https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 09 May 2026 12:52:10 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/displayingstoring-books-in-the-nursery#post-1368060 Wed, 22 Jan 2014 17:23:10 +0000 Mrs. Twine 1368060@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>There's ours. The forward facing display is removable, and very sturdy. It was designed by Mr. T (who is also an engineer), and Lorelei has never pulled it out. We really love it! </p> [attach=3361/14/mztq6o.600x450.2014-01-22-16.17.46.jpg] [attach=3361/14/mztq6q.600x450.2014-01-22-16.18.33.jpg] [attach=3361/14/mztq6s.600x450.2014-01-22-16.18.48.jpg] https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/displayingstoring-books-in-the-nursery#post-1367997 Wed, 22 Jan 2014 16:57:05 +0000 spaniellove 1367997@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@brownie: We got the spice racks and are thinking about painting them a bright color. But I have to warn you, they're not very wide! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/displayingstoring-books-in-the-nursery#post-1367981 Wed, 22 Jan 2014 16:49:12 +0000 Mommy Finger 1367981@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Originally, I was thinking of doing a few ring slings like the ones in this link for the nursery:</p> <p><a href="http://pennycarnival.typepad.com/penny_carnival/2009/02/tutorial-hanging-book-display.html" rel="nofollow">http://pennycarnival.typepad.com/penny_carnival/2009/02/tutorial-hanging-book-display.html</a></p> <p>However, now that I've see more and more of the book ledges like above, I was going to switch to that. Silly me hadn't even thought about toddlers wanting to climb them. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/displayingstoring-books-in-the-nursery#post-1366650 Wed, 22 Jan 2014 12:00:03 +0000 Sapphiresun 1366650@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ladybee: Thanks! That's not their intended home, but I love them too. I ordered them online thinking they'd go in a set of three over the crib because I thought "great, non glass!", but silly me didn't realize how heavy solid pine actually is either. But they definitely need to get anchored somewhere solid before LO starts getting mobile. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/displayingstoring-books-in-the-nursery#post-1366632 Wed, 22 Jan 2014 11:53:33 +0000 MrsH 1366632@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have them - we just bought the cheapie shelves from Ikea. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/displayingstoring-books-in-the-nursery#post-1366616 Wed, 22 Jan 2014 11:48:42 +0000 cheert16 1366616@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I just have a regular bookshelf low to the floor- he pulls the books out and plays with them (eats them) It does get messy fast though! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/displayingstoring-books-in-the-nursery#post-1366611 Wed, 22 Jan 2014 11:47:34 +0000 edelweiss 1366611@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>oh wow, you guys have some really nice bookshelves/ledges!</p> <p>we had ours on a regular bookshelf, and then LO discovered that he loved pushing them all off the shelf. i have given up so there is just a mess of books on the floor a few inches away from his bookshelf. maybe when he is older we will look into a nicer display again.</p> <p>so in our house, the answer is yes it got messy very quickly! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/displayingstoring-books-in-the-nursery#post-1366590 Wed, 22 Jan 2014 11:44:13 +0000 Anagram 1366590@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@PinkElephant: Good point.</p> <p>We were worried about that very thing, because in a kid's eyes these ledges are perfect climbing toys, right? I actually think if these are low enough (and go high enough) they can be really dangerous to a toddler who likes to climb.</p> <p>Our solution was to only do three long but low shelves--all reachable for a toddler. Then we used heavy duty anchor bolts (also called a molly) that hold up to 25 lbs and screwed them directly into our steel beems (we're in a steel beem building and my husband has a drill bit for steel).</p> <p>I'm not sure if most people take those precautions, but I'm paranoid. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/displayingstoring-books-in-the-nursery#post-1365977 Wed, 22 Jan 2014 08:04:36 +0000 Ra 1365977@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@char54: I :heart: Ana White! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/displayingstoring-books-in-the-nursery#post-1365928 Wed, 22 Jan 2014 07:01:38 +0000 Mrs. Tiger 1365928@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>These are awesome, I've been thinking about doing this as well! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/displayingstoring-books-in-the-nursery#post-1365927 Wed, 22 Jan 2014 06:59:02 +0000 Charm54 1365927@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have them...we used this tutorial (<a href="http://ana-white.com/2010/10/plans/ten-dollar-ledges" rel="nofollow">http://ana-white.com/2010/10/plans/ten-dollar-ledges</a>) and they turned out really nice! I love that it's the first thing you see in her room when looking down the hallway. </p> [attach=2503/14/mzsxag.450x600.image.jpg] [attach=2503/14/mzsxai.450x600.image.jpg] https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/displayingstoring-books-in-the-nursery#post-1365920 Wed, 22 Jan 2014 06:10:46 +0000 delight 1365920@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@kpc324: here are a couple pictures I saved before we did our nursery if you want other ideas. I'm not sure if I saw these here or Pinterest. The bottom one was made out of building materials, rain gutters I think!</p> <p>ETA If you see these and these are your nursery, love it!</p> <p>[attach=3209/14/mzsv1z.400x600.image.jpg]</p> <p>[attach=3209/14/mzsv21.448x600.image.jpg] </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/displayingstoring-books-in-the-nursery#post-1365906 Wed, 22 Jan 2014 05:11:46 +0000 ladybee 1365906@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Sapphiresun: I have been drooling over those pbkids floral prints for years. Then we got pregnant with our LO who is a boy so I had to let them go but they look amazing in your lo's room! