Here is the story...
My boyfriend and I went to Target to look for a plant stand for a Meyer Lemon tree we had purchased. We wanted to put the stand in in the front picture window of our home so our lemon tree could get enough light. Well, while looking through the aisles of Target I found this bookshelf for only $15. I thought it was a GREAT deal so I decided we would be leaving the store with it also!
We got home and put it together in our living room, it's not real wood it's like compacted cork but it looked nice! So we put it together and then he asked me what I planned on doing with it. Well, my original idea was to put the bookshelf in my craft room to help organize all of my supplies but he had a different idea. He suggested since the shelf looked so nice, we should put in in our hallway as a decoration.
We put the bookshelf in the hallway and it looked really nice so we agreed to keep it there. BUT being that I am obsessed with crafting I wanted to make the shelf a little bit more me and less plain. This is where the crafting comes in, it was so simple too! I decided to take some Martha Stewart paint testers I had purchased at Home Depot a few weeks earlier and paint the inside bottom panel of each shelf a different color. It was simple, easy and fun and it added that something extra I needed to make the shelf 'mine'.
Here is the How-To...
SUPPLIES:
- A Bookshelf
- 3 Different Colors of Paint
- Painters Tape
- A Paintbrush
DIRECTIONS:
1) Take your bookshelf and the painters tape and tape off the sections you do not want painted. I did the a strip on the right and left inside sides of each shelf and the back panel because I was painting the bottom panel. I also taped of the front lip of each shelf.
2) Paint! I did a few coats because I wanted the colors to be bright.
3) Let it dry and remove the tape. You're done!
here is what mine looks like!...
What do you think? Are you refinishing any furniture?
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