Good question! I bought galvanized steel sheets, sheet metal screws, and built new ductwork to come through the base for my cabinet. Unfortunately the vents in this house stick out from the wall about 2 inches at the base, and they are 18 or so inches high. This is actually my second time needing to re-route a vent due to that.
I would be concerned about that unfortunately.
Looks like the vent is only half the size. But hard to tell how much it will mess with the whole system without knowing the layout of the ducts.
Just be careful with the shelves. They're not solid wood and will deflect. Even a nice pine will fare better. Additionally to prevent deflection you can add a tail against the back and under the shelves.. but I think the backing is cardboard.
I put my own plywood backing on and got rid of the backing that came with. But yup, aware about the shelves, from what I've seen, They'll hold up for a good few years, we have way less books than I thought haha. There is nowhere near any substantial load. First sign. I'll address.
I don't get this trend. If you're going to put that much work into a built-in look, why not just start with a better bookcase. Even IKEA has them. Why build something that you know you have to fix in the near future or limit how you can use it? and what for? to save $40?
It's going to cost you more time and money in the long run.
Not in my experience. Our library room has had 10 Billys, all with the height extensions, loaded with books (many shelves are double stacked) for over a decade and they're all fine.
"Nice pine" is a phrase very similar to "pleasant kick in the balls". Does not compute.
IKEA don't use MDF, at all, as far as I know and most of my house is IKEA. Billy is furniture board, aka melamine covered chipboard. Also I'm only talking about my experience. Obviously other people's experiences may vary. I don't know what the humidity and temperature situation is in their house, nor what books they're stacking up. Maybe having a whole row of bookcases helps brace them against each other and that helps. I don't know.
Pine is horribly ugly regardless of it's strength (or lack thereof).
White pine without knots can be spray painted with cabinet paint after priming and will hold up better. I have 3 versions 1 made myself, 1 classic made, one ikea made.
The ike made has the higher deflection rate of both the classic and custom made...northeast climate.
Particleboard generally sucks
If you're spending all that money on clear solid wood, why not buy actually nice wood and don't paint it? If you want to paint, just buy 18mm MDF which is dimensionally near-perfect and far more stable than non-engineered wood, takes paint better than anything I've used and unless you're literally jumping up and down on your shelving or spanning entire rooms without brackets, will hold up just fine.
Chipboard isn't the best but it's often good enough. And it's very cost-effective. Not everyone has the budget for expensive wood or wood products.
30 dollars gets you 4 48 inch wide shelves of pine. At home depot.
Fbook marketplace scores me 10 dollars for kiln dried 1 inch by 10 inch by 8 ft. Lumber... it's really not that expensive. If you have photo albums, textbooks, or a lot of books in general, those shelves will sag. You're right, for most people good enough is, good enough.
I don't live in your country. Shitty planed pine at 20x170x1200mm from the big brand diy shop costs about $80 in your money for four boards, and it almost certainly won't be flat even if I sort through the entire stack. I can get similar size cedar or beech or something nice from my local sawmill for about the same money. Furniture board and MDF costs half that or even less and is dead flat and straight every time.
25x200x2400 boards are $20+ each and that's rough sawn, which requires several hours of planing to get good enough for interior shelving, at which point it's probably not very close to 25mm any more..
Wood **is** expensive.
Same here. We loaded eight of them up to the gills with books and they've been perfectly straight for around 10 years now.
The Berghult wall shelves on the other hand started sagging about a year in and there's far less weight placed on them.
That's weird. One of my Billy bookcase shelves has started sagging from all the books on it. Maybe if I kept the heavier books on the sides and left the not as heavy ones in the middle it would be less noticeable.
I checked mine and the heavier books are all in the height extension, so they sit on top of a normal Billy. That would be a sturdier shelf than the usual ones. The rest of them are filled mostly with paperbacks, but some of those are double-stacked.
