Craft Room Shelves

 

This week I'm re-doing a couple of cute shelves that didn't sell in my last garage sale.  So I guess you could say that I shopped my own sale.  They fit in nicely in our last house, but the color and style is a bit off for my kitchen in this house.  I got to thinking that I need some shelving in my craft room, so what better place to make them for, right?  

Here are the two little shelves: 

 

This off-white one has herb labels on it - I saved them for something else, someday.

 

I removed the hardware.

 

 

Filled the holes with spackle/wood filler.

 

Lightly sanded them down to smooth out the spackle/wood filler and to "rough up" the surface to prepare it for the spray paint.

 

Sprayed away with my new favorite spray paint.  I needed two cans - totally worth it.

I sanded in-between the 4 layers of paint. 

I decided the white shelves needed a little sprucing up so I got out my craft paint and paint brushes.

I painted the knobs on the vertical shelf the two colors that I've accented the craft room with.  I also painted the little cracks in the larger shelf green.

I added some dots to the knobs of the vertical shelf.

Here's a great art teacher tip for painting perfect dots: dip the non-bristle end of the paintbrush in your paint and make your dots.  Works perfectly every time.

 

Here are the shelves ready for a new spot in the craft room.  Next week I'll show you how I arranged them, added crafty supplies and labels.  

Do you have any shelves you could re-purpose and paint?

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