We have a lot of books and we need more shelves! We are considering some built ins for our front room or some IKEA Billy bookcases.
How is your book storage situation?
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We bought 3 billy bookcases for our basement and they store all of our books!
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@Freckles: ooh are your Billys pushed together?
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no, i wish i did though. i got rid of a lot of books, but i still have some in boxes. i have two tall bookshelves in my spare room/office, then two half height ones and one of those cube cubby things & a few of the cubes have books.
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I finally have enough shelf space for all of my books for the first time, because DH built me risers for the paperbacks. There was so much wasted space that I can use now!
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Yup, most are ikea book shelves but we needed some sturdier ones and found some solid wood ones in CL. They were cheaper, stronger and held more than the ikea ones. It was a warehouse selling their bookshelves for $50.
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@Torchwood: oh, I like those risers!! Some of our book shelves are deep and risers would definitely help. It's definitely more efficient use of space.
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@autumnlove: I think Little Green Notebook had a nice tutorial about making the Billy bookcases look like built-ins!
We have zero bookcases, but hopefully DH will build us some this summer.
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We have a large bookcase in the living room (from a local furniture store) filled with books. In my office area there is another smaller bookcase (CB2) that has books and papers and then DS has a little cube in his room that serves as a bookshelf/nightstand (local furniture store).
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@bluestriped bee: I was SO happy when he made them. I've never been able to fit all my books on shelves before, and so many are paperbacks that with these I actually have extra space now!
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@autumnlove: yep! I will take a picture and wall you!
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We are running out of space for books. I get a ton of books for Christmas every year and we already have 6 large bookcases! I think one of the bookcases is going to get the books doubled up because I don't have any more space for more bookcases!
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I built one with my dad last year and it was 6 feet by 6 feet, it still wasn't big enough!
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Yes, we have tons of bookcases and built-ins because we've always loved buying books.
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Not at all!! We use our third bedroom as a library, but all the shelves are full and there are stacks and stacks of books around the room.
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All our bookshelves are from Target! DH has tons and tons of book so we have shelves in our office area as well as basement.
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@Espion: cool! @Freckles: thanks!!!
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@snowjewelz: oh that's pretty!!
I wish - but there's nowhere to put any!! I keep having to get rid of books because they just sit in boxes taking up space
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@snowjewelz: I like the grey and the wood floors! (And someone has a ridic drum kit or something going on there!)
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@Espion: haha my dh is way into drumming and drum making!
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@autumnlove: We did diy wall mounted shelves at our last home. We filled a whole wall with them. You can get all the stuff at home depot/lowes:
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