8 bookshelf styling ideas to lift your home library and display your book collection in imaginative and original ways.
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Books in a home once signaled that the residents were intelligent, worldly, and could afford to collect their favorite volumes. Look back at some vintage bookshelves from the past!
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Books in a home once signaled that the residents were intelligent, worldly, and could afford to collect their favorite volumes. Look back at some vintage bookshelves from the past!
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For anyone who loves to read, a home library is the ideal spot to start the day or relax in the evening. Whether it's an entire room lined with books or a cozy reading nook, this space should serve as a quiet place where you can unwind. These home library ideas will help you carve out space for your own reading retreat.
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Custom library built-in bookshelves designed by Sawdust Girl Designs and built by homeowners Fawn and Jerry.
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Bookshelves pull double duty as storage for novels and display space for accessories. Learn how to decorate bookshelves so they are both functional and pleasing to the eye. These bookshelf decor ideas will help you turn an empty set of shelves into a carefully curated arrangement.
This has been one of the most involved projects we've worked on so far but it has been totally worth it. After figuring out the look we were after, my husband drew out a plan of how to make it. Essentially, the library consists of 5 cabinet bases, 5 bookshelf tops, and some trim to finish it off. Since this is a built in library, we will talk about how we made it starting with explaining how to build one bookshelf. If you have a larger or smaller wall you would need to adjust accordingly. Here are the basic steps we went through. Tools we used: Table saw Skill saw Router Sander Craig Jig Air compressor Nail guns Screw gun Drill Wood clamps Supplies we used: 2"x6" pine for the foundation 3/4” Birch cabinet-grade plywood for cabinets and bookshelves 3/16” laminated plywood for cabinet backing 1/4" barn siding plywood for bookshelf backing 3/4” poplar trim (various widths) for styles and rails Wood glue Screws For the cabinet bases and bookshelves, we used ¾” birch plywood (cabinet grade). For the trim and doors, we used poplar, which holds paint well and is an easy wood to work with. For the bookshelf backing, we used “barn board” plywood. For the cabinet backing, we used 3/16” laminated plywood. We got everything from Home Depot. To start, we removed the baseboard trim and crown molding in way of the built-ins. Be careful when removing the trim because you’ll end up re-installing it when the built-ins are complete. The cabinet bases are made of 4 main pieces: the two sides, the bottom, and a shelf. We used a router with a ¾” bit to carve out slots for the bottom and the shelf. Our workshop is in our unfinished basement, which we plan to finish someday soon. Here is a picture of the main pieces prior to assembly. We then assembled the pieces using glue and screws and then added a spreader (the top horizontal piece) and finished it off by nailing a 3/16” plywood backing to the cabinet. We did this 5 times. Meanwhile, back upstairs we made a foundation out of 2"x6" pine lumber for the cabinet bases to sit on. We made the foundation height such that the top of the installed baseboard trim would come about 1” below cabinet bottoms. Then we set the cabinet bases on the foundation and re-installed the baseboard. We then added poplar styles and rails to the cabinet bases. The cabinet top is made of the same birch plywood with a ½” baton of poplar to hide the end grain. The hole in the wall is where the wiring comes out. There was a switched outlet on the bottom left of the wall which we planned to use for power for the sconces. The next step was to make the book shelves. We used the same router bit to cut slots for each shelf. We made the shelf spacing 12”. We chose 12" based on the largest books we had and what we wanted to put on the shelves. Then we assembled the pieces using glue and screws. And repeat! If you are going to do something similar, I recommend painting the bookshelves BEFORE installing the backing. It will save you a TON of time. The backs were made of barn siding plywood and is relatively inexpensive, but rough. However, once you sand it down, it looks amazing. On another side note, while we were sanding, we had a crazy visitor. I have no idea what this bug is called but it freaked me out. It was HUGE! After the backs were sanded, we primed, painted, then nailed them to the back of the completed cabinets.Then we brought the bookshelves upstairs and put them on top of the cabinet bases. The spaces between the book shelves are for the wiring. The next step was to start adding the trim. We started with the top rail. We made the top rail fairly wide because it would also serve as the backing for the raised crown molding. Then we added the stiles (vertical boards) which covers the bookshelf joints and holds the sconces. The lighting we got at Overstock. At first we were looking at swing arm lamps that