Today I wanted to hop on and share with you one of the latest home projects we completed. Which was some DIY shelves for our dining room. This also completes our dining room so full tour of that will be coming soon as well.
When we purchased our house we loved the open concept of the main floor, the kitchen opened up to the dining and the living room. Our dining room is less of a room and more of a "nook" since everything is so open. We decided to make a couple updates to make it a more defined space and more functional. First we added in some cabinets along the wall for storage, more on this in the dining tour.
Originally there was a large painting above the cabinets but what I really wanted was to add some shelves above for some additional storage and to decorate. My husband wasn't 100% sure when I pitched the idea but agreed I could go ahead and try it out.
To start this project I went and got the wood for the shelves from Lowes. I got the same wood panels from Lowes that we used as the cabinet top in the dining room. I then had them cut the panels down for me to correct size. The man in the lumber department actually said they are typically not supposed to cut anything that small but was super nice and did it for me anyway.
Once the wood was cut and I got it home I stained it to match the cabinet tops as well with the decorative glaze that came in our Rustoleum cabinet kit. It is super simple to use, you just brush the glaze on then immediately wipe off the excess. I did two coats of glaze on the shelves.
For the brackets, I actually found exactly what I was hoping for at Hobby Lobby by accident and was thrilled. Especially because they were a killer price point, making this a very affordable project.
Once it was time for install I handed that over to my hubby. He found the studs and drilled the mounts into the wall then attached the shelves. On the bottom shelf he also mounted on these coffee cup hooks on this bar we had at our old house so we can hang up all of our mugs.
After all was installed it was time for the fun part, decorating! A lot of what is on the shelves are things I already had at the house but I did add a few extras from Homegoods.
How to Video:
Stay tuned for the full dining room tour next :)
Decor on Shelves:
Shelf Brackets
Letter B- Hobby Lobby
Blue Plaid Canisters- Rae Dunn from HomeGoods
White Shiplap Board- At Home
Magnolia cotton wreath- Similar
Mercury Glass Vase- HomeGoods
Corbels- At Home- Shanty to Chic line
Cook books- Joy of Cooking & Magnolia Table
Cutting board- Custom wedding gift, from etsy
Glass Apothecary Jar- HomeGoods
Lemons
White Pitcher- Homegoods
Mugs- Rae Dunn- Homegoods/ TJmax
Cake Stand- Target Dollar spot
Cream and Sugar Canisters- Rae Dunn- HomeGoods/TJmax
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