These are some shelves I found at a garage sale last spring (three of them for $5, one is maybe going in our bedroom). They were hideous--old, cracking wood, yucky when I found them.
I repainted them and antiqued them, and thanks to a tolerant Paul (who doesn't love them but doesn't necessarily hate them), they're now hanging in our living room.
The decor is just stuff we had on-hand; it's going to be improved over the coming weeks, but this is just to start us out.
Taking yay/nay votes now, before we hang one in our bedroom... Any suggestions for improvement? Pretty please?
5 comments:
I'm no Martha Stewart...but what about painting them a black or red color?
oooh, that's a possibility. bold. i'll have to think about that.
i was als thinking a dark color, and then antiquing them...like chocolate brown or black. And I actually AM Martha...so if you don't take my advise, i will officially unsubscribe from this blog. :) please.
um, what they said.
I think they are very cute. You could try painting the inside back the same color as your wall and the sides one of the darker colors mentioned. then it would look like they are kind of floating on the wall. Also, if you kind of treated the shelves like they were all part of the same and kind of "unified" the items on them. Ex: pots that match or are similar, frames that match or are similar. Just some ideas....or if you painted your walls a darker color and just left the shelves white. I'm sure painting your walls is really easy and quick...you should do that!
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