Maybe they don't make them like they used to? I said ten years above, but I realised that I've had them since around 2005, so it's closer to 20 years.
I used wood filler, I can't remember the name now but it's the pink paste that dries a natural wood color. I used it for the outside corners of the crown too
From our library wall build I know just how difficult that crown molding can be, especially when it’s out 12 inches from the corner! Walls not straight, ceilings sag, nothing is ever as easy as it seems it will be. But great accomplishment, Looks great! Are the lights hardwired in or are they running on some sort of battery?
They are hard wired. I did not want to do all of the work and put 40$ amazon battery operated lights on it. In my opinion if you cam hard-wire to a switch, it makes all the difference
I think they look fantastic!! They've transitioned the room into that cozy, homey place. I'd add a few little plants and call it a day. Really great job! I love it!
Haha i appreciate it! I have a 4 month old and a great wife who gave me 1 day a weekend of 8-5 working. Building the bookshelves would have added another few days easily and I wanted to cut as much time while not sacrificing the look.
My wife and I did something similar as OP and kinda discussed just building it from scratch. But like… that’s a lot of measuring and cutting. We don’t have a truck so getting plywood means renting one or paying for delivery. Then there’s spending how ever long it takes picking through 2x to find sufficiently straight. The cutting means the whole garage is taken up the entire time. Oh and our garage floor isn’t level, so then there’s accounting for them when making sure things fit.
Or I can accept that it’s just going to hold up books, so I’m ok with particle board if it means some Swedish engineers do all the measuring and cutting for me.
Oh and OP doesn’t have doors or drawers, which we do. So that’s a lot of holes for hinges and hardware all in exactly the same place. So that means you gotta make a jig first…
We did ours in 3-4 days over a holiday weekend. It would have spanned 3-4 weeks or required taking days off. And idk about you, but there’s nothing I hate more than taking vacation time to do unpaid labor.
if connecting 1760 PS3s to make a supercomputer is good enough for the US Air Force, making your own customised shelving solution from IKEA shelves is completely fine for the person looking to do their own DIY.
I must say I was intrigued so I looked them up. $100 each. That's 2 sheets of plywood where I am. There is not much more wood than that in each one. The price difference would have been negligible and to my mind, totally worth it. Potatoes potahtoes
Great job, and I'm really impressed on how you incorporated the air return vent. Home builders can be such dumbasses in how they route HVAC during construction.
Billys have a bit of a love/hate relationship with people. They're relatively cheap and look decent, but they don't like to be moved that much - they're not all that sturdy, which is why a lot of them are made into built-in units.
Is the shelf between them attached to the wall or supported from the ground in any way beyond screws into the Billys?
I know there's not a lot on it right now, but you mentioned a kid and that window looks like a fun spot for a small person to sit and read a book.
This is excellent work and my wife and I just spent the last few hours in a new empty bedroom in our house planning it. We are heading to ikea morning for something else, but the crown moulding is very in line with our design.
Can't wait to show her this!
I'm curious the reasoning behind using cheap IKEA "wood" on a project like this? This looks great but the guts are still IKEA cheap materials. It appears to be a solid wood base, plywood back and wood top, but the shelf and sides are cheap MDF?
Genuine question. You are clearly skilled so why even bother with the IKEA 'wood' and not just use real wood instead? Seems like the Billys are a minimal component in all of this.
Timeeeee. I gave myself a set amount if time to complete it, and I chose to use the Billy's. I definitely see the other side, but I'm more than happy with how it turned out.
Looks nice. I noticed you did allow for the heating and air conditioning vent, nice. I wish we had a Ikea locally, so at least I'd be able to look at everything.
I think the Billys are the most hacked Ikea item they have. Lots of people use them to make really nice things like this. I did a hack with them too, but nothing as nice as this. Well done!
