The other day as I was trying to clean and rearrange my bedroom I broke one of our bookshelves that housed, books :) and shoes. In my effort to get things organized, I decided I would buy a new book shelf and re purpose the boards to make shelves. Well when I arrived at the store, I found the taller shelf for just 10 more dollars, and figured that would be easier to assemble than getting thingy ma bobbies to hold the wood in shelves.
I lugged the 70 pound box into the house and with the help of my 4 year old we build the shelf.
You know how it comes with the fake wood back that you nail into the back, I planned to only but it on the bottom half, to expose the wall in the top half. Then when I moved things I found this map, of the San Juan islands...and the idea came to me, back the shelf with this map and the back thing it came with.
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| the map of San Juan Islands (where Eric and I went on our honeymoon) |
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| I placed the map down and then the back thingy over it, the map is a little bigger than the area. |
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| the naked shelf before I decided to back it. |
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| the mapped back with no shelves. |
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| In its spot with the shelves. |
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| all filled in. looks better in real life, housing my sewing machine too. |
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| a little closer look. |
I really like it. Love the colors and love the look....I might take the shelf outside in the warmer weather and spray a "shellac" (no idea how to spell it) over it to make it last longer. But I am happy with it for now. And it fit perfectly in the little corner of "dead" space in my room.
