{"id":1171,"date":"2010-11-18T12:56:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T12:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gingiber.com\/painted-bookshelf-2\/"},"modified":"2010-11-18T12:56:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T12:56:00","slug":"painted-bookshelf-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/?p=1171","title":{"rendered":"painted bookshelf"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_QUKI7v2vaF0\/TOUdkmihEoI\/AAAAAAAACcI\/Ywywdb5-220\/s1600\/IMG_3426e.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_QUKI7v2vaF0\/TOUdkmihEoI\/AAAAAAAACcI\/Ywywdb5-220\/s1600\/IMG_3426e.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>A few weeks ago, I had one of those days where I felt like my living room was BLAH and unbalanced. I am also in the process of decluttering our &#8220;junk room&#8221; so that I can have a proper workspace. So I decided to take an ugly laminate bookshelf from said junk room and paint it. I painted the exterior a nice espresso brown, and the back of the case a dreamy blue (the same blue I used on my<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gingibersnap.com\/2010\/10\/chairs-progress.html\"> front door<\/a>).<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_QUKI7v2vaF0\/TOUd7JFkKgI\/AAAAAAAACcM\/EZ3Jiky-4Gw\/s1600\/IMG_3425e.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_QUKI7v2vaF0\/TOUd7JFkKgI\/AAAAAAAACcM\/EZ3Jiky-4Gw\/s1600\/IMG_3425e.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Then I took to the web for tips on proper arrangement of pretty things on a bookshelf. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apartmenttherapy.com\/\">Apartment Therapy<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.younghouselove.com\/\">Young House Love<\/a> were the most helpful in helping me pick things from around my house and using them to create a cohesive space (hint: less is more).<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_QUKI7v2vaF0\/TOUe40CjI3I\/AAAAAAAACcQ\/0ADOp0OIeKE\/s1600\/IMG_3421e.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_QUKI7v2vaF0\/TOUe40CjI3I\/AAAAAAAACcQ\/0ADOp0OIeKE\/s1600\/IMG_3421e.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The end results were quite nice and the bookshelf now resides in the corner of our living room. I quite like it. Now, it is really difficult to paint laminate, as it chips easily. But I was on a mission to do it. I used paint I already had at home and some sandpaper to try and improve the life of the paint. But who knows! For now, it is just right!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, I had one of those days where I felt like my living room was BLAH and unbalanced. I am also in the process of decluttering our &#8220;junk room&#8221; so that I can have a proper workspace. So I decided to take an ugly laminate bookshelf from said junk room and paint [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[313,18,19,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookshelf","category-decorating","category-diy","category-house-tour"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}