Open dish shelves...

Hi Everyone!  I wanted to show you the open shelves I made for a client.  She was purchasing it for her mother who saw open shelves in a magazine and wanted something like it.  She had exact dimensions for me to follow because of where she wanted to put it but otherwise I was to design it however I wanted.  Oh, and it had to be stained to go with the rest of the kitchen.  I tried to talk her into painting it so it would stand out but she wanted it stained, so stained is what she got. 

I'm happy with how it turned out.  Better yet, so was my client!  It's hard to tell, but there is an edge to the front side of the shelves so things don't roll off of it.  And the edge at the back of the shelves is for hanging it on the wall.  Each shelf has a back support to it that has been routered out and the shelf slides into that space and then is screwed from the back side into the shelf to give it strength and to secure it to the wall.  Then when you put things on the shelf, the screws won't be seen.  Sometime I'll show you how I do that.  Well, thanks for stopping by.

Dining room shelves...

Hi Everyone!  Happy Friday!  I'm working on a few projects but don't have anything completed to share with you, so I thought I'd take you on a tour of the shelves in my dining room.  My dining room is not your typical dining room.  When my grandparents first moved into this house, this room would have been the living room.  But in the 1960's, my grandfather added a living room onto the house along with a bathroom (the only bathroom had been in the basement which at one point was the cellar but that's a whole other story).  So this room became know as the front room.  It's the room that the front door opens into.  I will have to see if I can find pictures of the house when I moved it.  I turned this room into the dining room.  I added cedar shelves that go around the room up by the ceiling so I could display some of the things I found in the storage room or the crawl space in the basement.

I also added rope light that goes completely around the room at the back of the shelves to light the things on the shelves.  But it's kind of hard to see it (see the light peeking out behind the curtain to the right of the picture.  There's an old school bell, some old bottles, an antique iron, and an old wooden bowl to highlight a few items.

It's kind of hard to tell, but there is an antique stapler leaning next to the crock with the pip berry tree on it.

The container with the grapes hanging over it is an antique syrup bucket.

I have several antique scales, but this is the only one that would fit on this shelf.  The item that is cut off in the picture is an antique oil lamp without the glass chimney. 

My great-great aunt Nina's camera next to an old lunch box.  I should take those down and get some close up pictures of them.  They are both really cool.

An old enamel pot and lid, next to a wooden scoop and of course a birdhouse that my mother decorated and gave to me.

The jar on the left is filled with different sizes and colors of perm rods.  They belonged to my Aunt Nancy.  She was a hairdresser and her daughter cleaned them and put them in jars and gave one to my mom, to my brother's wife, and to me.  So every time I see them, I think of her.  The horse belonged to my great uncle Cecil.  He use to work at the local lumber yard and gave me a lot of wood and hardware that he had stored in his garage.  I of course made the dream sign on a scrap of wood. 

And of course a sign fits nicely on the shelf.  I don't have a picture of the room as it is now because I'm moving furniture around on the floor.  I'll take one and show you the before and after pictures once I'm done with it.  Well, thanks for stopping by.