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…

Top photo via Design Milk; Bottom photo via Mondobloggo
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Here’s another take on shelf decoration. We stapled strips of Mexican oil cloth on the front of some utility shelves made from scrap wood. Spruced em up!
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