Gallery ledges

Joe and I have discovered Ana White.  She is a blogger and author who builds her own furniture.  She puts her furniture plans online and we have bought her book.  We have a list of things that Joe is going to build.  We decided to start simple though before we get to the jewelry armoire that Joe is going to build me.

We are starting with a gallery ledge.  We originally planned to do one long gallery ledge over the giant window in our living room but then we decided that would be too heavy.  Joe came up with the idea of splitting it up into 3 gallery ledges that we would just space apart above the window.

Joe put the ledges together and we chose a off-white color that is similar to our fireplace mantel to paint the ledges.

The next step (after they dried) we had to bring them in to pre-drill holes so we could install them.

Joe started plotting where to put the holes.

The shelves go in....

Then I had to plot what we were going to put in them......the best part about gallery ledges?  We can switch out the pictures we have up there whenever we want!

And yes, we are watching King of Queens at this time......