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/displayingstoring-books-in-the-nursery#post-1365898 Wed, 22 Jan 2014 04:32:25 +0000 PinkElephant 1365898@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Have any of you had trouble with your toddler pulling on these shelves? My (tiny!) 18 month old ripped an IKEA "LACK" shelf off the wall and now my husband refuses to hang spice rack bookshelves. I think if she could reach them she wouldn't pull on them, but who knows.... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/displayingstoring-books-in-the-nursery#post-1365890 Wed, 22 Jan 2014 03:01:26 +0000 Sapphiresun 1365890@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p> [attach=1521/14/mzsmag.448x600.IMG_0789.jpg] https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/displayingstoring-books-in-the-nursery#post-1365889 Wed, 22 Jan 2014 03:00:24 +0000 Sapphiresun 1365889@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I used the Ribba ledge. It has a mix of books and decor items. The bulk of her books are stored on our bookshelf in the living room though. My thought it just to put the pretty ones, and then her board books on the lowest shelf so she can reach them herself eventually. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/displayingstoring-books-in-the-nursery#post-1365858 Wed, 22 Jan 2014 01:13:31 +0000 lemondrop 1365858@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have one Ikea ledge for favorite books that I switch out occasionally and a bookcase for the rest. We also keep a basket in the living room and rotate some books there too since we spend most of our time there. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/displayingstoring-books-in-the-nursery#post-1365823 Wed, 22 Jan 2014 00:02:00 +0000 Mrs Green Grass 1365823@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have three just like the picture. LO is still little so I have the paper books on the shelves and the board books primarily on a low shelf near our chair. When he's reading all of tr books I imagine I'll just rotate every month or so. It looks really nice and I love it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/displayingstoring-books-in-the-nursery#post-1365806 Tue, 21 Jan 2014 23:45:37 +0000 Mrs. Twine 1365806@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'll have to take pictures in the morning, but we had a friend make us a bookshelf with some front-facing storage. It has worked wonderfully. And it is an insert that can come out when she gets older and needs more places for books and doesn't need the visual selection quite as much anymore. We typically put current favorites and newer library books front facing, but change out the "display" regularly based on her interests. Sometimes it's slightly themed. I've never liked the ones that mount to the wall, personally; although you can use gutter sections from the hardware store to make some inexpensive but still very attractive ones if you like that style of display/storage. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/displayingstoring-books-in-the-nursery#post-1365798 Tue, 21 Jan 2014 23:25:57 +0000 delight 1365798@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We use the ones from IKEA too. She certainly has more books than will fit on them, but I just rotate books once in awhile. Right now there are 14 books on display and we have three shelves. I love the look of them and I think they're practical for our nursery because they're right beside the couch where we read. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/displayingstoring-books-in-the-nursery#post-1365780 Tue, 21 Jan 2014 23:05:21 +0000 fancyfunction 1365780@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have a few - I use them to change up the book displays. The rest are stored in the bookshelf. </p> [attach=3567/14/mzsbcy.448x600.Photo1-6-.jpg] https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/displayingstoring-books-in-the-nursery#post-1365726 Tue, 21 Jan 2014 22:32:56 +0000 matador84 1365726@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We love ours!!! IKEA RIBba. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/displayingstoring-books-in-the-nursery#post-1365724 Tue, 21 Jan 2014 22:32:10 +0000 MrsRoo 1365724@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have those ledges in LOs nursery, and really like them. She has way too many books to fit on them nicely, so I store the overflow on the top shelf of her closet and keep the books that we read on a regular basis on the ledges (which are low so she can reach them). As she grows out of the board books that are in the shelf now, Ill pull down the older books out of the closet and replace them on the ledges. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/displayingstoring-books-in-the-nursery#post-1365718 Tue, 21 Jan 2014 22:29:56 +0000 MrsF 1365718@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have the ledges (ikea, I think?) and I love them. Ours are really big and we filled them with books that my mom kept from my childhood and have added to them with new books. They take up a whole wall and look great, which is perfect because I'm not great with decorating. M loves to be picked up so that she can choose her bedtime book since all the covers are visible - or she can get her own books from the bottom shelves. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/displayingstoring-books-in-the-nursery#post-1365715 Tue, 21 Jan 2014 22:27:29 +0000 brownie 1365715@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was going to get the ikea spice racks to do that. But we haven't made it to ikea yet. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/displayingstoring-books-in-the-nursery#post-1365705 Tue, 21 Jan 2014 22:21:51 +0000 Anagram 1365705@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@kpc324: we have the picture ledges for books and they are really more for decor than storage. They will hold far less than an actual bookshelf, and ours is overflowing now and of course as she gets older, we'll need an actual book shelf.</p> <p>But I think it's cute in terms of decor! and Cheap, too. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/displayingstoring-books-in-the-nursery#post-1365693 Tue, 21 Jan 2014 22:15:54 +0000 kpc324 1365693@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Has anyone tried those ledge shelves for storing/displaying picture books in the nursery? I see this all over Pinterest, but I'm not sure how well it would work out in real life...would it get messy looking quickly?</p> <p>I'd like to find a nice way to store books so Little Miss can access them easily. We'll probably my go with a low bookshelf, but those ledges look so nice! </p> [attach=4302/14/mzs92j.537x594.image.jpg]