DIY: organization as artwork.

when we first got nashville as a married couple,

johnny and i had to figure out how to share a bathroom for the first time.

i was used to having my own bathroom in a house full of women,

so throwing my makeup all over the sink and cabinetry was

{and is} sort of second nature to me.

johnny, on the other hand, was used to the exact opposite.

at first, i tried to keep my everyday products in a pretty lucite tray

and the rest of my supplies in the drawer, closet

or dusty caboodle i'd literally owned since high school.

we soon discovered two problems . . .

1/ we couldn't decide what to do with the huge wall in the bathroom and

2/ not having easy access to all of my products was more of a

bother than i anticipated.

our solution: shelving for my makeup.

the goal was to arrange everything in a palette complimentary

to what we already had established in the room

in a way that offered some visual interest . . . i wanted to keep things

light and pretty without being overly girly.

we purchased a set of mountable shelves and two glass containers

from the home supplies department . . . all at target.

we found a pretty bowl at world market for my larger compacts

and used an extra vintage drinking glass from an odd set i'd owned for years.

since i don't possess too many products, we only needed a couple of items,

and the entire project cost less than $25.

i think the results is rather lovely and absolutely functional.