were gorgeous, but out of our budget; especially since we would need five. Then we decided on sconces since we would then only need four. Nothing (not even this project) would stand in the way of making our kids practice piano. That is why the piano never left this space. We had to move it around quite a few times but it all worked out. Then we added the rails for each shelf out of 1 ½” strips of poplar and attached them using glue and nails. We then put the rest of the crown molding back up. All that is left now are the cabinet doors. These were the hardest part. My husband would write a whole post just about these doors but to make a long story short, here is how we did them. Each door is made of two stiles (the vertical pieces), two rails (horizontal pieces), and a center panel. The slot in the middle of each stile and rail was made with a table saw. The rails also have “tongues” (also made on a table saw) which fit in the slot of the stiles. Here is the resulting frame prior to gluing it up. We then glued the door pieces together and sanded. We primed and painted each door in the basement before installing them. We went with Blum Euro-style hinges from Amazon which require blind holes in one stile. We also covered the entire built-in with a protective polyurethane coat. We added the doors to the cabinets and added our kitchen knobs (we decided to put some pulls in our kitchen, so this was an easy way to re-use knobs we already had). You can see our library reveal post here. And then we took a nap. ***Updated March 3, 2014*** Here's how she looks now all decked out- You can see my post on how I styled this beauty in this post and the transformation with the sconces using Rub N' Buff here. I'm entering this project in Creating with Stars Contest! Come check it out and other amazing D.I.Y projects.
Happy organizing!
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We’re moving forward with the library plans! We’ve put a deposit down, materials are being ordered, and hopefully the installation will begin in a few weeks. There will be cabinets with doors flanking either side of the window, and a window seat between with a piano hinge and dummy doors to match the others. Above each cabinet will be shelves to the ceiling, and everything will be stained to match the home’s existing oak trim. Here is our contractor’s drawing. This will be an investment in the house. Oak is not cheap, and skilled labor, even less so, and the project will come in at over $7000. (I’m including the cost here because it may be helpful information for those interested in doing something similar.) Rather than attempt to DIY this very big job in this very old house, we are having the shelves custom made by a carpenter who is familiar with the old houses of Oak Park. More importantly, he is familiar with our particular home! He is the person whom the previous owners worked with to replace the clapboard on the exterior, restore the front entryway, shore up and rebuild the front porch, and more. (This house […]
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8 bookshelf styling ideas to lift your home library and display your book collection in imaginative and original ways.
This has been one of the most involved projects we've worked on so far but it has been totally worth it. After figuring out the look we were after, my husband drew out a plan of how to make it. Essentially, the library consists of 5 cabinet bases, 5 bookshelf tops, and some trim to finish it off. Since this is a built in library, we will talk about how we made it starting with explaining how to build one bookshelf. If you have a larger or smaller wall you would need to adjust accordingly. Here are the basic steps we went through. Tools we used: Table saw Skill saw Router Sander Craig Jig Air compressor Nail guns Screw gun Drill Wood clamps Supplies we used: 2"x6" pine for the foundation 3/4” Birch cabinet-grade plywood for cabinets and bookshelves 3/16” laminated plywood for cabinet backing 1/4" barn siding plywood for bookshelf backing 3/4” poplar trim (various widths) for styles and rails Wood glue Screws For the cabinet bases and bookshelves, we used ¾” birch plywood (cabinet grade). For the trim and doors, we used poplar, which holds paint well and is an easy wood to work with. For the bookshelf backing, we used “barn board” plywood. For the cabinet backing, we used 3/16” laminated plywood. We got everything from Home Depot. To start, we removed the baseboard trim and crown molding in way of the built-ins. Be careful when removing the trim because you’ll end up re-installing it when the built-ins are complete. The cabinet bases are made of 4 main pieces: the two sides, the bottom, and a shelf. We used a router with a ¾” bit to carve out slots for the bottom and the shelf. Our workshop is in our unfinished basement, which we plan to finish someday soon. Here is a picture of the main pieces prior to assembly. We then assembled the pieces using glue and screws and then added a spreader (the top horizontal piece) and finished it off by nailing a 3/16” plywood backing to the cabinet. We did this 5 times. Meanwhile, back upstairs we made a foundation out of 2"x6" pine lumber for the cabinet bases to sit on. We made the foundation height such that the top of the installed baseboard trim would come