bookshelf with colored panels

Lately, we’ve stumbled on some cool ways to bring color to shelves. We saw BM’s Junior line of furniture and thought: why don’t we just paint the backs of our shelves in color blocks to wake them up a bit? And then we saw the reverse in action: just the edges painted a color…

photo: mondobloggo

Top photo via Design Milk; Bottom photo via Mondobloggo

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3 replies on “giving subtle color life to shelves

  1. Hey that’s swell. Totally love your blog!

  2. Hey, why don’t you guys come over to my house!!!!!

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