Wow, take a look at this kitchen island -- it's made from shopping carts! Look! Kitchen Island Made From Shopping Carts
This is part of Peter's San Francisco loft, featured today on Apartment Therapy. Peter constructed the kitchen "cart" himself. Here's what he says about it:
This thing is weird. Didn’t want to spend big bucks for an island, but needed more counter space and a way to break up the open layout. Keeping with the trend of bringing the outdoors in, I made the base out of shopping carts to reflect my “up and coming” SOMA neighborhood. It’s Derelique. The carts were cut above the wheels, turned on-end and re-welded. The top is part of an IKEA butcher block table flanked by some donated granite. Hanging stemware racks complete the rolling, kitchen island bar thing.
We love it! It works perfectly in his space. Here's a little more info about the photos above, too.
• 1 The up-ended shopping carts.
• 2 A bigger view of the kitchen.
• 3 Here's a better look at the top of the island/cart.
• 4 Peter leaves his spices stuck to the microwave, above the stove.
• 5 Beautiful art in the kitchen.
• See the full tour: House Tour: Peter's Light Loft Living
Related: Kitchen Spotlight: A Transformation in Encino
(Images: Lily G. for Apartment Therapy)
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those shopping carts are the cleverest thing ever, especially with the little fruit cart on top.
view Kate (NC)'s profile
That is so cool! Absolutely brilliant!
view justveggingout's profile
This would be perfect in my "Junk Style" kitchen. What a cool, funky island!
view MyLastBite's profile
I'm curious where the shopping carts came from, Saving money on furniture by recycling is cool, but stealing from someone else to do so - not so much.
view Grumpy Girl's profile
Derelique! Ha hah! The Zoolander kitchen.
view berkeleydaisy's profile
Yeah, I was sort of wondering where the carts came from too. Those things are expensive!
view badifat's profile
I like this! I also wondered where they came from. Hopefully, they were honest castoffs...........
view Maureen's profile
Another curious questioner of the carts' origin... saw a shopping cart chair yesterday on re-nest from a site that refashions items into furniture, but was appalling in price. Always bugs me when things are "reused" and sold for thousands of dollars. The designing minds at Ikea, many years ago, approached a manufacturer of metal shopping carts to help design a low-cost table made with similar lines and concepts. I thought that was way innovative!
view TheGoodBiGirl's profile
Add another the list of those wondering where the shopping carts came from....
view angorian's profile
What a great idea! I wish I had enough space in my kitchen for this...I bet there will be a shortage of shopping carts everywhere now :)
view orchidgirl1979's profile
Damn - I just tried to toss two shopping carts in the back of my SUV last night while at Giant grocery store, and they both wouldn't fit.
I'll get the second one later tonight. (I just hope the cashier doesn't ask me, "Why are you checking out with a shopping cart when all you bought was just one avocado?")
view justveggingout's profile
Great island! Side question -- I've long wanted those racks you can screy into the bottom of cabinets and hang wine glasses on (there are some in the middle of this cart). Where can you find those?
view jbhansen's profile
jbhansen...google stemware rack, or, any organizational store, crate and barrel, william sonoma, a wine store, restaurant supply etc. will have those.
view splatgirl's profile
Hello everyone,
Thanks for the compliments. I purchased the shopping carts from Economy Restaurant Fixtures here in SF. After showing them comps on eBay, they gave me a good price on a couple with faulty wheels.
jbhansen - This is also where I purchased the stemware racks.
Peter
view reiskid's profile