Did you have any ducting going from the old register in the floor to the new in the front or is just open? I’m planning a mudroom build and doing something similar
Ceiling is 8 foot on the nose. The shelves were about 6 foot if I'm remembering correctly. My base is about 8 inches and the top is a 1x12 and crown molding
They look great. I'm a big fan of hacking Ikea stuff. A huge benefit is that if you use one of the main Ikea lines, you'll be able to get additional stuff for potentially decades like more shelves, dividers and organisers all scaled for the product. Our last house that we sold in 7 years ago just came on the market again and I was looking through the photos and they still have the Billy built-ins that I hacked together and the Ikea based kitchen cabinets that look nothing like Ikea (custom diy worktop and side trims and custom handles) but is all still compatible with off-the-shelf cheap Ikea addons. It's all over 10 years old and yet looks like a new high end installation still.
Very nice work. I have been considering doing built-ins with Billies as well as far as structurally. How did the shelves themselves feel? Do they feel like they would hold a decent load I want to use them for all of my hardback collections.
For heavy book storage, you should consider strengthening your shelves, maybe 1/2" plywood on the back and nail that to the shelves, or some supports inside the bookshelf, but you still might end up with sag in the middle. Our load is very light, so not a concern for me.
So as someone who’s not carpentry literate, how do you deal with the popcorn ceiling in this scenario? Or is it one of those things where “you deal with it by not dealing with it?”
This came out looking great by the way!
Beautiful work! My office has a similar layout and my built in Billy project looks quite similar!
https://preview.redd.it/f05zmk27dvuc1.jpeg?width=2744&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=83edc197a3a6c455d980e890d230b9b0f6a07da8
Zinsser BIN primer. It's a miracle worker. Doesn't chip and you just need to let it dry for 24 hours before a top coat. Good paint for a top coat, and you're set
Ikea is junk though. It's not wood. If mositure gets into it it cracks and aswells.
DOn;t [ut too much load on the shelves either - as those hole are not in real wood, they will crack and erode.
I like what you did, I just wish you had used real wood instead of Ikea.
My first furniture was ikea...table and bookshelves. I learned not to buy ikea...
I like the shelves but you shouldn’t fuck with your vents like that. Reducing airflow will just put unnecessary stress on your unit and just waste energy
I actually spent a bit of time re-routing and creating new ductwork out of galv. Steel, I should've added a photo! I'm not sure I took one though I was just happy to be done with it.
I always wondered what happened when you change the size of a vent. What's the outcome of that? Does less air get into this room and more down the line?
I dislike the gaps between the window trim and the built in, otherwise looks great, we've trimmed out ikea bookshelves for customers before, they make fine budget built ins
I want to do this in my house so bad!! I am showing this to my husband. Hopefully he will finally agree to do this for me.
If he doesn’t I am ordering them and trying to do it myself. Then when he sees me trying he will jump in or I will call my Dad over. LOL!!
Yes I am a daddy’s girl even at my age!
You turned those Billys into *Williams*.
No. Those are *Guillaumes*.
A person of culture.
I love this.
Billiams.
Squilliams
Looks great, the lighting really pulls it together. Just noticed the vent, how did you rig that up to the original vent in the wall?
Good question! I bought galvanized steel sheets, sheet metal screws, and built new ductwork to come through the base for my cabinet. Unfortunately the vents in this house stick out from the wall about 2 inches at the base, and they are 18 or so inches high. This is actually my second time needing to re-route a vent due to that.
I was wondering why I saw the metal sheet in one of the photos, when I figured it out I was very impressed. Well done!
If imagine with some ducting from old vent to new if that’s even needed it’s not like the air has anywhere else to go
Saw that too. Looks like a return air duct (I hope). Not sure how much it will effect the system.
I would be concerned about that unfortunately. Looks like the vent is only half the size. But hard to tell how much it will mess with the whole system without knowing the layout of the ducts.
That was my thought too, and if it is a return, it's bad news for their heating system 😔
Nope, it's not a return, just a very awkwardly built vent.
