Emmett has a small nursery. Like teeny, tiny, postage-stamp kind of small. Our fam also happens to have a serious book addiction… my hubby may have basically every book he’s ever read stored on shelves (and in boxes) in our basement. So needless to say, we wanted to find a way to fill Em’s room up with all of the amazing books he’s amassed, without having to store them under (or in!) his crib. Enter our favourite IKEA hack – the library cart! Read on.
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FFORDABILITY:
As most IKEA-based solutions are, this one is wickedly affordable. The Utility Cart that we used for our library is $34.99… you read that right. Under $35 for a ‘bookcase’. Hurrah!
BLUEPRINT:
- The Utility Cart (read: library) is made of steel. It’s nice and sturdy no matter how many tales you stack on it.
- It has four casters on the bottom making it portable – we love this, because we can quickly pull the whole library into our room, or any other bedroom upstairs and choose a book to cuddle up and read!
- The middle shelf can be shifted up or down during assembly so you can leave a little extra headroom on one of your shelves if you have some extra-tall books.
- It comes in some great seasonal colours! Our teal colour isn’t available right now (apparently we got one of the last ones), but they have white, black and an awesome rusty red colour too. Check them out HERE.
CREATIVITY:
While this is a close-to-perfect solution for us right now, at some point it’s likely that Em will outgrow this library… or at least I hope he does, because if he’s not a reader I’m not sure we’ll keep him. Kidding… mostly. At that point, this cart will easily make the transition to bar cart, kitchen utility cart, or garden tool cart (maybe I’m being a little ambitious with this one… I just killed my outdoor mums). But the point is, it’s crazy versatile – just another one of the reasons we love it!
So if you’re looking for that perfect small space solution for your book-nook, go forth and IKEA.
Xo
