The book can serve not only as a sourceinformation, but also a stylish decorative accessory. To do this, it needs to be “correctly” presented. How to do this and what can help you with this - we will tell you in our article In the era of the Internet, laptops, smartphones and readers, when almost any text or work can be read directly from the display, many refuse traditional information carriers - books. However, to this day, the presence of printed literature in the interior is perceived as an indicator of the level of culture of its inhabitants. Therefore, you should not store your favorite books on distant, inaccessible shelves. It is much better to choose a worthy pedestal for them and put them on display for everyone to see as a decorative composition with an intellectual subtext. We suggest you make an unusual wall shelf in the form of a suspension bridge with your own hands, using IKEA products and a standard set of tools.
Materials and tools:
- wooden blocks or a wooden board at least 2 centimeters thick (in our example - Statlig Board from IKEA);
- Shelf holders (in our example - Ekby Bjarnum from IKEA);
- Cord (or rope, tourniquet, tight elastic);
- Metal washers;
- drill;
- saw.
Select bars of the required sizesis quite difficult, so if you fail, just buy a wooden board and cut it into pieces. In our example, 13 pieces of board were used to create the bridge shelf, two of which are 6.5 centimeters wide, and the remaining 11 are 5 centimeters wide.
It is necessary to drill two through holes in the end of each block. It is important that the holes are located identically on all blocks. Before starting work, check the photo.
Cut two pieces of cord.Tie a strong knot at one end of each piece. You can use glue to secure the knot. Then thread the loose ends first through the first block (6.5 cm wide) and then through the others. Use steel washers (three for each hole in our example) as spacers between the blocks. The second wide block should complete the row.
Attach the ends of your bridge (wide bars) to the brackets (IKEA shelf holders) and hang the structure on the wall.
The new original shelf in the form of a hanging bridge is ready. Now you have a worthy display platform for your favorite books that never go out of fashion.
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