The part that makes the IKEA BILLY bookcase look custom is the trim work so we added crown molding to the top. In order to add the crown, you’ll need an extra piece of wood to the top of the DIY built in shelves to have something to attach the crown moulding to. In order to do...
TheIKEA Billy bookcase hackcomes into its own again in the talented hands of Stephanie (@henrikjunehome), who created a stylish display unit to store and showcase chic ceramics and tableware. 'I used two IKEA Billy bookcases and glass front Oxberg doors for the upper portion of our dining ...
IKEA Billy Bookcase Hack The easiest way to transform a boring living room has to be adding built-in bookcases to either side of a fireplace. Built-in’s add storage space and offer a platform to display your treasured home decor items.Aniko, of Place Of My Tastecreated a beautiful living...
I looked up many Billy Bookcase hacks, likeHERE, HERE and my favorite was the oneHERE,but I could not find any tutorials where the shelves were built around the fireplace. This tutorialHEREkind of gave us a good start on how to build our shelves in. And I also found this tutorial onD...
This project, with its bespoke curves and built-in cabinets, took weeks in the making. Home renovatorMelanie Boydenof @melaniejadedesign used an IKEA BILLY bookcase hack to create built-in shelving in just a few simple steps. She bought 15 3/4 inch wide BILLY units, as well as OXBERG do...
Is IKEA The Best Budget Bookcase? So, I found my thoughts returning to IKEA. When I’d written about the Hemnes shelves before, readers had chimed in to tell me about the many ways they’d hacked semi-built-in shelves with their Hemnes. Maybe I could figure out a way to make a new...
Office Makeover Part 2 | Building in Billy IKEA Hack A couple of weeks ago I posted the reveal of our Billy IKEA Hack Office Makeover reveal and prior to that I posted Part 1 – getting a built-in library home office look using the billy bookcase. This is part 2 and today I’m ...
We used this pantry for 4 years until we moved into a new house that had a built-in pantry already. The IKEA Billy Bookcase worked perfectly as a pantry for us for those 4 years. Over the years I rearranged it and changed the heights of the shelves several times to adapt it to our...
for us in this postHERE...If you missed it, this was just a blank wall in our living room. This post has the step by step tutorial of how to build these bookshelves using IKEA Billy Bookcases (or similar inexpensive bookcases). They look just like built-ins and provide great storage...
Laura wanted the bookcase to look like it had always been there and have that “built-in” appearance so we had the challenge of matching the existing base board and crown molding. The crown molding wasn’t too hard to find a replica. As for the baseboard, in order to replicate it we...