My latest interior design-kitchen arrangement, one big wall is designed as shelving combined with black chalkboard wall.
To organize the kitchen and restore goods, old fruit crates are recycled and painted in colors as contrast to the black wall.
Whole project -painting the wall, painting crates and place them- took me less than 3 days.
Amazing what you can do with a bit of imagination and a creative bent. Your wall looks brilliant and you have the satisfaction of recycling. Great blog.
Thank you Paul, happy you liked it :)
I absolutely love this wall! The chalkboard wall really makes the shelving stand out in a great way. I’ve seen wall mounted wire shelving systems before that I’ve thought of recycling but I like having bright colors since the paint I have is pretty neutral. Do you have suggestions to brighten shelves like that up?
Hello Jennifer, sorry for late response. Thanks for your lovely comment !! I am very happy your liked the wall :) To brighten shelves, or any elements in decorations, to make things stand out what i do is choose colors contrast to pale-neutral color, which is flashy ones but do it while staying still in the same color palette. If I use warm neutrals as an example, lets say i have pale pink or saumon color, my second color would be a little bit flashy orange or flashy pink. So these two colors together work very well. I hope this… Read more »
To be a bit more clear about the color matches, with a little bit of twist in the palette, pale pink-carrot orange and pale salmon-flashy pink will be a good match.