After waiting only nine weeks (!) and enduring lost of dust, we have our bedroom bookcases in! The room has undergone quite a transformation with painting the walls, adding the built-ins (complete with a sconce for each of us), and relocating the huge armoire we bought a few months ago from the bedroom to the living room (it's now a coat closet).
Here's the "before" photos of the first floor bedroom before we bought the house. It has the previous owner's tenants' stuff in it still.
And here's the room now. We painted the walls a color called Dark Granite from Behr. It's pretty dark, but with two windows, the Moon Rise (basically white) bookcases, and white bed linens, it's a nice contrast. We get a lot of compliments on this wall color from painters, contractors, electricians, air duct cleaners, and our realtor (we've had a lot of people in our bedroom!).
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The hardware came from Anthropologie. I love mercury glass and these looked old (which I wanted). Finally, the sconces came from a great website called the House of Antique Hardware. We wanted the bookcases to look original to the house, so we needed to stick with the simple, small-scale Cape Cod feel.
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Now we just have to figure out what to put on the shelves. :)