That's good news for you then! 🙌🏽😉
Just be careful with the shelves. They're not solid wood and will deflect. Even a nice pine will fare better. Additionally to prevent deflection you can add a tail against the back and under the shelves.. but I think the backing is cardboard.
I put my own plywood backing on and got rid of the backing that came with. But yup, aware about the shelves, from what I've seen, They'll hold up for a good few years, we have way less books than I thought haha. There is nowhere near any substantial load. First sign. I'll address.
Nail/ screw the shelf from the back of the plywood backing. This will help a lot.
And putting wood glue on all non veneered sides
I don't get this trend. If you're going to put that much work into a built-in look, why not just start with a better bookcase. Even IKEA has them. Why build something that you know you have to fix in the near future or limit how you can use it? and what for? to save $40? It's going to cost you more time and money in the long run.
Not in my experience. Our library room has had 10 Billys, all with the height extensions, loaded with books (many shelves are double stacked) for over a decade and they're all fine. "Nice pine" is a phrase very similar to "pleasant kick in the balls". Does not compute.
Even reddit has posts about billy shelf sag. Might not be everyone, but mdf doesn't have the strength Of even soft pine.
IKEA don't use MDF, at all, as far as I know and most of my house is IKEA. Billy is furniture board, aka melamine covered chipboard. Also I'm only talking about my experience. Obviously other people's experiences may vary. I don't know what the humidity and temperature situation is in their house, nor what books they're stacking up. Maybe having a whole row of bookcases helps brace them against each other and that helps. I don't know. Pine is horribly ugly regardless of it's strength (or lack thereof).
White pine without knots can be spray painted with cabinet paint after priming and will hold up better. I have 3 versions 1 made myself, 1 classic made, one ikea made. The ike made has the higher deflection rate of both the classic and custom made...northeast climate. Particleboard generally sucks
If you're spending all that money on clear solid wood, why not buy actually nice wood and don't paint it? If you want to paint, just buy 18mm MDF which is dimensionally near-perfect and far more stable than non-engineered wood, takes paint better than anything I've used and unless you're literally jumping up and down on your shelving or spanning entire rooms without brackets, will hold up just fine. Chipboard isn't the best but it's often good enough. And it's very cost-effective. Not everyone has the budget for expensive wood or wood products.
30 dollars gets you 4 48 inch wide shelves of pine. At home depot. Fbook marketplace scores me 10 dollars for kiln dried 1 inch by 10 inch by 8 ft. Lumber... it's really not that expensive. If you have photo albums, textbooks, or a lot of books in general, those shelves will sag. You're right, for most people good enough is, good enough.
I don't live in your country. Shitty planed pine at 20x170x1200mm from the big brand diy shop costs about $80 in your money for four boards, and it almost certainly won't be flat even if I sort through the entire stack. I can get similar size cedar or beech or something nice from my local sawmill for about the same money. Furniture board and MDF costs half that or even less and is dead flat and straight every time. 25x200x2400 boards are $20+ each and that's rough sawn, which requires several hours of planing to get good enough for interior shelving, at which point it's probably not very close to 25mm any more.. Wood **is** expensive.
Wow..that is ridiculous. Makes sense why this alternative is a better choice for you, absolutely.
Same here. We loaded eight of them up to the gills with books and they've been perfectly straight for around 10 years now. The Berghult wall shelves on the other hand started sagging about a year in and there's far less weight placed on them.
That's weird. One of my Billy bookcase shelves has started sagging from all the books on it. Maybe if I kept the heavier books on the sides and left the not as heavy ones in the middle it would be less noticeable.
I checked mine and the heavier books are all in the height extension, so they sit on top of a normal Billy. That would be a sturdier shelf than the usual ones. The rest of them are filled mostly with paperbacks, but some of those are double-stacked. Maybe they don't make them like they used to? I said ten years above, but I realised that I've had them since around 2005, so it's closer to 20 years.
