By the way, Chris insisted that I at least pull that giant weed under the deck for this picture.

Start by putting together a basic shelving unit that you can pick up at any big box store or.Putting on the backing is always the last step.

Don’t do that step!.Next, run out to your local Home Depot, or other favorite hardware store and pick up one pack of basic pine beadboard.For the record, we also checked out the idea of doing beadboard wallpaper over the backing provided with the book shelf, but it turned out that the actual beadboard was much cheaper for a project this size.

One pack was about $15.. Now paint that beadboard a color of your choice!I went with a color called Dover Grey to match the dresser that we already have in the dining room.

It’s a good thing I never throw away paint because I’m pretty sure that the last time I used this can of paint was about 6 years ago.. Once the paint is dry, all you need to do is just nail or screw the strips in place, one by one!.

Yes, that’s really how our master bedroom looks right now, right in the middle of our big bathroom reno.1) I hosted another holiday dinner at my house and once again felt silly that I never take any photos of the fun little table set ups I do because they’re always just really basic, straight-forward, normal stuff.

But still, sharing is caring.. 2) I got a new camera that I really have no idea how to use, but I somehow managed to take a few OK (and some not-so-OK) pictures while I was playing around..This table was a little extra special because it was on an actual table and not those folding plastic banquet tables.

So that was neat.I was also able to use my Christmas plates that I bought for myself at the end of season last year along with the plates from this amazing china set one of my mother in laws gave me..