My Over-the-Top Dining Room Cabinet January 4, 2009
I bought this cabinet about a year ago. It spent months lookly sad and bare because I was coveting some really cool plates that I knew I shouldn't buy. So, I crazied it up myself over the summer. I was playing with my new camera today wanting to take pics of something with lots of color and remembered that I never shared pictures of my over-the-top dining room cabinet. I've reaffirmed my knowledge that pictures taken with a camera flash just aren't great. Natural light is amazingly better, but I had to use a flash in this room.
I put a different fabric (my fave thing of course!) behind each shelf.
On the top shelf is a gorgeous plate from a really unique etsy shop called Love, Lindsey.
No one who sees this in my home gets the plate on the second shelf, so I'll explain… There are FOUR of us!! I just stuck a decal I bought from Lowes on there. The salt and pepper shakers took a ton of time. I had to go through a zillion magazines to find black-only prints of S's and P's. And finally, a too-cute stuffed fabric bird in black and white.
On the bottom shelf I placed the felt cupcakes I made a while back. I told the girls not to touch them and amazingly they haven't. The 'cake stand' is a simple green plate from Target sitting on top of an upside down candlestick holder. If these were real cupcakes, or a glass plate, I'd have glued the plate onto the candlestick holder.
This really epitomizes my style. I love, love, love color. It makes me happy. I could never have white walls in my home. In fact, I wish painting were easier. I'd change our wall colors every year or so.










