Tuesday, October 4, 2011

stickin' it to pinterest - vol. 3

remember back in this post how i said pinterest gave me anxiety?  how i worried about after all the time i spent pinning, i would never actually put all the carefully placed & picked pins to perfect pin-ity use?  well here i am.   continuing in my endeavors to make use of my well curated pinterest boards & stickin' it to the pinterest man.

go me!

{see previous projects here & here}


this was actually something i'd seen a long time ago... before the days of pinterest {aka: the dark ages.  what'd we do before pinterest??  dishes?  sleep?}.  when i saw these shelves pop up on pinterest in a couple places i decided it was time to incorporate them into p-ray's room.  it had to happen.

the very first place i saw these IKEA spice rack shelves turned bookshelves was here, but they popped up again here.  it's not like you need a super detailed tutorial on this one, but who would i be if i didn't provide one?  not the amy you all know & love.  that's who.

here goes.


it really doesn't get any cheaper to make some sort of awesome wall-storage for the little man's books.  at $3.99 a piece i think the whole project cost around $20 after the spray paint & wall screws were bought {the shelves don't come with anything to hang them by}.  check out IKEA's website & see if yours carries these sweet little racks.

remember, they're sold as spice racks so they're around the kitchen shelving stuff.


obviously you don't have to do this, but i wanted to match the shelves to the rest of p-ray's furniture, which for the most part is white {check out his whole nursery tour here}.  also, make sure your husband doesn't care if you get white paint all over the garage floor despite painting on top of something.  lucky for me, mine didn't.  because yeah, that happened.


it wouldn't be from IKEA if it didn't require "some" assembly.  but lucky for you & me it's pretty easy to put these bad boys together.  unless you're prone to wrist cramping from the the little wrench that's included when putting in the screws... which i may or may not be.  ok i am.


it was pretty obvious where this needed to go.  we read books on p-ray's great-grandmother's hand-me-down rocker before naptime & bedtime but had nowhere handy to store the books.  so... duh.


it's true.  while sam helped me level the shelves & hand-drill holes into our wall, i got caught up in lots of p-ray picture taking.  i couldn't help it.  because how cute is he watching toy story on my phone with all his stuffed animal friends??

{sidenote:  sunday was kind of another sick day for him.  i thought he was 100% better, but turns out it's more like 75% since his fever has been coming & going.  boo.}


parker LOVES his new reading nook.  he loves being able to sit on your lap & have all his books on display for his choosing pleasure.  just when he was getting impossible to keep settled on your lap for story time, this glues him right back down into that chair.  and for that?  we're loving it.

and for your viewing pleasure... two more pictures.  because i couldn't decide which one not to include & thus?  included them both.




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35 comments:

  1. Parker's room is so cute. I usaually don't like boys rooms, but I really like the bright colors. It's not the usual all blue. I am in the process of decorating my daughter's room and I'm getting the spice racks tommorow. I think I'm going to paint them a pastel pink though. Yours came out great.

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  2. I'm pretty much obsessed with how this turned out!!!! Great job! Golly...now I need to pin this ;)

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  3. I LOVE IT! You did such a great job. You've inspired me to want to make a reading nook for my kids that is as cool as Parker's.

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  4. Those are so amazing! Parkers nursery is lovely, it has given me so many ideas for my little boys room, I trip to ikea is needed! Parker is such a cutie too :) xx

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  5. how did you print the 'read' sign? it looks like it is on a weird size (other than comp paper). i LOVE this!

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  6. amazing! you did such a great job!
    www.modernsuburbanites.blogspot.com

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  7. Absolutely adorable! What a great idea!

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  8. great idea! and so cute! i love the read sign!!

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  9. Looks great! I saw that on pinterest too, and was going to try it. I need to hide the books in their room though, because Kendall always sneak out of bed to get "just one more book" over and over and will stay up until 11pm reading if I let her! ;)

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  10. i've been looking forward to this post!! thanks for sharing how you did this - I was thinking about making bookshelves for my little landon out of rain gutters (i know sounds weird but they end up looking just as cool) but this project looks much easier and also cheaper so i think i will have to change directions.

    love your blog!! thanks again for the post and continuing to give me a site i adore reading!

    www.mummascorner.blogspot.com

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  11. oh my gosh I totally love it!!! You are sooo inspiring me! One of these days I might actually do a project from pinterest! Keep them comin! :)

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  12. yay!!! finally! they look fan-flippin-tastic!!!!

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  13. This turned out great -- I'm totally going to copy you. Cami's rocking chair is across the room from her bookshelf so we just end up piling a handful on the floor!

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  14. I was at IKEA last week and bought two of these shelves for Kaetana's room. I haven't had a chance to paint them/hang them yet but I'm STOKED for when I actually do! Your Pinterest posts are super inspiring to me. So thanks for that. ;)

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  15. these are super cute. I really should do this in charlie's room...

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  16. Ok I've seen that Zebra in a ton of Parker's pictures... where in the world did you get him?! He is adorable!!!

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  17. That' looks awesome Amy! I need some of your motivation skillz to actually drive my fat ass to ikea and buy these spice racks LOL the closest IKEA is about 40 min away =/ but I will be doing this for Jazzy's room.....someday!! LOL

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  18. so so cute! i love it! i think i'd need about 30 though. dane has a lot of books. maybe i should just weed out the lame ones. and that baby book on the top left..the big board one. that is dane's fave! well, it used to be. he likes it less now. but still likes it. and that ends the story of which book my son loves. as if you cared. ha.

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  19. We're in the process of doing this, as well, so it's nice to see it done in someone else's nursery!
    Looks fabulous!
    Also, the dotted blanket...we have that! That is our bedding for D's crib!

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  20. Putting the spice racks on my Ikea shopping list right NOW! These turned out so perfect! Good job!!

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  21. Those turned out really nice! I wish our nursery had more wall space so I could do this.

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  22. Oh my gosh how easy yet so pretty... Love it!

    You did great!

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  23. I love this! I've been looking for a replacement for Hannah's dingy old bookcase. This is going on my to do list.

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  24. YAY! I love it. Too cute. Too bad we don't have an Ikea close...

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  25. This looks great!! I love organizational tools more than life itself:) I love these posts, Pinterest is amazing and its cool to see people putting it to use.

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  26. I have been trying to decide on shelving for our 'reading nook' and I'm sold! :) THanks for sharing - looks fantastic! I LOVE that last picture!!

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  27. I love it! I've been trying to do this project FOREVER, but my Ikea never has the shelves.

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  28. His room is adorable, like magazine worthy adorableness! Great little bookshelves ... and I think we have everyone of those books as well! Now I want to make a couple of those shelves too!

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  29. Such a great idea Amy! LOVE it.

    (Can't believe how big he's getting!)

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  30. SO awesome! Love it. Conner has an actual bookcase and he loves picking out books from it.

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  31. Love the room. Thanks for the great ideas.

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  32. Working on this today to go next to Cami's new twin mattress!

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