Need Help with old style built in shelves!! :o)

Dawn

It's a very busy shelf.  It looks like it's between your stairway and your LR, so I assume you don't want to block too much light from the LR.

It's too bad you can't paint it out.  It appears there may already be a lot of woodgrain in this area and my first choice would be to paint it white.  If you left it empty it would serve as an interesting element as is, I think.   Any collection would probably be a careful one unifying like items by limited colour (no more than 2 maybe?) and/or like items. 

I don't know what the LR looks like but maybe you could hang  a few pieces of art on it, maybe one rectangular one in a larger scale with two smaller ones next to it like the grouping over the bench in this first inspiration picture but use just paintings.  (I chose this picture to illustrate how the white-painted pieces look though, but you'd have that look from the painted shelf)

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You could also consider hanging framed mirrors as shown in one of the other pictures below, or even 3-4 tin barn stars in a colour of your choice.

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I'm not crazy about displaying CD'S-I'd leave the above one empty.

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The above one is a little busy for me but it illustrates how framed mirrors can look mounted on a shelf.  I like how the colours were carefully chosen in this last one.

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I  hope this helps.

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