In addition to my craft storage at the laundry room sink, I have two pretty shelves for extra storage. These two shelves are on the opposite side of the room and high up out of the kids reach. The top shelf is over 7 ft above the ground. You have to use a step stool to reach stuff up there, but that is the point to keep everything away from the kids. I put stuff I do not need to access often on the top shelf. On the bottom shelf I keep more frequently used items.
I used wire mesh magazine files to hold all my craft books. The magazine files work great to save space instead of using book ends. The lime bucket is holding decorative edge scissors. The bamboo napkin holder is stocked with envelopes of varying sizes. Behind it is a plastic storage container with little clear drawers. I use the little drawers to hold paperclips, safety pins, eyelits, hot glue gun sticks, snaps, grommets, etc. The little Singer tin holds all my most frequently used sewing notions.
I bought the unfinished pine stair treads and corbels at Home Depot. They were each $10. So for two 36″ pine stair treads and 4 corbels, the total was $60. I painted them to match our trim color (Divine White by Sherwin Williams). I mounted the corbels to the wall with the included hardware and some wall anchors. I topped the corbels with the stair treads. I love the bullnose (rounded front edge) of the stair treads.
The bullnose and the corbels make for a pretty profile. I love easy and pretty storage!
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These look so great! And the price ain’t too shabby either! Definitely saving this for later!
I love your blog! Since I found it, I check it out regularily. Below your shelf is a beautiful bulletin board. Did you make it or buy it?
Stephanie,
I will do a post soon on the bulletin board. It is cork board tiles mounted to the wall with a decorative metal screen screwed on top. The only reason I have not shared it yet, is some of the cork tiles have come loose. I think the mounting strips that come with the tile are not that good. Once I find a fix for that I will definitely share.
Love these shelves! So on my to-do list…aka my pinterest list…hahaha, gotta love pinterest!
Fantastic idea – love it!
Kelly
I just love your blog!! I stumbled upon from the Shabby Nest. I hope you have some time to stop by our linky party this week!! xoxo Debbie at http://www.inspiredhoneybee.blogspot.com/2012/01/pinterest-thon-linky-party-3.html
I love these shelves!! I found you on TT&J tonight, and I’ve never seen your blog before… it’s beautiful! Can’t wait to start looking around :)
These are beautiful! Thanks for sharing.
Love these shelves. We are working on something similar for our office. Thanks for a great idea. I also like your wall colour. Is it that sunken pool colour you have listed on the side bar?
Thanks Anu. Yes the laundry room is painted in Sunken Pool. It is such a nice and refreshing color!
Clever… and so cute!
Love these shelves! Found you on tater tots and jello
Hi! I found you over at TT&J. So glad I did! I LOVE your shelves, color choices, curtains…and I need a giant pair of scissors! Where did you find yours?
…off to see the other great posts on your site! :)
Krista @ mk inspired
Krista,
The scissors are from Hobby Lobby. They are made of resin. They are normally $19.99, but they always have a 40% coupon on line. They don’t have a hook for hanging them on the wall, so I used Command Strips. Thanks for stopping by.
Thanks Jackie!:)
Great idea… love them! I’m featuring them in the PoPP Spotlight this weekend. Thanks for linking up.
Thank you for the feature Maryann! Your wonderful readers have been stopping by to comment!
Love the shelves. I’m working on plans to update my pantry with bead-board on the walls and brackets to support each shelf similar to yours. Love the combination of Sunken Pool and White. Thanks for sharing.
So creative! Love it!
What a clever idea to make the shelves from stair treads! Love them!
Great idea to use the stair treads! I have three left over from our stair remodel; now I may know what to do with them ;-)
I would have never in a million years thought about stair treads! Fantastic!
I love this shelving. I am wanting to do something just like this in my kitchen. I don’t know why but I never look at Home Depot just Loews and they are right across the street from each other!
This is a great idea. The stair treads make perfect shelves.
Ruth
How creative! The shelves looks great and you styled them so nicely.
Love it so I pinned it :)
Where did you get the metal screen that covers the bulletin board?
Nora,
The metal screen is from Home Depot. I was hoping it was magnetic, but no luck. So I mounted for to the wall and then added the screen. I need to do a post about the cork board soon.
Where did you buy the gorgeous green curtains I see next to the stair tread shelves? Great site by the way!
Susie, I made the curtains. You can read all about it here: http://www.tealandlime.com/2011/06/laundry-room-no-sew-drapes/
The fabric was an amazing sale find at Joanns. 100% linen for $7/yd. unfortunately that fabric has no markings in the selvedge to tell you what the print is. The silver lining for me, was with beautiful clean selvedge edges I did not even hem the side of the fabric for the drapes.
Anyone else know what the fabric is? Or who makes it?
Thanks so much! Went to JoAnn Fabrics yesterday and couldn’t find the fabric, so if anyone knows where i can get it, please let me know. Thanks!
Thanks for the great idea. I’m going to use it in my office! I’ve already got the corbels and stair tread; just wondered how you attached the stair to the corbel? A screw down through the top? Also, did you mount yours to studs? I see you have books on there; mine won’t be going into studs so I’m trying to gauge how much weight it will hold.
Hi Nora. My corbels were not in studs either. I used drywall anchors to screw into and that worked well. You can get wall anchor kits at Target or Home Depot. I did not attach my stair treads to the corbel, I just laid them on top and they have not moved a bit. If they were lower or within reach of my kids I would have screwed them into the corbels from the top to prevent them from being pulled off.
Would love to see pictures when you get your shelves done!
Thanks for the info and I will send you pics when I get them finished!