Former French baguette box storage turned into a laundry storage

We have been for a while now in a journey to minimalism. De-cluttering has been and is still a slow process. Although it will never come to be extreme, nearly half of our possessions have been given away to friends, charities or sold. The act of parting from possessions provides an unexpected pleasure of freedom. Minimising has also the gift to make each and everything that you still own, special in the fact that it is either beautiful and useful or beautiful and multi-purposed.

Whenever there is a feeling of unease, we always go on the hunt to get rid of things. Even if comes to only 2-3 things, it is still therapeutic, satisfying and liberating.

On another side, minimalism also invites to creativity. We had no laundry basket, but had inherited a French baguette box. We originally put it for sale online, but somehow it never got sold. One day, whilst cleaning and tiding up, the idea of using the baguette box as dirty laundry storage came up. We gave it a trial for a month, just to see if practically it worked. And it did. We are still using it to store our dirty laundry. Re-purposing the baguette box was a wonderful idea. It is practical, it takes less floor space than a laundry basket would and even full of dirty laundry, once the lid closed, it is rather charming to look at.

When our guests go out of our bathroom and ask why we have a bread box in that room, it always start a conversation on re-purposing beautiful and useful objects. Who would have though that a baguette box could become a dirty laundry box?

We would encourage you to re-purpose any object that you love and give it a second life, even it would most likely appear strange. It would give you a happy feeling and most certainly and sensation of creativity and thinking out of the box.

Remember, be kind to you, be kind to others