Well, I have a coworker coming over tomorrow to help but I'm not sure what would be best here.


I have the awesome shelves I can put on either side of the front door. But I do need a landing strip "bench" that I'm going to make out of IKEA white shoe cabinets. It's going to be an MDF box with shoe cabinets mounted on the sides and an upholstered top. Like Angie's upholstered storage ottomen.









However, it won't be nearly as pretty as the wood table I have their now. The walls around the couch will be orange and I could just paint orange around the window too. That way the no-so-pretty "bench" will not blend into white walls.

***OR***

I could scrap the shelving (which will definitly go somewhere else in the living space - I love it so) and do this cool shelving from IKEA which I really like too. This way the shelving is open so light gets through but sort of prevents people from looking in. They will walk by on the street and see the shelving with plants which will distract them from looking past the shelving. Here are some examples of the shelving set up different ways.





















Now do I balance it out with a unit on the other side of the door?






I'm thinking white shelving against the orange wall for the left side of the door (facing door). But what color for the right side of the door? The "bedroom" side? The bed is dark brown. I'm thinking dark brown shelving to go with the bed, thoughts?





Here is cool Cat Shelving made out of this shelving. It's in another language but the pictures are good.



http://ikeahacker.blogspot.com/search/label/pet%20furniture Past half way down the page


http://www.niksa.net/kuvat/kiipeilypuu Great Pictures of it


http://www.niksa.net/kiipeilypuu.html Forgin site


http://ikeahacker.blogspot.com/ Ikea Hacker site, neat things to make out of Ikea furniutre