As I've mentioned before, we've been in our house for a year now. The house was in move-in condition and nothing 'needed' to be done. However, we have taken on a few projects. For instance, there is a built in bookcase in the living room, and Ryan took it upon himself to redo it. Granted, it wasn't constructed very well. So we dreamed of what we could do to make it better. There were ideas of making it just plain, but where's the fun in that? Then we thought of lining the inside back wall with cool graphic wall paper. But in the end we decided to stain the back inner wall of the bookcase. Ryan took apart the upper bookcase and left the lower cabinets alone. Then he thought about how best to go about reconstructing the shelves. After figuring out his plan, we went to work. Ryan measured and cut all the wood (sometimes more than once), while I painted all the (numerous!!!) pieces of shelving. After the back stained wall was put into place, Ryan assembled the shelving system.
And wah lah, this is what we got!
4 comments:
Love the after! Great job!
It looks so good! Was it pink before?
Susie - no, the room was (and still is) a lovely shade of beige (must be the terrible lighting going on that makes it look pink). but the opposite wall from the shelf is a beautiful chocolate brown, that's why we stained the inside of the shelf such a dark stain - to mirror 'the brown wall' (that what we refer to it as) :)
Love, love, love it!! Good job you two :o)
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