Unadorned beige walls and the lack of a focal point made the living room feel blah and haphazard.
The Project Tally: • Added wainscoting made from 6½-inch-wide tongue-and-groove pine planks $222 • Painted the wainscoting and the walls above $110 • Made a media cabinet using pine boards for the frame, hinged cabinet doors made to look like apothecary drawers, and a barn-wood top $72 • Customized a room divider with cabinet doors left over from a kitchen reno, new hardware, and pine shelves $31 • Built wall-mounted shelves using leftover pine and home-center corbels $12 Total: $447
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