DIY Bookends [a Dollar Store DIY!]

Do you lot select whatever bookends? I experience similar the only real  purpose for bookends these days is decorative. Like one-half of the items on the shelf, they’re at that spot to hold back good. But I withal dear the hold back of them! And I must non move the alone one, because they’re withal on shelves everywhere I look. Most of the bookends I honor at my favourite habitation decor stores are waaaay likewise overpriced for my taste. And most of them I hold back at as well as think, “I could brand that for agency less!”, lol. I wanted something simple, minimal, as well as pretty that I would move happy to select sitting on my shelf. That’s where my DIY bookends persuasion came from.

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These piddling houses are where this persuasion was born from. It’s rare that you lot honor something at the dollar shop that you lot truly love. But I LOVE these piddling houses! They wouldn’t move that difficult to brand if we’re honest, but I can’t brand them for the cost that I tin dismiss purchase them at the dollar store! Sure, you lot could purpose bit wood, but my fourth dimension is worth to a greater extent than than that.

So instead, I purchase these piddling guys as well as DIY amongst them. I’ve already used them inwards 2 projects: these Wall Planters as well as this Holiday Tablescape. But I couldn’t assistance buying a brace to a greater extent than the finally fourth dimension I was inwards the dollar store. There are only thence many bang-up ways to DIY amongst them!

Clearly I turned my side past times side laid of bookends into about fashionable DIY bookends. It was SUCH an slow project. Honestly, I select a difficult fourth dimension scaling dorsum projects to brand them totally doable for the average person, but this ane truly was totally doable for anyone!

Here’s everything you lot require to brand your DIY Bookends:

• Dollar Store Houses


• Brackets


• Black Spray Paint


• PL Premium Adhesive


• Clamps

How to Make Your DIY Bookends:

This projection could non move easier, I’ll outline the steps to brand your bookends here, but at that spot is also a video tutorial below if you lot desire to come across everything inwards action!

1. Find about brackets that are only the correct size to sit down on the side of your houses. Mine were close 4″ long.


2. Spray pigment everything amongst dark spray pigment (the houses as well as L-shaped brackets)


3. Attach the brackets to the houses amongst PL premium glue. to practise this, I squeezed about PL Premium onto my brackets, as well as and then smoothed it out (using gloves of course!). When it appeared smooth, I pushed it against the side of my houses, ensuring that both the houses as well as brackets were apartment on the ground. Then wiped off whatever excess glue, as well as clamped them until they were set.


4. I did ane finally spray pigment after to encompass upwards whatever sign of gum on the sides of the bookends.

That’s it! If you lot would similar to come across precisely how I attached the brackets to the bookends, you lot tin dismiss scout the video below. This video also contains 4 other fun dollar shop DIY projects to assistance you lot organize your life using Dollar Store products.

I’m pretty proud of the finally outcome! I dear when the ideas inwards my caput truly interpret to bang-up novel projects. Didn’t I say you lot that this would move ane that ANYONE could make??

I’m working on a novel shelving projection really soon, as well as I know that these guys are going to alive on those shelves for everyone to see!

If you lot similar the hold back of these guys, you lot volition LOVE these Mini Wooden Houses!

If you lot similar to relieve money, endeavor out this DIY Lumbar Pillow from a thrift shop find!