A few weekends ago, while I was in the outskirts of Chicago shopping at outlet malls and IKEA with my mom, my fab husband and father-in-law did some shelf installation in our dining room:
We've had these Lack shelves for ages now, thanks to the lovely Lynn, but I've been nervous about hanging them, for fear that they wouldn't support anything properly and would come crashing off the wall in the middle of the night.
While my fears have been (thus far) largely unfounded ... I don't think it was an easy process to hang these, especially considering that's an exterior wall on our 100+ year old brick house.
But, they do look nice, don't they?
Now I'm in the process of trying to arrange/style the shelves properly. I'm leaning towards a mostly all-white look, mixed with some glass vessels (many from our wedding), but that could all change on a moment's whim ;o)
Since taking these photos, I've actually moved a few things around. I believe that round bowl on the far left of the middle shelf is now in the center position on the top shelf.
The cake stand (bottom shelf, far right) -- I have two other cake stands just like it, a medium and small size, that I can stack on top. I feel like that might look better than just a lone cake stand.
Anyway, what are your thoughts? Too matchy-matchy? It's definitely not there yet -- I may try to take some photos of other items throughout the house that I could put on the shelves in place of these items, and get some more opinions.
And if you're anxious for more whiteware, fear not, I have even more stashed away that can be brought out and displayed ;o)
Hi Ellen! I LOVE your wall color. And I love your shelves and how everything is white.
Gorgeous!
Posted by: Angie klenke | March 24, 2009 at 07:07 PM
Gorgeous! I'm so envious of your beautiful home, Ellen. :)
Love the shelves and I love all the whiteware. I was gonna suggest stacking cake stands, but I see you are already planning on doing that! What about adding a white lacquered mirror on one of the shelves? Or maybe a couple of white picture frames to break up a bit of the glass? Also, IKEA has these awesome small white planters - you could nab one and plant something small in it (maybe a succulent?). I think it would add a nice pop of green to the brown/gray and white.
I think we need to see more of your fabulous house!!
Posted by: Kristal | March 25, 2009 at 09:35 AM
Absolutely gorgeous, Ellen! I love it! The wall color, the white - just fabulous. Kristal has some great ideas for tweaking things, but your sure off to a great start :).
Posted by: Lisa | March 25, 2009 at 09:54 AM
The shelves look fab! I noticed on Martha's tv show set she has shelves filled with all white dishes/serving pieces...and one section is 3 cake stands side by side. But I like the stacked idea, too. I think you should play with adding more of the white. (And then I'm going to come over & steal your wall colors...heehee)
Posted by: Lynn | March 25, 2009 at 11:30 AM
It's gorgeous!!! I love all the white elements. :-)
Posted by: Maria | March 25, 2009 at 04:47 PM
I love white and grey together! Its such a perfectly clean combination! I saved this picture ages ago from another site and am glad to have found its origin :)
Posted by: Anny | June 15, 2011 at 08:17 PM