Monday, September 9, 2013

Bookshelf: A Re-Style

We Live Upstairs blog Bookshelf re-style

I've mentioned before that in moving into our new place, the realization that we needed more book-friendly storage space became very...real. As we often do, Matt and I ventured to a local thrift shop pretty close to our house, and came home $15 poorer and 1 bookshelf richer; a win in my book.

We knew we wanted to put this shelf in Matt's office, which already holds a few pieces of darker furniture. And since the room is not so expansive in size, I was afraid if we left it dark brown, the room would seem a bit overwhelmed by darkness. Thus, a nice olive was settled on (after much, much debate).

We Live Upstairs blog Bookshelf re-style
We Live Upstairs blog Bookshelf re-style
We Live Upstairs blog Bookshelf re-style

We sturdied the backing, primed, painted, and trinket-ed our way to the finished product. Voila!

We Live Upstairs blog Bookshelf re-style
We Live Upstairs blog Bookshelf re-style
We Live Upstairs blog Bookshelf re-style
We Live Upstairs blog Bookshelf re-style

We've been way into fixing up our thrift store finds lately...so much so that we've decided one sign of true adulthood is when you'd be totally happy getting a Lowe's gift card for Christmas. Scary stuff, y'all! See you tomorrow with the last of the wedding posts!

5 comments:

  1. bem retro! amei as cores :)

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  2. You really brought that back to life - love it! You simply primed and painted? I am always afraid to buy older finished furniture because it seems like it will cost more money to fix up in the end - but maybe I have been looking at it all wrong! (from one bad table experience).

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