This DIY is on the ‘small problem’ facet and undoubtedly dings extreme on the ‘cute-ometer’ scale. Nevertheless these BOOK-ends are a simple/satisfying DIY with stuff that you just most probably already have. There are 1,000,000 bookends available on the market, some insanely expensive, nevertheless in case you’re in quest of (and low-cost) craft to do, do that one.
Paint and Brushes: We painted our books three utterly completely different shades of gray. Barely than going out and searching for three utterly completely different paints, merely buy a small can of a grey that you just like, and tint it lighter with barely little little bit of white paint for the other books.
For the accents on the spine we went with metallic paint in Rose Gold, Vibrant Gold, and Copper.
Basic Books: It is best to make the most of any books you want, regardless of how ugly or outdated they is prone to be. Try and protect the widths and the heights of the books utterly completely different in order so as to add curiosity to your bookends.
Metal Bookends: These may very well be picked up from any office present retailer or on-line.
Scorching Glue Gun
Step 1: Start by painting the spines, fronts, and backs of your books, each information in a novel shade of grey. You don’t should be too cautious with this step since you’ll probably have to do a second coat (some information covers really suck up the paint). We painted the net web page edges of our books as successfully, so that they may hold closed and the bookend would hold collectively.
As quickly as your base coat has dried you can have satisfying accenting the spines alongside along with your utterly completely different metallic paints. Make each information barely bit utterly completely different, so that the books look good lined up subsequent to at least one one other.
Step 2: Glue two of your books together with the current glue and let that dry. You’ll then open the very best information (as seen inside the above picture) and glue inside the metal bookend. Add additional glue on prime coping with facet of the bookend, after which shut and press firmly on the complete unit as a result of it dries. You may then finish it off by glueing your ultimate information onto the once more of the stack.
That’s it! Now you can benefit from some straightforward, simple, and low cost bookends to hold up the rest of your assortment. Have satisfying with the colors and patterns – you probably can cowl them with outdated wallpaper, paint them satisfying colors, or protect it straightforward by painting them out all white or one shade.
*Photos by David Tsay, styled by Scott Horne, DIY duties produced by Brady Tolbert for EHD (paintings directed by me).
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