When decorating your bathroom over as if it were a log cabin bathroom, adding shelving space is a true and traditional décor decision. In the olden days, the day of the traditional cabin home, shelves were an integral part of the bathroom and assisted the occupants in staying organized without huge construction costs.
Decide first what you are going to use the shelving storage for in your bathroom, then work with your available wall space to accommodate your needs. If you don’t have a vanity or bathroom closet, but you have many bathroom items, you’ll want to create long, deep shelves that can hold baskets, tins, and smaller perhaps antique cabinets – these are all perfect and in theme to cabin decor.
Shelves can also store towels, facecloths, cleaners, cosmetics, personal appliances (i.e. blow dryers, curling irons, shavers, etc.) When arranged well the items on your shelves become decorative items in themselves and give your cabin inspired bathroom a look of authenticity.
Don’t rule out other items such as house plant, scented candles, or personal collections.
One major consideration to make before building shelves is knowing what items you will want to place on those shelves and how sturdy you need to make them. Pre-estimating the load of items you want to put on the shelf is ideal.
Cabin decor shelves are often best made of wood – not perfectly sanded or knot free. In fact some of the most beautiful shelves I’ve seen in a cabin bathroom are rounded at the corners (through sanding) and hammered for visual appeal before staining and painting.
Consider using specialty paint (crackle or antiqued) products and any vintage wood stain or colors. (Check with your specialty paint store for more ideas.) Any wood is acceptable for shelving – pine, oaks, maple, hardwood, redwood, etc.
There are a number of ways to attach shelves to walls, but for cabin décor I suggest shopping around online for vintage iron brackets or newer ornate ones painted in neutral colors that match your walls or accents. White, cream, brown or black are perfectly acceptable neutral colors for wall brackets when using painted iron.
With brackets in hand, mark the hole placement on your walls before drilling into the wall surface being sure to adjust height and level opposite hole placements. Once pre-drilled, add a plastic wall anchor, check your level again and place the brackets.
All that’s left now is to lay your shelf on the bracket (or shelves on the brackets), add your personal items and enjoy your new cabin decor creation!
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