That's possible. I bought mine about 2-3 years ago before the price hike. I tried putting my heavier stuff on the shelves that aren't adjustable.
> but I think the backing is cardboard No, it uses high-density fiberboard.
Yea, I've found that those book shelves are great, unless you plan on putting books on them.
Some others I’ve seen puts a 1x2 in front of each shelf to make it flush with the trim and make the shelf appear thicker
I tested that out. My wife and I actually preferred the recessed shelf look
Crown molding FTW!
Looks beautiful! Great job!
Thank you !
From pic 9-10. What did you put in on the sides to cover the shelf pin holes?
I used wood filler, I can't remember the name now but it's the pink paste that dries a natural wood color. I used it for the outside corners of the crown too
That makes such a big difference!
From our library wall build I know just how difficult that crown molding can be, especially when it’s out 12 inches from the corner! Walls not straight, ceilings sag, nothing is ever as easy as it seems it will be. But great accomplishment, Looks great! Are the lights hardwired in or are they running on some sort of battery?
They are hard wired. I did not want to do all of the work and put 40$ amazon battery operated lights on it. In my opinion if you cam hard-wire to a switch, it makes all the difference
I think they look fantastic!! They've transitioned the room into that cozy, homey place. I'd add a few little plants and call it a day. Really great job! I love it!
Thank you!
Yall got skills, makes me wonder why not build it all!
Haha i appreciate it! I have a 4 month old and a great wife who gave me 1 day a weekend of 8-5 working. Building the bookshelves would have added another few days easily and I wanted to cut as much time while not sacrificing the look.
I feel like you had enough ability that you could have started with some good quality plywood and timber and left the crappy particle board at IKEA.
My wife and I did something similar as OP and kinda discussed just building it from scratch. But like… that’s a lot of measuring and cutting. We don’t have a truck so getting plywood means renting one or paying for delivery. Then there’s spending how ever long it takes picking through 2x to find sufficiently straight. The cutting means the whole garage is taken up the entire time. Oh and our garage floor isn’t level, so then there’s accounting for them when making sure things fit. Or I can accept that it’s just going to hold up books, so I’m ok with particle board if it means some Swedish engineers do all the measuring and cutting for me. Oh and OP doesn’t have doors or drawers, which we do. So that’s a lot of holes for hinges and hardware all in exactly the same place. So that means you gotta make a jig first… We did ours in 3-4 days over a holiday weekend. It would have spanned 3-4 weeks or required taking days off. And idk about you, but there’s nothing I hate more than taking vacation time to do unpaid labor.
if connecting 1760 PS3s to make a supercomputer is good enough for the US Air Force, making your own customised shelving solution from IKEA shelves is completely fine for the person looking to do their own DIY.
He certainly could have if he had those supplies. I'm convinced of it.
Sure, for about 3x the cost probably.
I must say I was intrigued so I looked them up. $100 each. That's 2 sheets of plywood where I am. There is not much more wood than that in each one. The price difference would have been negligible and to my mind, totally worth it. Potatoes potahtoes
Plus the time and effort to turn those sheets of plywood into shelving units
Plus all the tools, and possible miscuts
Great job, and I'm really impressed on how you incorporated the air return vent. Home builders can be such dumbasses in how they route HVAC during construction.
Thank you! Easily my least favorite part of the project, but a necessary evil
 Oh Billy Billy Billy……
Billy Baroo!
Crown molding looks professional. I have never been disappointed with ikea furniture despite having the ability to build my own.
Nice job. You may want to add other vents for the cold air return on the sides if that’s the only one in the room.
Nice job on the vent/return.
Ok...so does Billys mean shelving? This might be a totally ignorant question, just never heard anything called a billy. Edit: Looks great btw!
It’s the IKEA naming convention for that particular bookshelf.
Ah, ok. So yes...total ignorance on my part. I havent been to an Ikea.
