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Showing posts with label pinterest. Show all posts
8/9/11
Library- Bit of a Makeover
I like books, a lot. I have boxes of books in our storage room waiting to find a home and I have the perfect spot, just no shelves to put them on. We've been in our house for about 9 months now and those books have been very patient. Their wait is about to end as we're planning a trip to Ikea this weekend to pick up some Expedit bookshelves (like the images below).
The perfect spot is in our Sitting Room/ Library off of our Master bedroom, shown below. I would love wall to wall with a built-in look, but door and window locations in the room make this impossible. Vent locations in the floor mean that I need to keep my distance from books, as well.
We are going to buy the 5x5 unit and a 1x5 unit and stack them. I want to go for a floor to ceiling look and I can't wait to organize my books on them. Now I need to figure out how to organize...by genre, author, or color. Hard decisions need to be made!
8/2/11
Pinterest- Chalkboard Globe Completed!
On my previous post I talked about completing a project from Pinterest to meet the Young House Love Pinterest Challenge. I met the challenge head on and completed the project on time (in spite of our house guests this weekend)! I have to say that setting deadlines and making a public challenge is a great way to get things accomplished.
You can see my inspiration in the previous post here. I quite happy with how it turned out. It was easy enough to do:
1. Removed globe and used spray paint cap to elevate it in a spray box.
2. Used chalkboard spray paint to apply thin coats of paint.
3. Used a silver spray paint to update the globe pedestal a bit.
4. Put it back together again.
My husband was dubious about covering up the vital geographic information, but I reasoned that the names change on countries so quickly anyways that it would probably be out of date in a few years time. We already owned all of the spray paint, so the only cost for this project was the $1 globe.
You can see my inspiration in the previous post here. I quite happy with how it turned out. It was easy enough to do:
1. Removed globe and used spray paint cap to elevate it in a spray box.
2. Used chalkboard spray paint to apply thin coats of paint.
3. Used a silver spray paint to update the globe pedestal a bit.
4. Put it back together again.
My husband was dubious about covering up the vital geographic information, but I reasoned that the names change on countries so quickly anyways that it would probably be out of date in a few years time. We already owned all of the spray paint, so the only cost for this project was the $1 globe.
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