Happy 2019! One of my hopes for the year is to get back in the routine of reading to the girls before bed. I think part of the reason was like most, we are constantly running out of space and places to store things so in an effort to keep the house organized I feel like everything has to have home. We don’t have a bookcase which then led the books to being stored in an organizational unit, and forgotten about.
I have been hunting for a book display or shelving for the girls for awhile. Unfortunately everything I have found has either been very expensive or to be honest, cheap looking. I knew I didn’t want to invest in a piece, the girls rooms will change, that’s a given, so I started looking for basic pieces I could fancy up, because let’s face it I’m a little extra. 🙂 That’s how I found this Ikea book display for $20 and with a little love and about $10 extra turned them into useable works of art, or at least that’s what I think!
Supplies
- Ikea Book Display
- Paint – I used left over acrylic paint from another project
- Paint brush – I had some from a previous project
- Contact Paper – I had bought some for a previous project that I never used, totally forgot about and finally remembered! #momlife
Step 1: Set up working area and take all pieces out of the box. Put blue base board in a safe place and begin painting all wood pieces. Do not assemble first, paint them as they are out of the box. Let dry and paint second coat if needed.
Step 2: Cover the blue piece in contact paper of your choosing. I had leftover pink glitter paper that worked great!
Step 3: Assemble the book display per the instructions.
Step 4: Complete any final paint touchups and you’re done!
What are your thoughts? I honestly love it and am glad I didn’t do shelving, this way if it needs to be moved from room to room, it’s super easy! I have one more to make, I bought one for each of the girls, what colors should I do this time?