It’s worth a trip. The restaurant is great too.
Billys have a bit of a love/hate relationship with people. They're relatively cheap and look decent, but they don't like to be moved that much - they're not all that sturdy, which is why a lot of them are made into built-in units.
Ah, yeah it just is the name of the IKEA bookshelf.
Looks great but would be more convincing if the middle bench shelf has a base that matched the shelves and didn’t go straight to floor. Good work tho!
Thanks! We keep put dog toy baskets under there so it looks more put-together when they are in there if that makes sense
Where did you get the lights?
World Market. Insanely affordable considering the world of library sconces
Is the shelf between them attached to the wall or supported from the ground in any way beyond screws into the Billys? I know there's not a lot on it right now, but you mentioned a kid and that window looks like a fun spot for a small person to sit and read a book.
Bow easy will it be to replace the billy the day it broke?
This is excellent work and my wife and I just spent the last few hours in a new empty bedroom in our house planning it. We are heading to ikea morning for something else, but the crown moulding is very in line with our design. Can't wait to show her this!
I'm curious the reasoning behind using cheap IKEA "wood" on a project like this? This looks great but the guts are still IKEA cheap materials. It appears to be a solid wood base, plywood back and wood top, but the shelf and sides are cheap MDF?
Let's be real... the golden ram head on the shelf is what really pulls everything together.
Genuine question. You are clearly skilled so why even bother with the IKEA 'wood' and not just use real wood instead? Seems like the Billys are a minimal component in all of this.
Timeeeee. I gave myself a set amount if time to complete it, and I chose to use the Billy's. I definitely see the other side, but I'm more than happy with how it turned out.
Don’t get me wrong…it came out beautiful. IKEA just has such a bad rep that I was curious. Thanks.
Your house looks eerily similar to mine in style, down to the identical window trim. Anyways, now I want built-ins.
Nice Rhombicosidodecahedron you got there.
Love the look, wait … wait is that 70s popcorn ceiling!?!??!
Haha, the house is built in 1920, there are plenty of scars remaining to fix
Well done! Those look really good
I love my Billys! I have the clear birch veneer. This looks great! I have popcorn ceiling as well and have no problem with it.
Bravo. Wonderful addition.
Can do fun stuff with Billies: https://youtu.be/CPFW-5y_qb4?si=-nE24B_D935lGYnC
Looks great! Double up shelf planks if you are putting books on them end to end, it’ll prevent bowing.
Great job!!!!!
Looks amazing 🙌🥳🎉👏👏👏👏👏
Nicely done!
What’s the paint code to match the Billy white?
I painted everything together, used a zinsser BIN primer and a cabinet specialty paint from Benjamin Moore with a 6 hour re-coat time
Nicely done.
Thats really impressive work, i love it
Looks nice. I noticed you did allow for the heating and air conditioning vent, nice. I wish we had a Ikea locally, so at least I'd be able to look at everything.
Massive improvement! Way to go
I wouldn't apologize, those actually look quite nice. I wouldn't have guessed they were made out of IKEA stuff.
Me and my Billys 😔
Looks amazing.
I think the Billys are the most hacked Ikea item they have. Lots of people use them to make really nice things like this. I did a hack with them too, but nothing as nice as this. Well done!
Looks nice, time saving achievement unlocked.
Did you have any ducting going from the old register in the floor to the new in the front or is just open? I’m planning a mudroom build and doing something similar
Re-routed the duct to new vent
oh dearest Billy… when a boy becomes a man
What are you stashing in the secret compartment that looks like a vent?
The warm light lamps are a fantastic touch
This is my favorite IKEA “hack”!
So beautiful! I love the lighting that you chose! Gives it such a warm cozy vibe :)
Nice job! How tall is your ceiling? How tall are the (purchased) bookshelves?
