Michael Sauers blogs as The Travelin' Librarian, and, as the name might suggest, he owns quite a few books. He also has a home office, which he recently remodeled. The old office had lots of freestanding bookcases, a big desk taking up a bunch of floor space and boxes stacked high.
Michael decided he could make better use of the space, while also creating a much more efficient storage system. So he opted for something I've been preaching for many years -- he put everything on the wall. Books, movies, computer . . . virtually everything now rests on shelves resting on brackets attached to metal standards on the walls. You can see the whole project, from "before" to "finished," in this photo gallery.
Michael spent $750 on the project, but he admits that included a fee he paid someone to mount the brackets. That's not a bad price, considering the extent of the transformation. But you could do the same thing (although, granted, most of us don't have THAT many books to store) for quite a bit less money by hanging the brackets yourself. It's really an easy DIY project, which you can learn about in this step-by-step tutorial.
Photo © Jeff Beneke
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