Billy Bookcase Built In Desk

On its own the billy is one of the most universal pieces of decor making it prime for hacking.

Billy bookcase built in desk. I am a linking participant of the one room challenge hosted by linda from calling it home. Take a look at 18 of the best billy bookcase built ins ever. Epic billy storage hack. Let s take a look at the different ways you can make a billy look like a legit built in.

Jan 25 2019 explore annette whipple s board bookcases and built in desks followed by 1094 people on pinterest. I am going to share with you exactly how i achieved this built in look with these ikea bookcases but if you re looking for more tutorials on how to get this look check out this post on lauren s site blesser house to see another way to get the built in look with these billy bookcases. I knew i wanted the bookshelves to. The base is built out of a 2 4 frame with interior studs to support the plywood top of the base.

A base elevates the shelves from the floor and gives the entire piece a feeling of substance. Creating an ikea built in billy bookshelf is something i have wanted to do in this room for years. The challenge requires us to makeover a room in 6 weeks well it s only five weeks as we reveal the room on the 6th week. How to make a built in billy bookcase step one.

The scraphacker had four billy bookcases left over from his poor student days but they were not a good fit for his grown up apartment. You ll have to excuse the photos this was way back in the day preblogging. Did he kick them to the. As much as i would love to have cute shelves showing off fun coordinating tchotchkes these bookshelves will contain 100 books.

These billy bookcase built ins totally changed the room. We d been toying the the idea of trying to build a built in unit from scratch but after finding these at ikea we decided this would be a much easy and quicker solution. This gray built in bookcase has done just that with the addition of some drawers at the bottom for extra storage. The billy bookcase is one of those ikea products that you buy for your dorm room and hold onto for years after graduation.

See more ideas about built in desk home bookshelves built in. We used the 3 ikea billy bookcases. First i built a base for my bookcases. So let the fun begin.

If you are new here let me fill you in real quick of what i am working on right now. The first thing we did was measure the wall to determine how many billy bookcases we needed to fill the wall. I got a lot of my ideas from her post. One of the most important steps in turning billy bookcases into built ins that look and function like built ins done from scratch is anchoring them to the walls and or ceiling.

Design sixty nine some of these billy bookcase hacks are about turning the billy into something that looks custom. I love to take the challenge as i.