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Built-In Bookshelves

Projects · January 2, 2012

Build-In Bookshelves

Growing up I spent a lot of my free time with my grandfather in his workshop. He was a general contractor and I spent several summers as I got older working side-by-side with him as he build homes in mid-Ohio. I learned a great deal from him (Such as, did you know there is a wrong way to shovel gravel? Well, there is, and he taught me that!) and had a great time doing it.

I’ve been slowly collecting tools over the years and have turned a portion of our basement in to a workshop complete with a homemade work bench. I’ve done a few small projects around the house but about six months ago I decided to take on a much larger project: Built-in bookshelves. I had a perfect wall for built-ins in my home office and, given the fact that I’m an avid reader and book collector, I needed the display space.

I turned first to the Internet for ideas and instruction and found this great article by Joseph Truini on the Popular Mechanics web site. I went through several drafts of plans, customizing the look-and-feel to what I wanted (painted shelves versus stained, for example) and began looking for a time when I could start construction.

I ended up having a day to myself the Saturday of the Ohio State – Michigan football game and I decided to take advantage of the lack of “help” from the boys to get things started. I avoided any big mistakes by planning out all of the details in painstaking accuracy (four decimals on my measurements) and by making sure that I always measured twice before cutting once. Below is a gallery of my results.

A blank wall
The base goes in
Routing the dados
Another view of the dados
The first bookshelf goes in
The bookshelves are all in
Adding finishing touches
Ready for paint
The finished product

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Zach Evans

Zach Evans is currently the Chief Technology Officer at XSOLIS, which helps healthcare organization manage revenue risk through a real-time predictive analytics platform. He is also an adjunct professor in the College of Business at Lipscomb University.

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