Shelving Updates

Both of our guest bathrooms have my mom’s signature shelving above the toilet.   It has become somewhat of a tradition that she builds these small units to place in the bathrooms of the houses she’s lived in through the years.  So, of course, I asked her to build some for me as well.   She built them several years ago and A mounted/hung them and I painted them.

I painted the shelves with two coats of Behr’s semi-gloss paint in Ultra White but after awhile I noticed some of the wood knots began to bleed through.  I did absolutely nothing about it but when I recently added my newly framed card to the shelves I finally decided to correct the situation.  See  all those brown spots where knots bled through?

I pulled out the can of Zinsser Bulls Eye 123 Primer that we used down in the basement and painted over all the knots.  Once that dried, I repainted with Behr’s semi-gloss again.  So far, so good.  Hopefully, that primer sealed the spots enough so we don’t experience any more bleed through.

I also took the opportunity to do some rearranging.  I haven’t mastered shelf arranging yet.  Still tweaking.   I may even paint the backs a different color.  But here’s where I ended up.

And since the guest bathroom upstairs had the same situation with wood bleed through, I did the same up there and did a little rearranging as well.
Have you mastered the art of styling shelves?  Have you updated anything with paint lately?
-J