big living room update, summer at home, weekday lunch routine ｜ Homebody Diaries

So, I've been waiting for this to arrive for the last four months. And it is finally here. If you can't tell with the very blank wall behind me, this is the huge shelving system that I talked about a while ago when I first rearranged my living room. I always really liked the idea of, if you guys have seen like mid-century homes, you'll notice that a lot of them have these really cool unified, some of them built in shelving systems. I wanted to recreate that on this wall. So I picked up this shelving system from String Shelving. Super super excited to put it together and I think it's going to look really really great. Let's do it. I get it. Okay. Sorry. Okay, it is finally done. This did take two full days in case you noticed the living room lighting has changed. Ignore the fact that I'm wearing the same outfit. I could not be happier with how this turned out. I feel like it filled up this wall in exactly the way that I was envisioning it. Technically there is more clutter or stuff here compared to before but because it's one unified system, I just feel like it looks way cleaner and just much more put together and then obviously it gives me so much more space to put all of my trinkets and stuff because I do have so many of them. Let me give you guys a quick little shelf tour. Okay, there is someone using a leaf blower outside but hopefully you guys can't hear that. So as I mentioned, one of the really cool things about the shelf is that it's a cohesive system so you can see it's actually just made up of these four metal side panels that equally distribute the weight to the floor here and then they're also screwed into the wall in two spots. Once those four are in place, you can actually interchange or swap the layout of anything in here including getting different types of shelves, getting more shelves, putting on less shelves. I decided to just stick with the kind of like the default configuration. You can see on the bottom it comes with this sliding door which I'm using to just hide extra boxes and storage and stuff like that. Above that, there is this sort of diagonal rack for showing off books. It's at the perfect height where when you're walking by, you can kind of just take a browse, look through what's in here. On top of that rack, there are three identical sort of just regular flat shelves, portable lamps, some plants, a bunch of my Legos and then yeah, that configuration is just repeated three times. Only thing left now is to move the rest of the living room back in place so that it's all in front of the shelf and see how that looks but honestly, it already looks so good. I'm pretty sure it's going to look awesome with everything in place too.