Towler Life

I'm excited to share some finished pictures of nursery projects we've been working on over the last few weeks.

First up- Display Shelves:

We bought two pieces of wood (already painted white) from Lowe's, one measuring 4 ft, the other 2 ft. After we spray painted our left over corbels/brackets that we used for the bar in the kitchen (and the coke table in the study), we screwed them to the wood. Then the shelves were ready to hang and decorate! This was a cheap project that looks great and functions to display some special and sentimental items-

Up next- Basket Light:

Remember these retro and outdated basket lights we got years ago from Dan's old boss?

You'll remember that after we painted one brown, we utilized it immediately in our kitchen back in Suwanee then put it to good use here in our guest room. The second one also survived the trip to Raleigh and has finally made its way out of the storage closet and into the nursery. We painted it all white, bought a light kit, and hung it above the window seat- it looks fabulous and turns the space into the cozy little reading nook we envisioned from the start. Loving it!!

Finally- Floating Book Shelves with Hanging Storage:

Floating book shelves seem to be quite the nursery trend right now. Ask anyone with a baby or toddler on their hands and they will tell you that of course they have floating book shelves in the baby's room. We knew we wanted to incorporate some into our nursery to display Baby T's growing library but we weren't sure exactly what we wanted it to look like. Then Dan came across our inspiration picture (on Pinterest of course!).

The book display was just what we wanted to do and the hanging storage baskets were such a neat addition we figured we could come up with a way to make the whole thing happen. Now I've found most people have purchased their floating shelves from Ikea, but if you know us then you know we aren't going to buy our floating book shelves. We are going to make them. And we did! With two pieces of molding from Home Depot, a nail gun, and some L- brackets for mounting.

Before

After

And for the baskets we simply hung an adjustable curtain rod, painted two black garden hooks white, then hung two lined baskets that were buy one get one free at Michael's.