Creative Shelving

I'm not talking about genre shelving or even color coding.  I've come across a few Do-It-Yourself (DIY) ideas for creating shelving at very low cost.  Just get your elbow grease ready!

These bookshelf ideas are best for a reading area, rather than for additional room in your stacks.

Ever seen stacks of pallets behind a store? Those a just waiting to be remade into something completely different from their intended purpose!  Little Lucy Lu gives a step-by-step tutorial on how to transform an old pallet into cute shelving.   The results are great!







A similar idea with less DIY is using Ikea spice racks as book shelving.  The racks are inexpensive and can be painted any color you like. Domestic Simplicity has a great and accessible display of classic books.

What would you do with some rain gutters? Clean ones, of course!  As very clever person decided to use gutters as shelving for her children's school room (via odeedoh).  You wouldn't need one huge wall for this to work in your space.  A smaller length of gutter could easily be used on a smaller wall.