New children’s bookshelves
We love books in this house. The children have hundreds. We have more books than places to put them and a regular visit every week to the library adds to the pile, in a good way of course!
Diva G has a Dolls House bookcase which for her birthday this weekend has been accessorised to become a dolls house leaving many more books homeless.
So last weekend inspired by Pinterest boards across the globe I paid a visit to Ikea. I needed only one thing, Ribba Picture Ledge, and I needed lots of it! My plan was to create a reading corner in the Diva’s bedroom and a bookshelf around the playroom storing the books and adding decoration to both rooms by putting the gorgeous colourful book covers on view.
We, well Mr L is the best handyman in Wilmslow, mitred the corners of the ledges, the end result is better for it in my opinion. This approach wasn’t the easiest, the walls of our house aren’t straight and the corners aren’t a square 90 degrees, worse than that the angle changes slightly for each and every shelf. Measure twice and cut once for each and every shelf is the lesson learnt! I am really chuffed with how our shelving project has turned out and Diva G and Lil H have rediscovered some of their books being able to see so many more covers and not just book spines. So here you are, I’d love to know what you think.
I’m delighted with how they look, feel free to Pin, Stumble & Share etc. if you like what we’ve done here. Claire x
Category: Home Building, Personal & Family | Tags: book case, book shelves, Children's book storage, ikea ribba, kids book storage, making a reading corner, ribba shelving, tidy books 3 comments »
October 15th, 2012 at 7:15 pm
Oooo I like those
October 15th, 2012 at 7:32 pm
Love these! Danger D’s are how I remember books being stored at school & nursery, such a lovely layout! Lil H’s are very cool for a boy! And such a great way to display all the fab covers!
May well be stealing some ideas…!
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October 15th, 2012 at 7:38 pm
I heart these. We have the same Ribba picture ledge in the garage and I need to get the fella to put them up. You may have inspired me