It's been a few months since I posted about my friend Kim's desire to give her modern bookcases an updated look.
You offered some great ideas, including suggestions to use patterned wallpaper as backing for some of the openings, painting it a bold color and adding some bins to the shelves.
But in the end, Kim decided she needed to paint one of the walls behind the bookcase, not the bookcase itself. She used a gray-blue color that was leftover from a previous project (painting WALL-E tracks on the walls of her son's bedroom).
It was a great choice for the room and makes the light bookcase pop right off the wall.
Then Kim made several trips to her local Goodwill store to swap out some of her vases and bottles for others that coordinated better with the paint and furnishings. She also added musical notes to the walls, which go with several framed records that commemorate her husband's previous work in the music industry.
So what do you think? Did Kim make a good choice? And what would you do differently?
