This shelf started as a cream shelf with some hunter green colored ivy stenciled all over it. I painted it white, a couple coats were needed to cover that oh so 90's ivy. I then added my "signature" scrap wood to the back. I went with more pastel colors to please my son who says I use the same colors all of the time. When I showed him I had used different colors his response was, "Those colors are different how?" A shelf this size is perfect in so many places, where would you use it?