Can we build it?

Now that we  have more living space it is hard to not want to fill this house with more furniture.   We just keep reminding ourselves that we will soon be moving back into a smaller apartment and buying tons of furniture would be a bad idea.

To help fill the space we are making cheap design modifications that we can fit into a smaller home.  We decided to build a long old barn wood shelf.  Luckily the base has a wood shop that allows service members  access to all of their machines.

I am tickled that Clay knew how to use all of the machines (I was so confused when the guy was telling us what they do).

We did some distressing before we stained it to give it a reclaimed look.

(please ignore the random items on the bookshelf)

Here is the finished product!  We decided to decorate it with some of our favorite things including a photo my sister made of us, our cake topper and some driftwood we found off the Florida coast.  It was great fun to make something from scratch together!