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?
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?
honeydew / 7444 posts
We bought 3 billy bookcases for our basement and they store all of our books!
hostess / wonderful watermelon / 39513 posts
@Freckles: ooh are your Billys pushed together?
bananas / 9628 posts
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.
pomelo / 5607 posts
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!
hostess / wonderful apple seed / 16729 posts
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.
hostess / wonderful apple seed / 16729 posts
@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.
pomegranate / 3577 posts
@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.
pineapple / 12566 posts
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).
pomelo / 5607 posts
@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!
wonderful pomelo / 30692 posts
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!
pomelo / 5678 posts
I built one with my dad last year and it was 6 feet by 6 feet, it still wasn't big enough!
GOLD / wonderful coffee bean / 18478 posts
Yes, we have tons of bookcases and built-ins because we've always loved buying books.
nectarine / 2210 posts
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.
wonderful kiwi / 23653 posts
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.
blogger / wonderful cherry / 21616 posts
@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
pomegranate / 3577 posts
@snowjewelz: I like the grey and the wood floors! (And someone has a ridic drum kit or something going on there!)
pear / 1696 posts
@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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