Bookshelves??

It's not a big secret that being a teacher, I love to read books. I love to read (when I have time) and I love reading to my kindergarten students. Something both Matt and I cannot wait for is to be able to read books upon books to this little one that will be arriving in just a few weeks! When we were planning out the nursery, we wanted to save a lot money and space whenever and wherever possible. A few things we opted for were to use the dresser top as the changing table and not needing to purchase a separate changing table, therefore not needing to find space to fit the table either! We also were excited about taking an old dresser and painting/refinishing it to be exactly what we wanted. Something else that was on our minds was how we were going to store the mounds of books we have already collected for BB. The idea of putting a bookcase in the room did nto help in the saving on money and space, so that idea was OUT. After consulting Pinterest and a few blogs that I follow, we saw a unique idea in using IKEA spice racks to hold books up against the wall! Well, once I saw this I had to have them. I was beyond excited. The only problem was there isn't an IKEA anywhere near us for one and for two almost every IKEA was not showing these lovely spice racks in stock and shipping was not an option either. Soooo, my hard working husband decided with a little bit of patience and thought he could recreate these for us! Below are the pictures of the steps he took in making them. We currently have three ready to be painted and mounted to the wall once our chair arrives and we might need to add one or two more!