Upcycled bookcase- a practice project

Since the room for the nursery is so large, we decided to "upcycle" some furniture that we already own to use for storage and to fill up the space a little. Since it didn't really go with the color of the nursery I am having to paint it. Now, I'm not very savvy with paint and not much of a heavy duty DIYer, so I thought I should probably practice first. Luckily, my mom and Geno are awesome DIYers so I rely on them heavily as a resource!

The tricky thing is the the pieces are laminate, with I wasn't sure if you could paint that out not, but thanks to the wonderful world of Pinterest, I found a tutorial. We had this bookshelf sitting in a closet not really being used, so I thought I'd use that to practice painting and then use it on our landing for toy and book storage.

Here is the before picture. There is also a self that goes in it.

I think everything went pretty well, except that when we went to put the shelf it, it was too tight of fit now so it scratched off a bunch of the paint.

So, I did a little touch up and Voila!

Also, in case you are wondering, I didn't paint the inside back of it, because it was that cardboardy material. I wasn't sure how it would hold up to that much paint, so I found some scrapbook paper to decoupage onto it. Here is the link to the Painted Laminate tutorial I used in case you are interested in trying it out.
So what do you think? Not too shabby for my first "big girl" painting project, huh? Now... onto the nursery furniture!