Earlier in the year we saw this idea on Ohdeedoh and we absolutely LOVED it. Only problem is we don’t have a lot of spare wall space in this house. Bummer.
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I said to my husband that one day, when we have a bigger house, I would love to do this for the kids. He said he’d just make one that we could stick anywhere, instead. Brilliant. I love my husband.
And so he built this with some plywood, Ikea Bekvam spice racks {just $6.95 each!} and right angle brackets.
And I couldn’t wait until it was painted to start using it. So we put all our Easter books on it the very next day.
And so over the Easter long weekend he painted it white. I love it in white.
I love that my kiddos have a mini portable library now. And I’m so thankful my hubby is handy enough to build this. Though he tells me it wasn’t that hard, I’m pretty sure there is no way I could do it :o}
The kitchen next to the library he built too. I’ll post about that when it is finished :o}
that’s great, I’ve been nagging my husband to do a similar thing, I think his been ignoring me because he doesn’t want to mark the walls. I like your husbands idea. thanks!
Oh love it! Will be copying that idea. As soon as my husband has finished the other 5 projects I have him on. LOL
Love this Bianca! We rent our house so we cannot fix anything to the wall so this is perfect ~ sadly hubby is not handy in the building department so it might be a job for my Dad! Thank you for sharing
So love this – you are so creative!! I love reading with my cherubs and this is a great way to highlight certain books and to keep them neat and tidy. Hearting this seriously xx
Thanks for all the wonderful comments ladies. My hubby is pretty chuffed with himself. It’s a big hit in our house! LOVED the original idea and so glad we were able to do it to suit us.
Wow! What a great alternative!! It looks awesome! I would love to have something like this at home 🙂
You’ve got a very handy hubby. Mine wouldn’t be up to this. Looks lovely, Bianca.
What a great idea I love it.
I might have to steal it 😉
Looks wonderful, also a fantastic idea.. Ill add it to hubbies ‘to do list’ im sure he will be mega impressed 🙂 LOL. After the sandpit, cubby and numerous things he has to put together in the babies nursery hehehehe..
Owww nice, I have the spice racks waiting to be put up in our house , but I want to paint them first!! Such a great idea and they are soooo cheap!
That’s a fantastic idea! I’m always struggling to get the girls to keep their books nice in a bookshelf and I’m pretty sure they don’t even know what books they have in there. I love it! I’m posting this on hubby’s wall as a diy job for the weekend now, LOL 🙂