Well, last night finished putting lights on my "Vape Gallery". Every art gallery I've been in has had lights focused on their fine art. So, my MMADT's needed to be displayed with no less proper due respect!
All my vape gear and liquids are stored on the wall near a corner of the breakfast area of the kitchen where I spend most of my time on the computer. It first started with a small oblong box (18 1/2" long x 8 1/4 high x 5" deep) purchased at Hobby Lobby. Has 3 small drawers laterally across the front with picture framing around the front of the drawers with burlap glued inside stenciled with a design and a white ceramic knob smack dab in the middle of each drawer. The top of the box is enclosed with the back a bit higher and shaped like the arched backboard of some beds and the front cut out all the way across with minature chicken wire (believe it's "carpenter's cloth" which we became familiar with when chinking in the gaps of Alaska's dau. log cabin) inserted in the opening. The surface of the box is painted a matte black and sanded to show supposed wear on edges. We attached to wall and decided it needed bracing, so got a couple of black metal decorative brackets (the ones with those curliques) at Home Depot. A wall basket filled with fake ivy and some draping spanish moss hung above completed the project......We thought....
A couple of weeks later while eating dinner and admiring our handiwork decided we could expand the vape corner with a shelf below the box to set my alcohol in a reused olive oil green glass jug , q-tips in glass voltive holder, glass soaking jar, very small terra cotta flower pot for a catch all and matching terra cotta dish I fill with rounded cut paper towel material to lay coil heads to dry.
However, the brackets we use must align with the box brackets so the whole thing looks like one unit. Couldn't use the fancy brackets. Too long. The chair rail was in the way. So, simple L- brackets painted black and a scap piece of wood painted black did the trick. Hubby has a hard time understanding distressing a freshly painted anything. "Why paint it in the first place?" But he does understand a woman on a mission! Butta bing, butta bang, and I got my "work shelf". One hr of work, a day of planning of what would work right.
O-O-O-ka-a-ay, about a month after our new addition, and you know what's going to happen......We eat regular like and at the kitchen table and discussed how the only way we could expand the vape corner was to go up! Yes siree Bob, no sooner said than plans were discussed and materials listed which included scrap wood, black paint, and two curlique brackets. Two of the materials we had plenty . Meanwhile we go shopping at TJ Maxx and spot a basket about the same length and width of the shelf we're putting up and 4" deep. Perfect for storing more juices or anything else for that matter. All done the next day in short order 'cause by now we shorta know what we're doing. All the brackets line up. Looks like one shelving unit, and only the very tops of the 30 ml bottles show above the basket. It's looking good! We're patting ourselves on the back. Hubby thinks we're done.......LOL That's about the time I suggest he get some Forstner bits for his new drill.
Last night's lighting addition was putting the final touch on my "gallery" . Just had to light up those beatiful tips and be ready to receive the Sparkle Gems and Pine Cone in Snow coming Monday.......Little did I know......
I also didn't like it accidentally clicking on my teeth. I don't even notice that with an acrylic tip, but sure did with the metal. I tossed it. My little protank is now topped with a fun green tip. 
