Antique Shutter Love

And there she was just looking at me. That little shutter nestled between two others. I had been walking the antique store trying to find something good. I didn’t know I needed this, but she did. I picked her up and took her to front; to find out how much. $5 was a steal for this old shutter so I loaded it up and brought it home.

I couldn’t just leave the natural wood. I know it is beautiful but it just didn’t work for the space I wanted to incorporate it too. So go check out my youtube video on spray paint to see my method of madness to spray painting. I used Kilz primer first and then my Krylon spray paint. I chose the color sea foam and loved how it turned out.

I knew I needed some kind of gallery wall at my entry. I wanted this shutter to be a part of that. I went to Ikea and found a bunch of white frames. I got home and played with the layout until I liked the look. Here is an easy tip. Use push pins to initially hang your frames for your gallery wall. It will hold light weight frames well enough to get an idea of how it is going to look. After you have the placement down you can use a real nail. Honestly, I still leave the push pins to hold the picture if it isn’t heavy. There was this really weird shaped frame that fit great into my gallery from Ikea. The only problem was finding a long rectangle shape picture to fit into it. All the pictures would be expensive to print that size. I wanted to use this frame because the shape just fit perfectly on my gallery wall. So I got out some left over fabric from upholstering my piano bench. I put into the frame and cut off the excess. Perfect! I can’t believe I didn’t think of it sooner. Easy cheap solution for those odd size frames.

I also found a cute vintage looking key hanger/holder at Hobby Lobby. I thought this would fit in well with my gallery wall. I brought it home and gave it the same paint job as the shutter. I love how it all came together. I’m not sure if I will be using this gallery wall in the new house but it sure worked great for our townhouse. Also, this cute hanging lantern is from amazon. I got some similar ones from the Oakwood Homes design center that I can’t wait to see go up at our new house.

You never know what you will come home with from an antique shop…..