shelves and shutters.

So many things to share! But we will do it one at a time of course! :) 

I am so excited to share the additions we made to my craft room/office upstairs. 

Here we go!

So this is what it looked like before... nice, but definitely needed some help...

I wanted to add some built in bookshelves on each side of the windows and leave the bench for extra seating under the windows. 

So, using some of the leftover wood we had from building the house and a few boards we needed to buy, we built the shelves.

And I always wanted to cover 1/2 of the bookshelves with old shutters... so we looked and looked and looked and couldn't ever find any that fit right... and were a good deal. SO, we decided to make our own shutters! We used cedar boards and left the rough cut side on the outside to give it that "rough/old" look. 

Then Matt painted the shelves white and I painted the shutters a light blue (I got the easy job) Instead of using a primer, I just put one light coat of blue on the shutters so that the wood would show through and again give it that weathered look. 

And this is how it all turned out...

And not to worry, I had PleNtY of things to fill up those shelves!

Still moving things around but its coming along...

And the best part about it is that I can hide my scrapbooking and sewing materials all behind the shutters on one side, and all my books behind the other!

Thanks for stopping in! More projects are in progress and we will post again asap!