My birthday was two weeks ago. My sweet husband, Shawn-the-wonder-guy, always wants to do something spectacular and surprising for my birthday, but I am much more simple than that. I always have a long wish list of things I would like for him to do or make around here and I am more than willing to take them as birthday gifts. And anniversary. And Christmas.
So for this year's birthday, I requested new shelving for my fabrics in my studio. As you may recall from my earlier studio tour, it looked like this:
It was functional, but getting difficult to gain access to the rolls of fabric when I needed them. It never failed: the fabric I would need would be on the top shelf, under about four other rolls. Now mind you, these are not small rolls. They are anywhere from 15 - 50 yards of fabric. They can get heavy!
So, after hours on Pinterest and perusing websites such as Ikea, I thought I had the perfect solution.
Only problem was that it involved a trip to Ikea.
Shawn the-wonder-guy detests Ikea. With a passion. Would be willing to do anything to avoid going there.
So, having mercy upon him, plus not being completely sold on the piece that I had chosen from there, we did some other shopping.
I ended up getting two tall bookcases from Wal-Mart. They are very inexpensive and the shelves were the exact measurements that I was wanting to work with. Shawn added some nice molding trim to the top and down the middle where the two pieces meet and suddenly it looked like a wonderful built-in piece.
But I wasn't finished! All those hours on Pinterest were spinning in my head and I decided that the back of the shelves needed something to jazz them up. I found some wrapping paper that I really liked at Target and purchased a couple rolls. Using double-sided sticky tape, they went up in a flash. The shelves were added and then the fabric and suddenly I had this:
I still had to deal with all those huge bolts of fabric, but I had a plan for those also. A quick trip to Lowe's to purchase two large round Brute rubber garbage cans solved the problem. I placed one on each side of the new bookcase and loaded them up. Getting the bolt that I need is now so much easier!!
Now it all kind of looks like something from Project Runway, don't you think?
And I kept room for the dog beds!
But, here is where you all come in. I need to decide something to make the garbage cans look, well, less like giant garbage cans. This seems to be a unique dilemna as nothing comes up when I do a search on Pinterest. You know you have hit a new plateau when a search comes up empty!
So, what would your suggestion be???
