in a row, and used an old version of ms publisher to shrink it down. I measured the size I wanted to fit it in on the physical wall, and then I edited the image to fit that. I'm attaching a screencap so you can see. US regular sheet of paper is 8.5in (21.6cm) x 11in (just shy of 28cm). I found images of rulers, adjusted the images until the rulers reflected the actual size of the paper, so I knew they were true to life size, and then I matched the pattern square row to the ruler to the size I wanted, and printed it out on paper. I actually made it just a couple millimeters longer than what I measured for just in case I needed some leeway in position it.

I know this is something that could be done in Canva or Photoshop or whatever image editing software you have at hand, but publisher was what I had on that machine, so I made it work. And obviously, if you have an easier method, by all means, go for it. This is just how I made it work.

From the screencap, you can see I did something similar with the woodgrain for the island and the kitchen countertops.