Creative people, please read! I need some help. :)

[Randi]

Johanna, that is an excellent plan, I'm sure they'll be thrilled and have a lot of fun. Unfortunately, I don't have any ideas of how to do it, but check some websítes.

Can't wait to see the result!

[Karen]

If you wanted a forest theme, you could do two, or three trees, depending on the shape of the wall - A half trunk on either edge and one in the middle, with intertwining branches coming off it.

You could do a "cityscape" theme, with some buildings ending at one shelf and others continuing up behind it, and the bottom shelf being the "top" of a fence - we know cats adore walking on fence tops.

You could go whimsical, with a sea-theme, and painted "kelp" supporting the shelves, and fishes behind

or abstract and just Mondrian-like blocks of color behind the shelves, and intersecting them ...

or Asian - bamboo forest with a tiger lurking between the canes

or literary - paint a bookcase with some books with cat-themed titles on the spots where the shelves don't reach ...

Need more?

[Cataholic]

Pom- I LOVE that show. I haven't seen him do decor, but I know he does recommend the vertical space thingy. He is partially the reason I am doing it, and I saw another couple do their whole house like that..cut out, the whole thing. I am not going to go to that extreme.

Karen- those are some GREAT ideas. I love, esp the bookcase, the fence (which Jonah and I talked about this am), the city scape....LOVE it...... I am as unmodern and as unwhimsical as they come- so nothing like that, but even the bamboo forest....LOVE it. I

The rest of the room is beige/tan walls, white shutters on the windows, a fir-place (non working)...maybe I should take some pics of the room and put it up here, just in case someone sees something that really speaks to them. Though, I prolly will choose one of the ones Karen suggested.

[sasvermont]

Hi!

If I were going to do the plank/board thing, I think I would pick a few colors I love and paint the wall with the colors in a pattern I would like to see for years. Then I would paint the boards to blend in the wall colors. I might try to contrast them, but knowing me, I would match the color of the wall to the board. So lets say you do three colors up and down or side to side, then paint the boards accordingly. Does this make sense? If the wall stays white and you like green, maybe paint all the boards green and some door trim the same green..... or maybe paint the boards white? I like the idea of colors added, but don't know what you like.

[ChrisH]

Johanna, don't know if this is of interest but you can buy wall murals in a kind of large wallpaper form. They have various scenes on this site.

http://www.muralsuperstore.com/index.htm

I like this one.
http://www.muralsuperstore.com/catal...rd_4274571.htm

[Cataholic]

SAS- I don't think I do know what you mean, but I am interested in understanding it!!

Chris- oooohhhhhhh.....now you have me going in a totally different direction!

[kittycats_delight]

http://www.muralsuperstore.com/catalog/porch_9.jpg
http://www.muralsuperstore.com/00282_small.jpg
http://www.muralsuperstore.com/catal...arge_small.jpg

I think these could work. Just have to paint the shelves to match the colors where they lay against the background.

http://www.muralsuperstore.com/catal..._kat_small.jpg

or this too could work the same way.

http://www.muralsuperstore.com/catalog/UMB91025L.jpg

or even this one.