Mister also included a piece of lumber that filled the space in between each of the bookcases.
Once we had the bookshelf on the base and space the way they needed to be, we (I am using the royal we here) added a header board and crown molding to the top of the shelves to finish the look. Luckily Mister is the best and he soildered on with a smile on his face. If you have any level of familiarity with IKEA flat pack furniture, then you know that assembly can sometimes be quite the pain. I am quite certain that Mister wanted to kill me when we started reading through the assembly instructions for the Billy….at least it made for some good Insta-stories. Before I go any further, we need to discuss Billy bookcase assembly. Once the box was built, we were able to sit the assembled Billy bookcases directly on top of the base. I knew that I wanted the bookshelf to be as high as the door trim, so we knew that we were going to have to build a base to create the height that we needed. We had a door on one end of the bookshelf wall and a window on the end of the wall, so we could not build them truly wall-to-wall, so we created a look that looks like a large custom built-in along that wall. He then headed home to his workshop and drew out the plans that would bring my bookcase to life. I drew a sketch of what I was looking for on a piece of paper and discussed my vision and how I wanted the final project to look with Mister during one of his visits to stay with us. Did you know you could do that? We don’t have an IKEA in Nashville, but I was able to order them from the website and then they arranged home delivery for me. So I headed to the IKEA website and ordered 4 of these Billy Bookcases in white and had them shipped to my home. I had seen lots of posts on people who had used the Billy bookcases from IKEA to serve as the base of their built-in project and I always thought that was a good idea. The hubs said I could build my dream bookshelf as long as it didn’t cost more than what I sold the piece of furniture for, so I was on a mission to do this as easily and economically as I possibly could. In an effort to keep costs down and the work that my sweet Mister had to do to a minimum, I decided to try my hand at my first IKEA hack. So long story short, after months of thinking about it I finally pulled the trigger, sold the buffet and got to work on designing and planning my bookshelf. I always found myself being really drawn to images of clean-lined, large scale bookshelves on Pinterest and in magazines. I should have just stuck to what I know and love and been true to my design aesthetic rather than trying to be something I wasn’t. Here is the problem, while the piece was absolutely beautiful, it never was truly my style. I bought the piece when we were first moving to the South from Minnesota thinking that I wanted something ornate and antique to go along with my new southern digs. If you recall, there used to be a very large white antique buffet along the wall where the bookshelf now stands.
Would you believe me if I said this entire piece cost me around $600 in materials to build? You will have to read on to find out!įirst a little history of this project. I am going to share all of my thought and design process with you guys as well as a breakdown of what everything cost at the end.
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I am not really a DIY blogger, so if you are looking for a step-by-step on how these were built this probably isn’t the post for you however, if you are looking for some inspiration for how to make a beautiful statement piece for less then you are totally in luck. I am so excited to be able to share with you more information on my built-in bookcase project that my sweet father-in-law, AKA Mister, built for me last month.
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