Painting oak built ins

If you don't have built-ins in your bedroom, this may convince you to add them! This blue-green paint color and white oak shelves are our favorite. It's the perfect example of how to style a shelf!

The DIY Built-In Shelves are DONE! Here's exactly how we did it, what we'd do differently, and the tutorials that helped!

You've already seen glimpses of these built-ins, but I'd like to go back periodically and show you some before and afters of a few projects that I've done prior to starting this blog. See the tall section completely covered by doors? When we bought the house the section in the middle was just a big opening for the television. I can't stand trying to make it look "pretty" around a tv, so we had some doors made to match the ones that were already there to conceal the tv. It's such a cleaner…

How to paint bookshelves and cabinets for this den fireplace makeover on week 3 of the $100 room challenge.

If you follow Practically Spoiled, you’ll see I’m on a mission of complete oak-elimination from my house. (See my gel stained oak banister makeover here and my painted oak vanity bathro…

Afraid to paint built ins? No more! This built in bookcase makeover proves -yet again- that paint is an affordable option that really makes a statement.

Kristy Letterly | DIY + Home + Design on Instagram: "Living Room Built Ins Part 2! Building shelves is actually easier than you think! But these solid oak boards are no joke, they are HEAVY. Next up I need to add the backs and some frames to the front, and then we paint! What color do you think we should paint these built ins? Follow @designingparkside to see the rest of this project come together! @weaberlumber #weaberlumber #makeitweaber #DIYprojects #doityourself #diyhomeprojects…

Black Birch Homes & Design on Instagram: “White oak was made to be paired with dark paint colors 🖤 . . 📸 @classicgrayhome”

Revamp your space: Modernize old built-ins and shelves effortlessly.

These built-ins were a wonderful part of our home, but we knew they needed to be updated. These refinished built-ins make the Mabey Manor front room amazing.

DIY is always a slow moving train around here. Between the two of us working full time, a 8 month old, and year-round softball - life is one huge time suck and there just isn't much time or energy leftover for house projects. I had to scroll all the way back to December 2016 in…

A trendy and enviable feature of the dreamiest, most layered-looking living rooms and home offices out there these days? Wall-to-wall built-ins. They’re ideal for displaying book collections, travel tschotchkes, frames, and photos. Although custom built-ins can be expensive, clever DIYers have shown us that it’s possible to modify big box shelving to get the same look.

Farrow & Ball Blue Gray Paint on Library Built-In Book Shelves.

We love all the molding we added to our new built-in bookshelves in our home office.

How to use affordable, unfinished stock kitchen cabinets to create DIY built in storage and bookcases.

The easy way to makeover ugly oak built-in bookcases WITHOUT striping or sanding! And it looks like a professional did it!

How I created built-ins using stock upper kitchen cabinets in our cottage.