A built-in bookshelf can transform both the functionality and aesthetics of a room. Beyond offering a place to hold your books and keep them from piling up in a corner or on a table, built-in ...

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 ...

IKEA's BILLY series can be transformed into anything, even upgrading your kitchen on a budget. Here is how to use them to ...

Living rooms are rarely designed around one particular wall, but that's exactly what the DIYer behind this IKEA hack decided to do. After discovering an old window cavity that she reinstated during ...

Mark the location of the framing and snap chalk lines on the wall. Make sure there’s at least a 1/2 inch between the outside lines and the walls, floor and ceiling, and that the lines are level and ...

I'm not a bookworm, but I do read a lot of books. You wont believe how many books I have on my bookcase. Sitting on a comfortable place and reading a novel is great, but how about sitting inside a ...

Here we have a GREAT idea in the “Stuff-Your-Stuff Theater Set” from Pottery Barn, an unfortunately-named piece of furniture with an even more unfortunate $1299 price tag. It’s probably built pretty ...

When you’re comfortable in your reading chair, having to get up to get a new book ruins some of that coziness. This custom chair makes it so you can store all your books right inside your favorite ...

Creating a customized, built-in bookshelf can easily cost upwards of $1,000. For blogger Noz Nozawa, this was not a practical option. As an interior designer, Nozawa knew she could be resourceful and ...

Like a bespoke suit tailored to flatter your body, custom-made built-ins can enhance the appearance of a home — elevating the design, offering creative solutions to everyday problems and disguising ...

I live in a 100-year-old wooden house in Norway and am doing all the refurbishing and maintenance myself that the laws of my country allow. I’m making floor-to-ceiling built-in bookcases for one of my ...

When you read at night, often you need to turn on a lamp in order to read and then turn it off when your done. What if the light would automatically turn off when you were done reading? This is the ...