What Was In My Hand This Week
We are rearranging our upstairs, partly to get the stereo and movie watching machine (i.e. television) away from the staircase, which acts as a sound tunnel, magnifying all sound and carrying it downstairs. Our staircase only has half a wall around it upstairs - ideal, my son discovered when we moved in, for shooting plastic toy arrows over onto unsuspecting siblings below.
For a number of reasons this necessitated the rearranging of bookcases, and almost none of my book cases have backs. But we wanted to put two of the bookcases against the halfwall over the stairs. On the other hand, we don't want books constantly tumbling out of the open backs on to the heads of family members and visitors using the stairs.
We could have put some thin plywood there, but it would be hideous and the backs can be seen as people head downstairs. We could have painted the plywood, which we didn't have, but that would have taken time for it dry and I was impatient to get moving on the project.
So we chose vinyl flooring and a staple gun:
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7 Responses to “What Was In My Hand This Week”
September 16th, 2011 at 8:31 am
That’s a good idea. I have end tables in my living room that have unfinished wood on the backs, but I don’t have them pushed against a wall, so it shows. I’ve been thinking about painting them black, but the wood is cherry, so it won’t look perfect. If I used something with a pattern, it would probably look better. What’s in my hand is fabric. I should be able to wrap it around the back panel with a staple gun in no time at all. Thanks for the inspiration!
September 16th, 2011 at 9:19 am
I am admiring your wheel.
September 16th, 2011 at 12:00 pm
Fabric would be great for your purposes, I would think, what a good idea! You might even try this!
September 16th, 2011 at 3:30 pm
You could use liquid starch to apply fabric like wall paper. It would stick just fine. I used to do this to walls when we were living in military housing and could not paint etc.
Also wall paper would work. It would not be too hard to paper a book case back.
September 16th, 2011 at 5:45 pm
You must have been reading my mind…I was just going to post this and now I can link it to you! LOL
http://twolittlevikings.blogspot.com/2011/09/what-was-in-my-hand-this-week.html
September 17th, 2011 at 6:35 pm
I was looking for a blog topic to post on and yours got me thinking so I linked my post back here.
http://sillygeesedesigns.blogspot.com/2011/09/using-whats-in-your-hand-concepts-in.html
September 18th, 2011 at 11:14 am
I had two bookcases, bought for $5 each. They had no backs. I absolutely hate for my books to fall out the back of cases. Plus, that open back is another place for dust or spiders to enter. When I went to the lumberyard and explained my problem, asking for a piece of something broken that they might sell for a low price, I was show paneling. Since I had brought the exact size I needed, I asked him if he would cut it for me. He did. I brought it home and lay down the bookcase and nailed the paneling on the back. It was all perfect except that I did not prime and paint the paneling backs (part that would show) before I nailed it on. So, it was a mess and very difficult. I could even paint the back if I wanted to do so.
Paneling is thin, therefore, lightweight.
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