March 22: Behind the Books Secret Storage

Recently, we decided to rearrange our living room, getting rid of our TV and replacing it with a smaller computer monitor and a roku (little box from which you can stream tv, movies, music etc. from internet). Now, we have never had cable and our TV never got good reception in this apartment, so we are not giving up much or anything really. In fact I like the new setup much better than the old. The monitor, roku, speakers, and our internet are now all set up on the bookshelves. They are much less consuming of space than the old TV was; this I like a lot. However looking at all the wires and the internet thinygs was driving me crazy. So, I devised a plan, behind the books secret storage, to hide it all.

looks like real books

but the insides are missing, for secret storage

the internet thingys on the bookshelf before

internet thingys hidden behind the books, in secret storage

last shelf now complete

the new living room set-up

Interested in how to make some secret storage, keep reading.

1. Collect some books you don't mind destroying (I bought mine at Good Will)

2. Remove book cover from pages. I first used my fingers to sort of loosen the book binding and then used an exacto knife to cut out the pages.

Be careful not to press too hard with exacto knife; I cut one of the bindings, then fixed it with a little masking tape.

Continue to remove all covers from book pages. I used 5 books, but you can use as many or few as you like.

3. Decide what order you want the books placed in.

4. Use an exacto knife to cut the covers of the books. For end books you will need to leave one cover whole and cut other cover. For center books you will cut both covers. I cut off the covers at about an inch from the binding; that inch will be used for connecting them on the next step.

5. Lay out book bindings in the order they will be connected.

6. Connect book bindings using hot glue. Put a line of hot glue on the inch of cover, push next book binding cover piece to that piece. Continue until all book bindings are connected.

That's it. Your behind the books secret storage is ready to be placed on the bookshelf.