Creative & Unusual Decorating With Vintage Auto Parts (Or, Can You Hear The “Vroom-Vroom” When You Go “Boom-Boom”?)

February 27, 2010 by Deanna Dahlsad  
Filed under Collectibles



Because so many of you love creative decorating ideas, I just had to show off what my parents did with this vintage radio speaker grill from a Pontiac Straight 8 (likely from the early 1950s) — they turned it into a cold air return register!

old pontiac 3 grill hiding ugly air vent

This is in the small bathroom, but this idea could be replicated in any room, with any other usual vintage “vented” item.

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