You will need a wood board measuring about one foot by 4 feet, a wood saw, a screwdriver and screws, wood glue, and faux the animal. By DIY approach, you can accomplish this simple task in an hour or so. These are specifically for animal lovers, who also want to show a high level of creativity. Faux Ceramic Animal Bookendsįor a high-end boutique, you may consider making your own Faux Ceramic Animal Bookend. Please refer to The Spruce for a step-by-step approach to making vase bookends. You can choose the vase filler of your choice. To make your own vase bookends, you will need clear glass vases, decorative paper, a pair of scissors, a pencil, glue, and a paintbrush. The most common ones are the vase bookends with succulent plants, starfish, seasonal accents, etc. They may take various shapes and styles, depending on what you choose to put inside the vase. Vase bookends are common trends that offer a classical way of holding your book collection together on the shelves. You can now enjoy your homemade bookends and keep your books intact. Glue the assembled unit onto your bookshelf to form the needed bookends. Paint it with your favorite color, and then screw it onto the metal sheet. In addition to the phones, you will need a sheet of metal, screws, glue, drill with drill bits, and paint.Ĭut off the cord, remove the microphone, and make a center hole. I’m pretty proud of the final outcome! I love when the ideas in my head actually translate to great new projects.Did you know that vintage phones can be very decorative bookends to hold your book collection in place? Instead of hauling them away as garbage, you can decide to be crafty. This video also contains four other fun dollar store DIY projects to help you organize your life using Dollar Store products. That’s it! If you would like to see exactly how I attached the brackets to the bookends, you can watch the video below. I did one final spray paint afterwards to cover up any sign of glue on the sides of the bookends.Then wiped off any excess glue, and clamped them until they were set. When it appeared smooth, I pushed it against the side of my houses, ensuring that both the houses and brackets were flat on the ground. to do this, I squeezed some PL Premium onto my brackets, and then smoothed it out (using gloves of course!). Attach the brackets to the houses with PL premium glue.Spray paint everything with black spray paint (the houses and L-shaped brackets).Find some brackets that are just the right size to sit on the side of your houses.This project could not be easier, I’ll outline the steps to make your bookends here, but there is also a video tutorial below if you want to see everything in action! Honestly, I have a hard time scaling back projects to make them totally doable for the average person, but this one really was totally doable for anyone! Here’s everything you need to make your DIY Bookends: There are just so many great ways to DIY with them!Ĭlearly I turned my next set of bookends into some stylish DIY bookends. But I couldn’t help buying a couple more the last time I was in the dollar store. I’ve already used them in two projects: these Wall Planters and this Holiday Tablescape. So instead, I buy these little guys and DIY with them. But I LOVE these little houses! They wouldn’t be that hard to make if we’re honest, but I can’t make them for the price that I can buy them at the dollar store! Sure, you could use scrap wood, but my time is worth more than that. It’s rare that you find something at the dollar store that you actually love. These little houses are where this idea was born from. For more info, please see my disclosure page.* When you buy a product through one of my links, I get a commission at no cost to you! Thanks for supporting my blog so I can continue to bring you posts like these. That’s where my DIY bookends idea came from. I wanted something simple, minimal, and pretty that I would be happy to have sitting on my shelf. And most of them I look at and think, “I could make that for way less!”, lol.
Most of the bookends I find at my favourite home decor stores are waaaay too overpriced for my taste. But I still love the look of them! And I must not be the only one, because they’re still on shelves everywhere I look. Like half of the items on the shelf, they’re there to look good. Do you have any bookends? I feel like the only real use for bookends these days is decorative.
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