Book Shelves

While I was at work today Jeff had made some shelves for Haylee and the twins. Nicole had been wanting to put some shelves up in Haylee's room for her books and make a little reading area for her. She saw some Ikea spice racks online that people would make book shelves out of and really liked that idea. Unfortunately, the only way you can get the Ikea spice racks is at one of their stores, you can't purchase them online. She did find some on eBay but they were around $40 for four of them, even though iKea sells them for $4.00 a rack. Shows you how popular they are.

On Pinterest I found some shelves that were called Ten Dollar Ledges so I showed them to her, she liked them and Jeff bought the wood to make them. Out of an 8' board he made two 3' ledges and one 2' ledge. Now the lady who made the original ledges had used them for picture frames but they work out great for books too.

When Nicole and I were measuring the wall, where she wanted to hang them, we also talked about what color to paint them. Haylee happened to be there too and she said she wanted them pink. Of course, a princess needs pink shelves and not plain old white. So Nicole gave me the can of pink paint that they had used for one of Haylee's walls in her room. When I got home form work I started painting them.

before I painted

after one coat of paint



After Jeff made Haylee's shelves he made some for the twins' room also. He made the same size shelves. Now what color to paint them is the question. Should she choose blue to match the stripes on the wall, red for a pop of color or just good old white?