Rachel’s Team Pick:
I take an embarrassing amount of pride in my domicile and domestic skills for a broke 23-year-old who, real talk, actually left the headboard of her bed behind in her last apartment by accident. But I’m really proud of the kitchen-island-on-wheels I got as a gift and the little loveseat I bought off Craigslist from a laid-off dad. I don’t have anything approaching a good or cute or Martha Stewart-esque system for my books, though. Largely they’re in piles on my counter, my table, my floors, and sometimes my bed. I still have pretty much every book I’ve ever bought because getting rid of them makes me feel physical pain, so it’s a pretty real problem. Which is why it’s so neat that there’s 25 DIY bookshelf ideas on the Internet! Some of them are a little beyond my capabilities (there are a surprising number involving ladders and also one involving industrial piping?) but if I could find an IKEA, my apartment would have these wallpapered shelves ASAP.
Oh My God Rachel. I have so many books too books I haven’t read books on my bed and books that stay inside my head.
I have been putting off buying a bookcase for my books for…months…
This is perfect as I have all the books and no place to put them. :)
I have to say, most of them look suitable for storing six or seven books at most. I need shelving that can handle quantity.
Right! I adore the hollowed out TV one! But where to put the rest of my books although right now they’re chilling in a massive suitcase and or boxed up so there’s no where to go but up
You should try this then. They stack up like legos!
http://faircompanies.com/videos/view/tetris-like-stacking-legoish-shelves-modular-minimalism/
well sheesh it was already hard enough to put some of my books in the ‘sell’ pile for moving but now all i want to do is make bookshelves and store them, DAMMIT.
why do books become like children once you have them. i can’t get rid of them, toooo heartbreaking.
Books are generally much more well behaved than actual children. Also they eat less! However, they take up nearly as much time and are only slightly easier to ignore while you’re trying to sleep or clean.
Seriously going to try some of these in my new apartment.
I have too many books to fit on anything. They’re everywhere. I feel that one day someone might just find me drowning in a sea of books trying to desperately escape.
My brother did buy me a bookshelf once that looked a bit like a vagina though, but then I thought the books were too sharp to be put into it.
Can’t say I would have ever thought to use Campbell’s soup cans as a bookend.
I’ve already sent this around to my roommates. These are totally going to happen when we move next month.
I’ve gotten to the point where my books are shelved alphabetically by genre, and all catalogued on my computer for easy lending My girlfriend has tried to help me cull the herd a few times, but I invariably end up with about a half-dozen “I guess I could let these go” and shelves and shelves of “WHY DO YOU WANT ME TO GET RID OF THIS YOU MAY AS WELL CUT OFF MY ARM”.
Basically what I’m saying is that I need to be independently wealthy so that I can have a personal library with floor-to-ceiling shelves and one of those ladder-on-wheels things. Oh for the day my ladder has wheels…
She has the best bookshelves, no lie.
agghhh love this thank you! i’m moving out of the country and won’t be able to afford furniture. i like the idea of making a home within my home just for my books. i also experience physical pain if one of them goes.
The serious problem with open bookshelves: DUST (even if you dust)
Thank you, I needed this. I have so many books that I had to stack them on the stairs. This allows for easy tripping, but at least, when the EMTs come to dig me out of the pile, they will have something interesting to read.
I have a sudden desire to make a coffee table (or a dinner table) with bookshelves for the table legs
I, too have hundreds on hundreds of books.
But the closest I got to DIY-ing it was collaging my entire bookshelf and where I am now in the ongoing project, I have to get another book shelf!
Cute! A lot of them would remind me too much of work though… I don’t need ladders and pipes as decorations in my house, too. :P
I’m planning to make this one, though http://www.instructables.com/id/Inverted-Bookshelf/ and maybe also the floating books one.
These are all amazing and I want them.