Usually my mom is the one crafting and assembling over on the Cottage side of the blog, but for once - it's me! I've recently moved again and for the first time since being in New York I have so much space that I don't know what to do with it. It's mind-boggling. To fill one of our wall spaces and make a home for tchotchkes, my new roomie and I decided to install a bookshelf. The results are below.
Before (Full disclose: It's from Ikea and somehow we managed to break off an entire section of shelf dividers during our assembly. Construction is not our forte. It required some wine after, as seen here):
After:
Ta-da! So much color and so many odds and ends. We also have tons more that have yet to stake a home on the shelf. In due time.
Now let's take closer peek.
Photography books stacked by size, as you do. I'm so excited to have a new selection of books (my roommate's) to mingle with mine.
To create a clean look we organized our books by color, then size. We have a few repeats in books.
A mix of books, colors, dishes, frames, pins and vases.
Stacking was a major theme for us, it helped break up some of the monotony of the books.
This is just the beginning! We're not finished arranging our tchotchkes yet (can you ever be?) so there's more to come!
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