A few days before the new year, I had this overwhelming urge to renovate my bedroom. I resumed a Pinterest addiction that was reminiscent of 2010 and scoured pins of pillow arrangements, rugs, and window treatments, hoping to find ideas that I could {straight up} copy. I rushed out of the office early on New Year’s Eve with this pin and this pin fresh in my mind. And at my first stop, Homegoods, I found nothing.
I lapped around the store a second time, remembering why my previous decorating attempts had failed so miserably. Always in a rush, I resorted to picking items that fit an image that I liked, but not an image that I loved for me. And then I stumbled upon a cluster of olive green pillows {green is my favorite color} and went from there, picking up only items that really worked, leaving everything else behind.
Two days, intermittent Pinterest guidance, and eight stores later – my bedroom was almost complete. And then it hit me, the need for a plant shelf {more green} on the only remaining blank wall. The ninth store, Ikea, would be the start of one of my favorite designs ever: a bookshelf desk.
A bookshelf desk that, furnished, would cost less than $150.
- (2) EKBY GÄLLÖ & (3) EKBY AMUND
- Mount so the bottom shelf is at 30″ above the floor
- (5) various plants
- (3) white ceramic plant pots
- (1) basket weave plant pot {spray painted gold}
- (1) wood plant pot {clad with decorative paper and mod podge}
- (1) watering can {spray painted gold}
- books {mix of vintage and modern}
- postcards {that my vacation self set to my real-life self}
- stationary
- candles
- other ideas: clocks, bookends, picture frames, records
A how-to for the wood/floral plant pot and a “reveal” post are in the works, so keep an eye out! In the meantime, here are a few of the shelving pins that I used for inspiration: pin 1, pin 2, pin 3, pin 4.