Ledge Shelves

Remember my art/craft/second guest room?  No?  Well, here she is….I should say here she WAS, because we have made a few changes in here.

First up, we ditched that old futon.  We dragged that sucker to curb, and said good riddance.

Then, I spruced up my sewing table a bit (If you told me when I was 21 that I would one day type that sentence, I would be making fun of myself big time). Next, I bought some IKEA RIBBA Picture Ledges.  These…Once they were at my doorstep, I was pumped to get them on the wall.  I almost put them up myself, but then I couldn’t find the stud finder and the screw gun wasn’t charged.  So, I got smart and decided to wait for Justin.  Good thing too, because it was a lot easier with two people.  It’s always nice to have someone around to eye out heights and double check if things are level.  Let’s face it, sometimes things get wonky when you don’t take a step back and take a look.  Here they are, all hung up…This room was bare for so long, it was about time we added something to these walls.

Here’s a closer look at the ledges… they are perfect for displaying art.  I create new art from time to time, and do not necessarily want to frame everything or display it all over the house.  This is now the perfect spot for those misfit art pieces. Once everything was anchored in place, I did my thing adding art.

This is what I came up with…When you take a step back now, this is what you see…And, I know, you see that dresser in the right-hand side of this photo.  I’ll explain more on that another day.  For now, I hope you enjoy my new ledge shelves!What do you think?  Better?

 

Dumping Some Thoughts

I have been pondering about my next project I will tackle in our home.  I have been busy working, wedding planning(headache) and working on some art, so the home DIY stuff has kinda taken the back burner for the last couple weeks.  Although, my brain has been working over time on what I want to do with the 2nd guest room.  This room will be my art space/storage room/office, so I am pretty stoked for this one.  I have yet to start anything in this room, so I thought I would spill out some of my ideas and why not share with you right?

While I have been daydreaming about this room I have considered many colors that I may put on the walls.  I am thinking something like this…

Probably more a or c, not so much d.

Maybe something like this, colorwise, ignore the fact that this is a bedroom.

Or something like this, obviously I realize this is a nursery, just check out the wall color. I want something purplish-grayish with maybe a little hint of pink, but super close to white. Make sense? Well, it does to me!

Here are some office desks that I am diggin…

I am in love with everything going on in this photo.  I am obsessed with this desk. I am also loving the stacked baskets.

This desk is calling my name.

I am also thinking I want to have some kind of gallery wall going on, maybe like this…

or this…

I love the different frames and the placement.

I also would like to have some shelving above my desk.  I am thinking this…

I love these thin floating shelves in white!  I am also all about these shelves as well…

So that’s where I am at with the guest room plans.  Hope you enjoyed my brain dump!

Sprucing up the office

Since painting the office, we were pretty much left with a blank slate.  Since this is Justin’s office, he wanted to hang some stuff on the walls so it wasn’t so bare.  He started with a couple pictures of the dogs…

Yeah those are 8×10 photos of our dogs.  We know we are crazy, you don’t have to tell us.  Sorry about the dark picture, the window lighting is so bright all the photos were turning out pretty dark.   Next Justin wanted to hang a signed picture of some hockey player, sorry not sure who it is.

Then last he hung some concert ticket art that we had in our apartment.  Justin and I have both saved all of our concert tickets forever, even before we met each other.  I thought it would be cool to display all of them somewhere in the house…

The frame on the left has Justin’s concert tickets, the frame on the right are mine and the one in the middle is concerts we’ve been to together.  The funny thing is that Justin and I went to a lot of the same exact concerts when we were in high school and we didn’t even know each other.  Pretty crazy.  Here is a close up of the center frame…

We went with black frames in this room,  I thought they would go well with the color of the walls.  Also portions of the desk are painted black.  I thought it would tie in well.  So here is the office now…

and

Can’t help but make another list.

Office To Do:

1. Paint trim and walls.
2. Add frames to walls.
3. Replace carpet.
4. Close off room and add french doors.
5. Add some window treatment(shutters or curtains).
6. Purchase long corner desk.
7. Purchase bookcase or cabinets for storage.

I am sure I will have more to add to this list as we go, but this is what we would like to do down the road.