Build Your Own Bookcase
A standard six shelf bookshelf can be tailored to any color scheme or decor.
Build your own bookcase. Building your own bookshelf is easy. Or depending on if you re looking for something that adds a fresh design element to your house or something that blends in you will find what you re looking for in the photos below. You can build your shelving as high as you want but remember that as it stretches higher it has a greater chance of tipping over should your athletic 3 year old try to climb it.
Build a custom bookcase. Less than the depth of the bookcase itself. Its height must be 1 8 in.
There s no complex joinery like mortise and tenon or even doweling so if you ve hung a new door or trimmed a room with new molding you have the expertise to handle this how to build a bookshelf project. Built in bookshelf plan from this old house. We give you the steps below for building a small bookshelf but you can easily adjust the measurements to construct a case that even more successfully meets your storage needs.
We measured our bookcase for standard 8 ft. Use one to display books knickknacks a media collection or anything else that suits your fancy. Taller than the baseboard molding you plan to install to make sure the molding slips in easily.
Unless it has a wide stable base shelving that s over 3 ft. High should be screwed directly to the wall framing. You can build this built in bookcase by following our clear drawings and step by step photos or use these techniques to modify the dimensions for your own space.
Make its depth 1 1 2 to 2 in. Let s say you wanted a solid oak bookcase but didn t have the four to six hundred bucks a retail store would want for one. Besides detailed building instructions this free bookcase plan also includes diagrams photos and a materials and tool list.
Bookshelves are an excellent woodworking project for the ambitious diyer. Finding creative ways to display books can be just as alluring. The partitions shown in photos 8 and 9 can be placed wall to wall as shown or can stop halfway into a room and then finish off on the open side.
Here s another free bookcase plan from this old house this one for a 6 shelf built in bookcase that you can adjust to fit your own space. These easy and clever bookshelves look so much cooler than anything you can buy from a store. 25 awesome diy ideas for bookshelves.
The bookcases look ornate but are relatively simple to build.
