08.15
2014

Two Big Projects in Jason’s Living Room (A Restoration Hardware Industrial Style Bookshelf and a Huge Notre Dame Sign)
We were able to make quite a bit of progress on my brother, Jason’s living room
while we were up visiting this summer. I think these two projects were
my favorite things we’ve done so far in his house. We spent a good bit
of our budget on this house earlier this year on fixing up the kitchen
and buying some basic furniture (like chairs in the living room, a rug, a
dining room table, dining chairs, etc.) so now that it’s time to
decorate the goal was pretty much to spend as little as possible.
Because we had quite a bit of wall space on either side of the sofa the
best solution to take up a good bit of space and not spend very much
money was to make things ourselves! 
 
Jason graduated from Notre Dame a couple of years ago and so adding an oversized Fighting Irish sign seemed like a fun idea. We used supplies that we already had so this project was completely free. And we worked on it together without driving each other crazy, which was “great teamwork” as Lillie and Lola like to say. Haha! We had this extra piece of wood from our kitchen island. We had used it as a temporary top to the island for the first year and then finally had the marble installed this spring so we had this extra piece of wood just sitting around.  For people that have asked – yes, we do hope to sell something similar to this in the future as well as some other college logos. We need to figure out the licensing part first though and once we do then we plan on making them for our shop. However, we will have other large wood signs for sale in the coming weeks.

To fill up the wall on the other side of the sofa I built this rustic Restoration Hardware inspired shelving system. I built this myself but poor Jason did quite a bit of cleaning up after me. In fact, I think he might still be cleaning up after me on this one.  As I am writing this I just remembered I never picked up the spray paint and boards from the backyard – whoops! Haha!

 It isn’t quite finished yet but it’s functional! I roughly used these plans from Ana White’s website, but changed the sizing a bit and did the shelves a little bit differently. We bought wheels for the base and I planned on adding them but the coffee table we ended up finding for the room had wheels too so we decided it might be a bit much having two pieces with wheels on them right next to each other in the same room. I think it looks like it’s missing something on the base though so I do plan on adding something I just haven’t decided what yet. And I still need to add the brackets on the corners. But for now it’s close enough to being finished. The tennis racquet and truck were my grandfather’s and then we added a bunch of baskets from HomeGoods to help store things like the girl’s puzzles and other little things.

You can get a little peek at some of the other items in the room in the photo above and below.

We will have a post with full room shots soon! And a detailed source list.

Source List:

Wall Color – Galveston Gray by BM in a matte finish
Trim – Simply White by BM in a semi-gloss finish
Doors – Wrought Iron by BM in semi-gloss
Bricks – Revere Pewter by BM in matte finish
Sofa – IKEA Ektorp
Pillow with Script – Twin Elm Farm Peterborough, NH
Striped Pillow and Black Pillow – White Home Market Wilton, NH
White Pillows – HomeGoods
Notre Dame Sign – Dear Lillie
Chair in Front of Sign – HomeGoods
Throw on Chair – Ikea
Little Side Table – Target
Vase – HomeGoods
Chairs – Joss and Main
Rug – Pottery Barn
Coffee Table – Joss and Main
Lamps – Target
Drapery Panels – IKEA
Industrial Looking Bookshelf – Dear Lillie
Tennis Racquet – Was our Grandfather’s
Truck – Was our Grandfather’s
Rest of Items on Shelf – HomeGoods

I hope you all have a lovely weekend! I can’t wait to share more images from Jason’s house next week.

Some Finishing touches to Lillie and Lola's Old Fashioned New England Bedroom
Some Progress in the Office at Jason's and a HomeGoods Pinterest Party
View Related Posts

Share

Project Source List

15 thoughts on “Two Big Projects in Jason’s Living Room (A Restoration Hardware Industrial Style Bookshelf and a Huge Notre Dame Sign)”

  1. Love the sign ! Consider one sold whenever available.
    Go Irish ! Beautiful room by the way, the shelving unit is remarkable.

  2. Love the sign. Great statement piece for the left wall. The RH knockoff shelving looks fabulous and I love that a few of the decorative pieces on there belonged to family.

  5. What a fabulous sign Jennifer! A wonderful piece of art and meaningful and special to Jason. I love Lillie and Lola's comment about your great teamwork. So cute! Jason's house is just beautiful. Enjoy your weekend!

  10. Love all of your work!!! This sign is incredible! My hubby is an ND grad, so we'll definitely be in the market for this sign when you start selling them!! Go Irish!!! 🙂 xxoo

  11. I love that shelf!! I've been looking EVERYWHERE for something simple and rustic but really haven't found much. Do you have any suggestions?

  12. Could you please share how wide, deep and tall the book shelf is as well as how you stained it? It also looks like you used 1×2's on the fronts and sides instead of 2×2's…is that correct?

  13. My hubby is a ND grad as well. Would you tell us how you made it? I have wood and a cricut machine. Did you use vinyl or paint? I'd love to try and make my own. Thanks!

Comments are closed.