Starting from scratch? Consider your shelves' height. When building your built-in bookcases from the ground up, carefully consider how big you want them to be. The two major details to nail down ...

If you like the look of built-in bookcases, but not the look of the bill from the contractor who installs them, you can build them yourself with some basic carpentry skills and some modified pre-made ...

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Built-in bookcases add a ton of storage and also can really transform the look of your space. This tutorial from the Just a Girl blog walks you through the steps of using inexpensive Ikea bookcases as ...

At what point in a project, readers often ask, should an interior designer be called in to help. I can only respond, "Before it starts to hurt." Professional designers don't come cheap, it's true, but ...

There aren’t many DIY projects that will give you as much bang for the buck as this dramatic drywall bookshelf entertainment center. Granted, you’ll have a chunk of time invested before you’re done, ...

Christie’s will offer a Lancaster Chippendale desk-and-bookcase as part of its “Important American Furniture, Outsider and Folk Art” sale in New York on January 23. Named after cabinetmaker Thomas ...

I built my first bookcase in middle school. A multitiered assemblage of wooden planks laid across stacks of bricks, it was reminiscent of pieces from the early Flintstone Period--and I was proud to ...