{"id":10784,"date":"2016-05-18T13:29:55","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T17:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=10784"},"modified":"2016-09-27T20:17:15","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T00:17:15","slug":"diy-library-bookshelf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/18\/diy-library-bookshelf\/","title":{"rendered":"DIY Library Bookshelf"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m pretty handy around the house (a lot handier than hubby, in fact!) but I don’t share\u00a0a lot of DIY projects on the blog. \u00a0Mostly because I don’t have a lot of time to do a lot of DIY projects in my life! But this is one I did last summer that has saved my sanity: A DIY Library Bookshelf.<\/p>\n

When we moved into our new house, we lost our playroom<\/a>. \u00a0We created our little library space<\/a> for the girls to do school and I used one of our Ikea shelves<\/a> for all their books (I have a book problem…) But when the shelf constantly looked like this:<\/p>\n

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with books falling over, pushed so far back you couldn’t see them and haphazardly stacked all over the top, I realized our setup wasn’t working for our kids and we needed to find a new solution.<\/p>\n

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I dreamed about a cart like at the library (AL)<\/a>\"\"\u00a0where the shelves are slanted so books don’t fall over as easily and you don’t have to worry about how far back to push them. But the carts get a little pricey and most have wheels which I’m not a fan of for my kids’ use. So I decided to design and build my own.<\/p>\n

Not only did I get the exact library bookshelf that I wanted, it only cost me about half the price of buying one\u00a0plus a little time and sweat (mostly because I it was July and I was pregnant at the time so\u00a0everything made me sweat!)<\/p>\n

DIY Library Bookshelf<\/h2>\n

What you need:<\/em><\/p>\n

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