Okay… I found a new site that I’m pretty interested in:  Instructables.   Basically people come up with ideas and provide some detailed instructions on how to make something.  They’ve got a pretty wide variety of stuff though.   Some really kooky stuff sometimes, but a lot of actually interesting things for people that like a little DIY.

Instructions on everything from food to home projects, to garden projects, etc…  take a look around or keep an eye on their RSS feed just to see what is being posted…

So this one caught my eye… Hungarian Shelves.  What a cool idea.  Basically I would put a vertical board on every stud across a whole wall, and then put shelves all the way across.  Some nice simple notching, no stupid “L” brackets, etc…  What a good idea!  That is if you have a ton of books I guess.

I have an issue with book shelves… I never have enough of them.   I put up what I thought at the time was a ton of shelves… by the time I got my existing books onto the shelves I was already out space and the books have already overflowed into a cheap 2 shelf bookcase (2 deep) and onto the ground in front of the shelves and the nightstand and dresser.  I like to read… a lot.

Here is the progression of my issue…

When we first moved in

So then I got these cool sort of end brackets from ikea and made myself what I thought was a ton of space… turns out i just barely fit what I had!

Brand new shelves! Look at all that empty space! Oh.... wait...

And now I’ve gotten even more books so they are piling up by the bookcase

The cup runneth over...

and into another small shelving unit

and over...

and onto my dresser (these are just my most recent ones that haven’t made it to the study yet)

and over!

So this doesn’t even include all of my wife’s books that are on two more 4′ high shelves in our closet…  I think the next house will have to have a whole lot more shelves for books.   Maybe I should just build a little library in our next house…