Hope your holiday break was fabulous! We spent ours bouncing between feverishly trying to finish up our basement for all of our holiday parties and actually throwing the holiday parties. This basement project has taken longer than anticipated but isn't that how it usually goes with home projects? We are still waiting for counter tops (I always tell my clients that holiday lead times are always longer than usual).
Even with all the holiday chaos we managed to make some progress on our kitchen & eating area and I wanted to show you where we are at with it all. My concept was to create a coffee house feel (I may have a bit of a coffee obsession). So why not indulge? Chalk board wall art, wood shelves and lots of coffee cups (obviously)!
I wanted floating shelves instead of upper cabinets because I didn't need much cabinet space in my basement. I priced out floating shelves and said nope. No way am I paying that price for 60" shelves (they were an upwards of $200 a piece)! So, I went to work trying to figure out a better way when a friend told me she made her own and voile I was off to The Home Depot to buy my own wood to start my 'project coffee house'!
My shopping list:
- 1" x 12" x 10' (I bought 2 & cut them to size) Common Board Here
- Rustoleum Ultimate Wood Stain in Dark Walnut here
- Black pipe to rest the shelves on (I cut them down to 13") Here
- Flanges to screw the pipe into the wall on Here
- ***note: make sure your threads on the pipes are the same as the flanges // I used 3/4"***
- Black chalkboard paint Here
Here are a few of my shots of the space so far. I also made a peninsula light using plumbing pipe and edison bulbs which you can see in one of the shots but I will explain how to do that in another blog. Enjoy!
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| // you can use any color stain depending on your tastes and style // |
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| Coffee anyone? |
Want to achieve this look? Contact me today for a design consult! amyterm@gmail.com
