Small Apartment Shelves

Small apartment shelves are such a relief.  Everyone who lives in a small space knows this, but most places come with no shelving at all.

I used to think it was hard to install shelves but I didn't want to buy more heavy furniture that doesn't match the rest of my house and has no "flow".  So I decided, "I'm going to put up shelves on the wall so that it looks really nice.

So I got focused last Sunday to build my own "built in" bookshelves the easy way.  Here's what happened.

My office

I work from home and my desk always had stuff on it because I had nowhere else to put my clutter.

Fortunately the solution was pretty simple...  And I even got creative and made an extra unused door look like a built in book shelf.

Cost?  About $140 in materials from the Ace and Home Depot but well worth it.

Here's what I did... You can take these ideas and apply them to pretty much anywhere in your house.

Here is a "before" picture of my desk on a normal day.

Here is my desk (along with more computer screens) WITH the over head bookshelves I installed.  Ahh, so much better!!  No more desk clutter.

Next project: Notice the door to the right... My apartment for some reason has two front door entrances, this one here never gets used so my idea was to turn it into a built in bookshelf.

Door to bookshelf project...

A few steps later (including paint)...

After the paint dried it was time to put the books on it.

Now my desk and work area feels like a REAL office.