Photo Ledge Made Easy

I love all these fun new ways to display pictures! Which is why chicken wire projects are such a big part of our apartment, but I also love cute frames. At Target there are always tons of frames on sale, and with a little luck a cartwheel discount to make them even cheaper. But in a small apartment there is very few table top places to display these adorable frames. Oh and hanging them on the wall is just way too generic for me. So Pinterest and Target introduced the photo ledge into my life. But $25 dollars just seemed way to much for a skinny shelf. That's not how we roll anyway, obviously we were going to find a better, cheaper, way to do it.

My way was to recreate the concept of the photo ledge but without the boring shelf that usually entails, and that high price. So it was off to the beach, to be honest the woods was also checked. Within the week I started looking I found the perfect piece of driftwood. Originally the plan was to cut out of the soft driftwood the ledge I needed but in this little gem nature had already taken care of that for me! Add my discount Target frames and a little free dried flowers, BAM photo ledge done the college chic way. 

College Chic Driftwood Photo Ledge

So the run down on this fabulous photo ledge goes like this: Actual wooden ledge, FREE!! Still makes me smile, and shelving hardware to install it was four dollars at Menard's.  So instead of $25 for a small fake wood photo ledge my large one cost me $4 and looks so much more unique. As for the rest of this wall the tennis racquets were a dollar each at Goodwill and the mirror was five dollars at a local thrift shop. And that is how you do chic on the cheap!