Before and After - Family Room

This is a subtle before and after.
This is a result of a small paint job, a little organization and a bit of 'styling'.

Here are my family room built-ins:

Not bad, but there's potential for better.
Particularly if I folded my laundry before taking the photo.

I get e-mails from Style At Home Magazine about inexpensive makeovers.  The one I got last week was about "Styling Your Bookshelves".  

It hadn't occurred to me that they needed styling until I got this e-mail.  (That's good marketing!)

I surfed Pinterest and sure enough, my built-ins weren't pin-worthy.

At the very least they needed dusting. 

Now, because I had organized all of my extra paint, I knew that I had a jar of BM's Amazon Soil lying around.  Not enough to paint the whole room, but enough to paint the back of the bookshelves.

I didn't paint the bottom section because they house Hubby's surround sound speakers and I thought he might flip out get a little upset if I painted those.

I also noticed that the majority of bookcases I admired had even shelving all the way across.

Mine were staggered.

Not that this is wrong - I was fitting the shelves to the contents - but for a geometrically pleasing look, I guess you're supposed to fit the contents to the shelves.
What do I know?

So you tell me, knowing that this entire project only took a couple of hours and zero dollars, was it worth it?

If nothing else, the room is dusted, laundry put away and bookshelves purged.

That's better than when I woke up this morning! 

A RAK emerged from this - all of the purged books were donated to my local library!




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