the shelves ~

 My husband worked so hard yesterday hanging these shelves.  It was so sweet of him!  And I was ecstatic with how they turned out.  Right away, I started shopping the house and made a quick trip to Meijer and got busy with the accessorizing.

The IKEA LACK series floating shelves were not difficult to hang, however, it did require some time.  Lots of leveling and measuring and TONS of screws.  The packaging clearly states that they do not hold more than 18 lbs per shelf, so I had to be careful with what I chose to put on them.

 

This is our laundry room / mud room.  We enter this room from our garage a million times a day.  Many of our guests do too, so I wanted it to be functional of course, but also stylish.  

When we went to IKEA in December, we bought some furniture and got a $100 credit from an in-store promotion, so the shelves ended up being free!  Yippee!  My goal was to increase the height on this side of the skinny space and also create the illusion of an elongated wall.  I think these shelves worked.

I decided to pull the antique factory shoe cart from my booth because it hadn't sold.  Turns out, it makes the perfect shoe rack for Mickey's shoes!

There is my new-to-me french wine box that I got at auction last week....told ya it was a keeper!

 

 I found this handpainted sign in Medina back in October.  It finally has a home!

 I've decided on little bursts of yellow here and there.  I am reusing an old cabinet on the other side of the room that was already there and the inside is painted yellow, so I took that as my cue.  A few pops of turquoise might show up too.  We chose the black shelves because the main inspiration for this room is black.  It is on the other side of the room and we LOVE it!  It will be revealed soon!

This half of the room is complete, aside from one more piece of art that might get added that I'm still chewing on.  There's two outstanding projects for the other side of the room.....a mirror that needs a fresh coat of paint and we are going to create some sort of hook board for hanging coats.  Hoping to get this all done this week.  Stay tuned!

Thanks for visiting..........have a great Monday!


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~ keep dreaming ~

Polly