The Nook and the Old Ladder

We have lived in this home for 7+ years. For 7+ years I’ve tried to figure out what to do with this “nook” in our master bedroom.  Here it is, as it was up until a few weeks ago:

Love the teal shadow boxes, the teal and silvery lamp, the Ballard Design Eiffel Tower full of family memories.  And the Norman Rockwell has tons of sentimental value, but…not here.  I needed something with some dimension to fill the space between my MIL’s writing desk and the wall.

And, for MANY MORE than the 7+ years we’ve lived here, “we” have had an old ladder that we jammed into our car and drove several hours with it wedged between the front seats—happy memory :)  (well, for me, anyway).  And for all those years I’ve had a nagging thought about what to do with it—other than keep it in the basement with the tons of other stuff precious belongings we have stored down there, including the theatre seat I just brought up and painted with AS Duck Egg and posted here.  If you’d like to take a peak at our basement, you can see it all here. 

So finally, for some reason, inspiration hit me:  The nook and the ladder! 

I wanted to hang pictures from it, so first I added eye hooks, being careful to turn them with pliers in an effort [read: not always successfully] attempt to not break them…

You’ll notice that the rungs aren’t flat, so nothing could be set on them, and I wasn’t about to try my hand at cutting flat boards and attaching them….no sireee…tooooo much trouble!

I attached the hooks at the top and bottom of each rung, planning to attach each picture at the top and bottom, with twine.  No go.  They didn’t hang right; they were angled back.

Now what?!  I was bound and determined to:

1. Fill the nook;
2. Use the ladder.

And this is what the Mother of Invention came up with:

For the first time in 7+ years (are you getting the drift here…it was SEVEN-PLUS years of frustration!!), I am finally happy with the odd nook (well, except that I’m not completely sold on the two pictures on the right wall being there). 

The ladder now “frames” four pictures of our favorite subjects—our baby chickadees!

To add a bit of of depth, and texture, (okay, and to use the hooks I’d taken the time to put in), I still used twine to tie sloppy, casual bows.

But I’m still wondering about one thing:  Now that I’ve painted the theatre seat in Annie Sloan Duck Egg…yes, you know where I’m headed…I’m wondering if a bit of that would look good on the ladder too.  I already have that color going there, so I’m just not sure.  What do you think?  Yes?  No?  Emphatic YES?  Emphatic NO?

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