Garage Sale Find to Book shelf

I've seen these at pottery barn kids

and I love them

I do not love the price of $39-$59

So I happened to have picked up 2 of these at a garage sale

last year for $5 for the both of them

(well not this exact one...I of course just didn't stop

to take a picture of mine before I started...but you get the idea)



So when I spied them in the garage under a pile

of junk odds & ends bought with the best of intention

I started thinking...

Then I ran over to our local habitat for humanity restore and

picked up a 4ft piece of skinny trim for $1.25

and a larger piece of pine trim for $2.50

since the air nail gun scares the bejeezes out of me

I asked my hubby to nail them together

which took a total of 6 min

I added some bright spray paint from my supply

 and now we have these

By the way I did not ask Lilly to pose

she did the whole Vanna White thing on her own

Of course we had to have one for Nolee's room too.

Check out that cheesy grin!

I love that she can reach them herself

I am absolutely loving these new bookshelves

The girls get to display their favorites

and I have read that kids actually read more

when you display books like this

I am also loving the fact that they cost me a total of

$8.75 for both

I'm thinking I will look for more shelves at garage sales

this year, and maybe do more of these

in their playroom!

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