I am always up for some good shelving. Unfortunately floating shelves haven't ended up being a priority in our decorating budget. I decided, money or not, I really wanted a shelf above the little desk that we have in our bedroom. So I made one out of a cardboard box. I had a really sturdy shoebox lying around, so I simply cut the end off the cover, angled the corners and covered it with my favorite sturdy wrapping paper from Ikea. Covering the corners was a little tricky and took some patience, but it's hung pretty high up so you can't see the imperfections. Of course a cardboard shelf doesn't do much for our book collection, but it makes a perfect little decorative display for some photo mats and a little mahogany buffalo.
I think it adds a little height and interest to the wall over the desk.
We've also had this big blank wall in our apartment for the two and a half years that we've lived in this apartment:
This September we bought two large photographs of Zion National Park for ourselves for our first wedding anniversary. They came mounted on museum board but not framed. For the last five months they've been sitting in our bedroom just waiting for a mischievous cat to take a good swipe at them. Needless to say we've been getting pretty anxious to get them up on the wall, but with no budget for custom framing I had to resort to other methods. There was no way I was going to ruin the photos or museum board with double stick tape or by sticking tacks through it, so I ended up simply tacking the top and bottom of the pictures with nails:
It ended up working really well and is a great temporary way to get the photos off the floor and fill that empty wall at the same time.
Little things like this freshen up and add new life to a living space and of course save money for bigger and better things!
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