Once I had that calculated, I just had to figure out the top part of the shelves.
That left me with 20 inches of open space to cover over with trim, so I knew we would need five 5″ boards on the ends and in between each shelf. I measured the space in between the walls, in our case it was almost exactly 12 feet, or 144 inches, then I subtracted out the width of the bookcases which are 31″ each, or a total of 124 inches.
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To figure out how to best use the space, the picture below shows how we did the math. How to Build Built-In Bookcases from IKEA Billy Bookshelves I had two shelves already from my former home office so I picked up two more tall Billy bookshelves from IKEA. What is nice about the space, which is open to our foyer, is that the walls already created the perfect “niche” to put shelves in. Sources are linked throughout and listed at the end of the post. This is the home’s formal living room just inside the front door, we use it more as a quiet reading/library space since formal entertaining isn’t high on our list these days.
This picture is from our move-in day before we had the room painted pale gray. He basically showed up one day with the lumber and did the entire project for me himself I sure am one lucky girl! At one point last year, I showed my Dad a picture of some shelves that were similar and asked if he could help me with the harder parts of construction. Since I didn’t actually do most of the hands-on work, I suppose it is easy for me to say how simple this is, but this project is certainly simple compared to building a wall of shelves from scratch.Ī quick recap if you missed the first post: I’d been dreaming about building these shelves since we moved in our new home.
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