Alphabet Wall Art and Wall Mount Book Shelves

The kids' room is definitely coming together. (You can see some more posts here and here.) My parents visited this weekend and helped us to knock some more off of the to do list. One of the projects my dad and Mr. Cherry finished up was the wall mount book shelves. I had been looking for ideas for Peachy's books that we keep in the room for bedtime reading. Since the room is quite full, adding a book shelf wasn't an option.

Then blogland came through for me. I started seeing these posts about using Ikea spice racks as small wall mounted book shelves in children's rooms. It was the perfect solution and the $4 price only added to their appeal. We made a quick detour to Ikea on our way to Mr. Cherry's parent's house last month and the shelves were mine! All I had to do was paint them and have Mr. Cherry install them.

 I decided to add some sort of artwork above the shelves. In the end I made an alphabet print which I framed in a white frame from Michaels. (The mat was white when I purchased it, but I painted it aqua to set off the print.)

Edited: I wanted to share the alphabet poster with you, and first uploaded to docstoc. However, it appears that you can't access it without paying for a membership. I have since uploaded it to Google Docs. Hope that this works for everyone and sorry for any inconvenience. You can find the free download here.

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