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Meet our new living room
13Jun2008 Filed under: Homely
The magic shelves
Originally uploaded by .Ariel.
My outlaw mother has just about finished the shelves she built in our living room. I am in organizational heaven right now, just gazing at them and dreaming how all our books and plants and tchochkes will sit.
We are so blessed!
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Hey there. I'm Ariel Meadow Stallings, a native Seattleite who's written my way up and down the Left Coast. Electrolicious is where I post daily randomata, but I also write for a living. My first book, Offbeat Bride, was published last year.
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Michelle
June 13th, 2008 at 9:02 am
Wow. I’m so envious of that. It’s amazing. I can’t wait to see how it looks with books and other things. Your outlaw mother does great work.
Kate
June 13th, 2008 at 9:12 am
Impossibly beautiful! Oh the organizational fun you’ll have…!
Gette
June 13th, 2008 at 10:42 am
That is too awesome for words. I would love something like that!
Starrie
June 13th, 2008 at 11:24 am
That is gorgeous! The wood stain looks fabulous with the wall color.
Hi Ariel. My name is Starrie… we spoke via email briefly about a year ago.
Ranee
June 13th, 2008 at 11:51 am
Absolutely gorgeous! I’d kill for a room like that.
Joy
June 13th, 2008 at 11:54 am
WOW. It is indeed magical. It’s beautiful!
I looked at Nancy’s site — my goodness, such beautiful craftsmanship. I want to have them all.
Phyllis
June 13th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Excellent use of space! Congratulations.
Mark
June 13th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
Gorgeous!
Steph
June 13th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Oh, fabulous! I hope you’ll post more pictures when you’ve got stuff on them!
Liz
June 13th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Ooo, I’m jealous! Really beautiful.
Emily
June 13th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
From Nancy’s bio: “Back in Iowa, I spent three interesting months learning the basics of fine furniture making at the Maharishi School of Management in Fairfield.”
Wow - I grew up in Fairfield and went to the Maharishi School for kids! Does she practice T.M.?
Lu
June 13th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Wow! Itś amazing. It looks so good, specially with all the little details (the shelves are not the same across all four “partitions”, and I love the tine one tha’s on the top left of a regular sized shelf, not to speak of the laptop table thing!). The wood color is gorgeous. And just imagine all the books that can fit there!
Brianne
June 13th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
Lovely! Ahh, to have a decoratable living room… I really hope I’ll be allowed to paint at my next apartment!
KG
June 14th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
These took my breath away. Really — I let out a, “Whooo,” when I saw them. We’re looking for just such a configuration, and this is inspiring. Such good energy, too!
I don’t have an outlaw mother to build ours, so I’ll have to get a little creative on that part of it, but now I have some visual direction. Thank you for sharing these!
mykie
June 16th, 2008 at 5:50 am
that’s awesome!
Jo
June 16th, 2008 at 11:35 am
Those are beautiful! The color of the stain againt your walls is such a great combination. I’m so envious!
lily
June 17th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
nancy is my hero.
rachel
June 19th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
beautiful…where are you gonna put your couches???
SolShine7
June 28th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Amazing! It looks great.