about 1” below cabinet bottoms. Then we set the cabinet bases on the foundation and re-installed the baseboard. We then added poplar styles and rails to the cabinet bases. The cabinet top is made of the same birch plywood with a ½” baton of poplar to hide the end grain. The hole in the wall is where the wiring comes out. There was a switched outlet on the bottom left of the wall which we planned to use for power for the sconces. The next step was to make the book shelves. We used the same router bit to cut slots for each shelf. We made the shelf spacing 12”. We chose 12" based on the largest books we had and what we wanted to put on the shelves. Then we assembled the pieces using glue and screws. And repeat! If you are going to do something similar, I recommend painting the bookshelves BEFORE installing the backing. It will save you a TON of time. The backs were made of barn siding plywood and is relatively inexpensive, but rough. However, once you sand it down, it looks amazing. On another side note, while we were sanding, we had a crazy visitor. I have no idea what this bug is called but it freaked me out. It was HUGE! After the backs were sanded, we primed, painted, then nailed them to the back of the completed cabinets.Then we brought the bookshelves upstairs and put them on top of the cabinet bases. The spaces between the book shelves are for the wiring. The next step was to start adding the trim. We started with the top rail. We made the top rail fairly wide because it would also serve as the backing for the raised crown molding. Then we added the stiles (vertical boards) which covers the bookshelf joints and holds the sconces. The lighting we got at Overstock. At first we were looking at swing arm lamps that were gorgeous, but out of our budget; especially since we would need five. Then we decided on sconces since we would then only need four. Nothing (not even this project) would stand in the way of making our kids practice piano. That is why the piano never left this space. We had to move it around quite a few times but it all worked out. Then we added the rails for each shelf out of 1 ½” strips of poplar and attached them using glue and nails. We then put the rest of the crown molding back up. All that is left now are the cabinet doors. These were the hardest part. My husband would write a whole post just about these doors but to make a long story short, here is how we did them. Each door is made of two stiles (the vertical pieces), two rails (horizontal pieces), and a center panel. The slot in the middle of each stile and rail was made with a table saw. The rails also have “tongues” (also made on a table saw) which fit in the slot of the stiles. Here is the resulting frame prior to gluing it up. We then glued the door pieces together and sanded. We primed and painted each door in the basement before installing them. We went with Blum Euro-style hinges from Amazon which require blind holes in one stile. We also covered the entire built-in with a protective polyurethane coat. We added the doors to the cabinets and added our kitchen knobs (we decided to put some pulls in our kitchen, so this was an easy way to re-use knobs we already had). You can see our library reveal post here. And then we took a nap. ***Updated March 3, 2014*** Here's how she looks now all decked out- You can see my post on how I styled this beauty in this post and the transformation with the sconces using Rub N' Buff here. I'm entering this project in Creating with Stars Contest! Come check it out and other amazing D.I.Y projects.
Posted on www.aphrochic.blogspot.com April 11, 2013.
Take my money. All of it.
Andrew Dickson White Library, in Uris Library.
Individual books, and shelves filled with them.
In the eighteenth century, European nobility sought to expand their knowledge by studying literature, maps and touring countries around the world. Those travels led to accumulating books. Since books were more available, cabinetmakers started creating library furniture and built in bookcases to display the books in private homes, and in high ceiling rooms, ladders were a must. Ladders come in different woods and finishes. By using them in interiors, it allows the use of every inch of the space. At the same time, it brings character, luxury, and maximizes storage where ever they are used: Among books in the library In the butler's pantry In the guest room In the bedroom In the office Photo 1 courtesy of House Beautiful, photography by William P. Steele Photo 2 designer Charlotte Moss, photography Pieter Estersohn Photo 3 designer Bunny Williams, photography by Fritz Von Der Shulenberg Photo 4 courtesy of House Beautiful , photography by William Waldron Photo 5 courtesy of House Beautiful , designer Milly De Cabrol, photography by Thomas Loop Photo 6 unknown
Custom library built-in bookshelves designed by Sawdust Girl Designs and built by homeowners Fawn and Jerry.
Western Australia couple Laura and Stuart moved into their dream home with their two kids but felt the space needed a bit of a makeover. Starting with the front room, they added a built-in library made from Ikea bookshelves in the Hampton's coastal style.
Posted on www.aphrochic.blogspot.com April 11, 2013.
The most beautiful bookshelves you ever did see!
You can only stack so many on your nightstand.
