After wedding festivities Saturday we stayed with my parents in KC and spent Sunday and the holiday on Monday doing DIY projects I had on my radar. Since buying a home I've become a huge fan of Fixer Upper- who really isn't these days?- and one of the things I'd seen time and time again on the show were floating shelves. Typically they're in Joanna's kitchen design but Andrew was a no-go for those so we opted to put them in the bathroom to use for storage. Obviously, the way to go about doing any DIY project is to check Pinterest for inspiration and sure enough, there were even plans already made which made the project that much easier!
DIY Floating Bathroom Shelves
-Since we are new homeowners we lack a tool collection aside from your average screw and screw driver so we opted for Home Depot to cut the wood to the length we wanted and used my dad's sander to smooth out the boards.
-The board we bought ended up being long enough to make three shelves with a small amount of excess wood.
And only after one stripped screw and a couple paint touch ups later the {a} shelf is hung (we have to finish painting the master bedroom before hanging the other two we made)!
The other project we DIY'd was a blanket ladder. For Christmas this past year my dad made us all wine racks and my mom a blanket ladder. Since then I've had my eye on them on Pinterest when the time came and I'd be able to make one. This one was a little more time consuming and needed more tools than we had so shout out to my dad for being handy and owning a saw!
For this one we used Shanty Chic's plans. After sitting in our garage for a week so our house doesn't smell like stain here's the final product!
I made a comment to Andrew this morning that our house is finally starting to come together and I'll be so happy when we're done painting-only two more rooms to go!
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