First place we checked: the thrift store a block away. We bought a sort of burgundy bookcase that needed a ton of cleaning, and a yellow wall picture (love!). After meeting a few friendly elderly gentlemen who run the thrift store, one of the men accompanied us to the warehouse down Colorado Blvd to see if there were any other bookshelves they could hand off to us……. he was an interesting character, to say the least. The only thing that seems to come to mind about the conversation content, though, was his excitement over legalized medical marijuana. This guy was probably sixty. Typical.
Next, we headed to Evergreen’s Habitat for Humanity shop, at the man’s suggestion. There, I found my favorite reading chair in the world, and we decided to purchase 13 cabinet doors. These we would paint, distress with sandpaper and nail to the wall with L brackets. Instant bookshelves!
So… after a bit of a drive (and a stop to a non-existent Starbucks - bummer), we arrived at Home Depot. We couldn’t have been any more out of our element. However, with the help of a friendly Home Depot employee (or two… or three….), we purchased L brackets, plenty of screws, sandpaper, and two awesome colors of spray paint. Can you believe we spent about two hours trying to find the right things for this relatively small project??
Back home, we set to work! Spray painting in the back of Kev’s truck, we worked together AWESOMELY as a team! After maybe twenty minutes, though, my “trigger finger” started hurting, and Kevin took over as head spray painter. :) I took pictures.
All in all, it only took us about five hours to paint, assemble and mount the shelves. Good thing an NCIS marathon was on…
You're an inspiration. I've been wanting to paint my bookshelf for some time... maybe you should come do it for me????? :) :)
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