Inversé Glassware Rack - Repurposed for Met Monday

I've had this Inversé (inverted) glassware rack for about 10 years.  It's been in storage for three years since we moved to the new house.  Oddly enough I found the perfect storage solution for the rack by placing it inside an unused metal garbage container. Not as awful as that sounds, in that it was new and never used for garbage. (I think I bought the rack from Napa Style, which offers the same/similar rack now in a sealed rust finish.)

Now I've pulled it out to repurpose it as a display rack.  I never found it very functional as a glassware rack, either for out on the counter storage or as a drying rack which was its intended purpose.  After a series of incidents with glasses becoming unbalanced and lotsa breakage, it was relegated to the nether world.  Cute idea, but my experience was that my glassware was either too large or would not balance safely unless I stood there and watched it!

Displaying mugs and cups is always a problem for me and I have a large number of mugs, little pitchers, and children's cups/mugs that are usually languishing in a closet or box because there just is no good way to display them all.

This may turn out to be a major dust magnet and a passing fancy, but for now I'm just happy to see some of these orphan mugs and cups brought out of storage and back out into the light of day.

So is this a Metamorphosis candidate?  Maybe not, but this is what's happening in the life of my Inversé glassware rack for this week at least. Check out all the great participants in Metamorphosis Monday over at Between Naps On The Porch with our hostess Susan.