Rain Gutter Book Shelf

Uninstalling rain gutter bookshelves.

Rain gutter book shelf.

Whether you need gutter replacement or you re constructing a new building we have the parts and gutters to fill every need. In general books with catchy covers would look great in these homemade bookshelves. They look 10x better. You can install them in tight or dead spaces like behind a door or in your hallway.

Most of our rain gutters can be cut to your specified length max 20 ft and custom shipped directly to the jobsite. Start by attaching the rain gutters to the wall by drilling into the stud. Also you can use these rain gutter bookshelves for any collection of narrow books you want to display like art exhibition cookbooks etc. Rain gutter bookshelves are all over pinterest and it s easy to see why.

Since the rain gutters are 2 you should have one stud to drill into. The rain gutter book shelves don t look like i anticipated they would. In one word very. They re cute af cheap and relatively easy to make on your own.

I wanted the top shelf to hold geography and nature study books and the bottom shelf to hold preschool and science books that we are currently using. Attach stickers or decorate and enjoy your new diy rain gutter bookshelves. How sturdy are the rain gutter bookshelves. They re especially awesome for kids reading nooks because they store picture and story books with the cover displayed instead of the spine the better to capture little kiddos attention.

Depending on how high you install them they can take on the appearance of a chair rail can be used to keep things out of the reach of inquisitive younger siblings or make an attractive shelf that can hold a multitude of things. Be sure to use hangers at least every 32 apart and into the studs and they will be attached nice and strong. My wife saw this diy shelf idea on pinterest so we decided to build it because our kids need a bookshelf to put their books and this looked like the perfect kids bookshelf and i thought it was cool that it was made from rain gutters. After hanging each rain gutter shelf with one screw into the stud add two more drywall screws to each shelf.

Like many other participants i was motivated to return to my building to start installing rain gutters. However they certainly are prettier and much easier for young children to help themselves without making a mess. Rain gutter shelves won t hold a ton of books not nearly as many as the same space used for traditional shelving.