Billy Bookcase Built In

I dragged down this huge wicker lamp it was in my living room for years from the attic and i think it will be perfect in this room as i will bring in textures and layers with a touch of bright colors in to break up the clean whiteness.

Billy bookcase built in. The base is built out of a 2 4 frame with interior studs to support the plywood top of the base. You do not want them to move after they re installed and having them flush to the wall gives the most polished professional look. Billy bookcases are built with a stackable design that allows you to attach new units whenever you need additional storage just decide on what height suits your space best. 1 aesthetically it looked far better continued above the billy s and 2 it gave me the correct height for building in the bookcases without extensions.

For my space i used four 31 wide white billy bookcases and three 15 3 4 wide white billy bookcases. Every model in the billy series also features adjustable shelves so you can fit anything from books to trophies and everything in between. This ikea billy bookcase built in is a problem solver. Take a look at 18 of the best billy bookcase built ins ever.

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. The one in the guest room is weird and it isn t centred. In my build i extended the bulkhead that was already existing in the basement. A base elevates the shelves from the floor and gives the entire piece a feeling of substance.

This made me bonkers. 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. Like most basements ours has small windows. On its own the billy is one of the most universal pieces of decor making it prime for hacking.

How to build built in bookcases from ikea billy bookshelves to figure out how to best use the space the picture below shows how we did the math. The billy bookcase is pretty straightforward to build right out of the box or you can get creative and make elaborate storage that looks great. How to make a built in billy bookcase step one. When it comes to hacking great storage no other ikea product works a room like the billy bookcase.

And one of the most impressive ways we ve seen people hack the billy is to actually make a series of them look like built in bookcases. How to build a built in billy bookcase. Let s take a look at the different ways you can make a billy look like a legit built in. Billy bookcase built ins are in and they shine my living room you all.

I don t want to go off on too much of a tangent but the reason was two fold. I am going to add a quick preface here.