10 Great Ways To Repurpose Old Books
Repurpose Old Books
Most of us have a huge collection of books that we keep in our house for various reasons. It can be textbooks from high school and college. Or random collection of cheap books that we bought from book fairs. No matter what the reason it may be, when it’s starting to pile up, we have to do something about it. Donating them is the easiest but there can be something else that we can actually do with them before deciding to get rid of them forever. So, here we’ve round up some useful ideas on how you can reuse the books for something greater than its purpose!
1. Floating Display Shelves
The books are floating! Not only this looks like a magic display, it’s also a functional one. You can put your trophies, gundam models and whatnot for display. It truly turns your house into a mini museum.
2. Book Case
A magical book shelf made of books! Its appearance can really make a stunning impression to those who watches. You can probably make this by covering the wooden frame of the shelf with only book covers.
3. Book Planter
A stack of book makes a pretty unique planter too! It’s probably less messy if you just make the hole big enough to fit the planter instead of making a planter out of the book itself. That way, you can just simply slide the planter into the hole of the book.
4. Book Of Time
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This is literally the book of time. You can carve out some space out of an old book to fit a clock in. Choose an epic looking clock and past them in front of the book. Check out how you can make this by clicking on the link below.
If you build enough of these, you can make an awesome wall of clock that shows time in different countries.
5. Photo Album
By making slits at 4 corners of the pages, you can slide in your photos into each of the pages. Your old books can become amazing photo albums.
6. Book Lamp
This seems like a neat project that you can make with your old books. You just need to make some spacing in the books large enough to hide the base of the lamp. Then, drill a hole for the top book just big enough to fit in the pole of the lamp.
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7. Stool
If you need a short chair or something to rest your legs on, make one out of books! Install rollers at the bottom so it will be easy for you to move it around. Books can be heavy after all.
8. Planter Pillar
Stack books way up high to show off your most precious planter! You can glue the books together to secure them well so that they won’t topple over that easily.
9. Coffee Table
Here’s another great example on how we can repurpose old books. It might be a good idea to stick the base on a wider piece of board for stability purpose. If you’re not installing wheels at the bottom, it might be a great idea to hollow it out a bit to make it lighter.
10. Book Throne
Wow! A throne fit for a book worm! It really looks amazing! But, it does require a huge amount of books. And talk about weight. It’s probably super heavy to be moved around. This is probably not that practical but it can be a nice idea as attraction in book fairs or garage sales.
Books are really amazing. But, making something greater out of them too is one whole new kind of amazing! We hope this list of great book upcycling ideas has been interesting to you. We will be making more of these lists. So, share it if you like it to encourage us further!