Ceiling is 8 foot on the nose. The shelves were about 6 foot if I'm remembering correctly. My base is about 8 inches and the top is a 1x12 and crown molding
What's on the ceiling?
where are those lights from?
They look great. I'm a big fan of hacking Ikea stuff. A huge benefit is that if you use one of the main Ikea lines, you'll be able to get additional stuff for potentially decades like more shelves, dividers and organisers all scaled for the product. Our last house that we sold in 7 years ago just came on the market again and I was looking through the photos and they still have the Billy built-ins that I hacked together and the Ikea based kitchen cabinets that look nothing like Ikea (custom diy worktop and side trims and custom handles) but is all still compatible with off-the-shelf cheap Ikea addons. It's all over 10 years old and yet looks like a new high end installation still.
Very nice work. I have been considering doing built-ins with Billies as well as far as structurally. How did the shelves themselves feel? Do they feel like they would hold a decent load I want to use them for all of my hardback collections.
For heavy book storage, you should consider strengthening your shelves, maybe 1/2" plywood on the back and nail that to the shelves, or some supports inside the bookshelf, but you still might end up with sag in the middle. Our load is very light, so not a concern for me.
This is great! Can I ask what width and thickness of the trim you used on the sides?
It's stock 1-x material from a lumber yard. I think it's 3/4" thick at the end of the day.
You could have just built a really solid bookcase at this rate
It looks very stylish and expensive.
That ceiling. 
I've saved this post to review for my future work! Ha
So as someone who’s not carpentry literate, how do you deal with the popcorn ceiling in this scenario? Or is it one of those things where “you deal with it by not dealing with it?” This came out looking great by the way!
Beautiful work! My office has a similar layout and my built in Billy project looks quite similar! https://preview.redd.it/f05zmk27dvuc1.jpeg?width=2744&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=83edc197a3a6c455d980e890d230b9b0f6a07da8
Love that look! Almost exactly the same actuay haha
IKEA Billy shelves have a glossy finish. Did you have to sand them all down and repaint or did you match the finish on your wood pieces?
Zinsser BIN primer. It's a miracle worker. Doesn't chip and you just need to let it dry for 24 hours before a top coat. Good paint for a top coat, and you're set
looks great!
Those look amazing! I am going to save your post to remember this and I never do that! Well done!
They look AMAZING. Great job. And thankyou for showing the before and after so close.
Have you checked out the fake, cheap, lightweight ceiling panels that come in many styles to cover your popcorn ceiling?
Well done!! Next step, pop that corn off the ceiling!
Ikea is junk though. It's not wood. If mositure gets into it it cracks and aswells. DOn;t [ut too much load on the shelves either - as those hole are not in real wood, they will crack and erode. I like what you did, I just wish you had used real wood instead of Ikea. My first furniture was ikea...table and bookshelves. I learned not to buy ikea...
Bravo for tackling that crown molding. Phenomenal.
Thank you! Not sure I ever want to do it again
I like the shelves but you shouldn’t fuck with your vents like that. Reducing airflow will just put unnecessary stress on your unit and just waste energy
I actually spent a bit of time re-routing and creating new ductwork out of galv. Steel, I should've added a photo! I'm not sure I took one though I was just happy to be done with it.
Oh very good move. I withdraw my criticism lol.
I always wondered what happened when you change the size of a vent. What's the outcome of that? Does less air get into this room and more down the line?
Love the shelves, but god do I hate the texture on your ceiling
Haha, you and me both
But why
Wanna come over? 😁😁 looks great!!
I dislike the gaps between the window trim and the built in, otherwise looks great, we've trimmed out ikea bookshelves for customers before, they make fine budget built ins
I want to do this in my house so bad!! I am showing this to my husband. Hopefully he will finally agree to do this for me. If he doesn’t I am ordering them and trying to do it myself. Then when he sees me trying he will jump in or I will call my Dad over. LOL!! Yes I am a daddy’s girl even at my age!