Towering Shelf

Oh, I couldn’t pass this prompt up!

I had this deep desire to create a bookshelf! Not just any shelf, I needed it to illuminate light. I’ve had dark and mysterious shelves and I just got bored with them. Books and nicknacks and dust, dust, dust! Gets trapped and forgotten in the dark corners of the traditional styled shelf, so I created a simple, yet statement piece that I get to enjoy seeing every single day!

It had to be towering to scale the room, 7.5ft tall is what I settled on. I push the envelope with everything I do so as big as we can go. Go bigger, lol!

I create imperfect pieces making things by hand, none of the shelves are the same size.

I hit a learning curve when ordering my custom glass shelves. One universal size would suffice.

Sanding everything down by hand and attaching the shelf rest was the most time consuming part of the process. The sanding between paint also sent me into a tizzy.

I used Joanna and Chips, Magnolia chalk spray paint from Lowe’s. 5 cans and this is the color black. It is not black at all. It definitely appears in the navy family of colors.

My shelves are perfectly aligned. 🙂 I impressed myself with the execution of this project! I put this thing together, ok! It came out really great!! Like I said earlier, I just enjoy looking at my shelf. I get a satisfying feeling adding new things to it. I’ve done a few more solo projects since this beauty and I’m looking forward to sharing those as well.

I can do whatever I set my mind to, 🙂