 Hello guys, welcome to my channel. Today we are doing a very, very exciting video. I actually got the opportunity to do a video with Architectural Digest a couple of weeks back and I created a bookcase from an Ikea Billy bookcase and it was a really unique bookcase. It had these rounded edges to it. It had this kind of unique bottom. However, the video that Architectural Digest made was more so like following the process and it wasn't really a step-by-step tutorial and the amount of people that requested a step-by-step tutorial was insane. So I decided today that I'm going to recreate that bookcase step-by-step for you guys. This morning I went to Lowe's and I picked up two pieces of plywood. I got my brackets and screws in here and the pull wrap was actually delivered downstairs which I need to go grab it, bring it up here and we can start working on this project. I got the pull wrap from downstairs and I took my ritual which happens to be today's video sponsor. 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Ritual's taken, water has been drank in and it is time to go downstairs and start making a bookcase. I tried to find something that rhymed there but it didn't work. I realized I never shared with you guys the before bookcase. Now this is an Ikea Billy bookcase where the inside is, which I forgot to clear out of all of my holiday decor. You guys remember a while back I actually created these doors on my channel. This was a big DIY project. It was really fun. It's like a return hutch situation but ever since creating the one for architectural digest that one has actually taken place of this one and I don't particularly need this one anymore so I'm actually going to deconstruct it a bit and reuse it for today's project. I'm going to be taking the doors off of it so we're going to be using just the bookcase base itself but I'm going to repurpose a lot of the materials here and then the bookcase base itself just to create something new. Also the bookcase I'm going to be using is the Birch veneer finish which is kind of like the wood finish. However, the one I used on architectural digest was just the white one and we ended up painting that piece but for this one I'm actually going to leave it natural and I'm hoping that the pull wrap kind of matches the wood it seemed to from the one I ordered before but I haven't checked the new one yet. So that's the plan is to actually keep this one fully wood but of course you could paint it all in the end if you wanted to. All right guys, so the first step of this process is going to be measuring the side of the bookcase which I already did upstairs and it's 11 inches wide so I want to go ahead and create a circle that is 10 and three quarters inches. So what I'm going to do is lay down a ruler here and just trace out 10 and three quarters inches like the kind of start and stop of that and from there we're going to find the center point. So I'm going to do 10.75 divided by two which is basically like a little bit over five and a quarter so I'm just going to find that center point. I'm going to take a small nail and just hammer it right in that mark that we created and tie a string to it. From there you can tie your string to your pencil and once you have it tied on I'm going to use this as a compass to just swing over to our other mark just like that and there is our half circle shape where we created our first markings I just drew down an inch and a half, drew a line across and this is going to be our shape that we're going to cut out. Our half circles cut and these are going to be placed just as braces on the side equally down the side of our bookcase so we're going to do this on both sides but I just kind of eyeball it and just put them pretty spaced out. So now we're going to be using these little brackets here these are L brackets, I got these at Home Depot and we're going to be using two of them on the underside here and then one of them in the middle on the top and it's kind of just going to be acting as almost like shelf brackets and we're going to be adding our shelf here then wrapping our pole wrap around and these are going to be fastened in with three quarter inch wood screws. I find the easiest way to do this is to actually just flip your piece up like it's attached and then let the brackets fall into place hold them pretty tightly and then flip it upwards and then they're in their right position and you can just go with a screw and just put it. I went ahead and I added the brackets to the wood pieces themselves I haven't attached them yet to the bookcase yet because I wanted to show you guys something to keep in mind is that you're going to want your pole wrap to be flush with the front of the bookcase so as you can see we have our edge here which is the front and I'm going to be pushing back my half circles just a little bit that way our pole wrap when we add it it's going to be flush with the front it's very similar to the other bookcase that I created and if it does overhang the back side a bit that doesn't matter at all because the pole wrap is going to be wrapped around the back and you're not going to see that once the wall is covering the back side so just make sure you push them back just the slightest little bit and screw them to the bookcase. So our pole wrap is cut to size this is 76.5 inches tall and this is now going to be wrapped actually around kind of the skeleton that we created so this is going to go right around our half circle shape butting directly up with the top here so you're going to want to make sure that it's flush with the top and then it's going to end right at the bottom of the shelf piece right here so to get the desired width that we need to cover this area I'm just going to kind of let it up to the edge of our bookcase wrap it all the way around and then use a box cutter like this to just trim away the piece that we don't need I went ahead and added the first row of nails you just kind of pull it up a little bit and look underneath for your little kind of skeleton piece and nail it in once you have your first set you can actually flip the whole pole wrap back and kind of use it and roll it up and it just gives you a better guideline of where that piece is so then I know that I can staple right here kind of move it up a little bit, staple again you're just going to work your way across the entire piece all right we have one half of our bookshelf complete this half here it is all nicely stapled down and ready to go now what we're going to do next is flip it on its back and I'm going to work on the opposite side attaching all of our little skeleton pieces then wrapping the pole wrap around that side as well and that will be the base of our bookshelf completely done now this is a really fun idea that some of you guys commented on the 80 video actually and that was about how I should have not even fully attached the pole wrap but added magnets like here and then added one up there and on the backside of the wrap so you could essentially magnet it shut but then you can open it and they're shelving inside just an idea if you wanted to get some extra secret storage good morning guys, day two of our bookcase project now the great thing about this project is that it totally could have been finished in one day it's actually a pretty quick project if you have the bookcase already constructed however yesterday the sun was going down so I decided to go ahead and resume today so this is what the bookcase is currently looking like now what I want to go ahead and do next is actually apply a piece of wood to the bottom of the bookcase that's going to kind of square off the bottom section and overall give it like a new base to sit on because currently it kind of has like this half base created for it and I'm just not a huge fan of it so I want to put it on top of this so we can add a bit of pull wrap in the slotted section that's kind of open just to kind of coordinate back and forth then we're going to add some pull wrap to the back of this as well and I also want to see if I can mix up some stain to restain the wood paneling to somewhat match the inside a bit more now as you can see in the original bookcase I created there is pull wrap in the back as well and how I was able to achieve this look was actually just by removing the back panel that was in the IKEA bookcase so I'm just going to go through it take out the old nails and then I literally just rolled out a sheet of pull wrap it's the same exact height as what we cut it here which was 76 and a half just roll it across the back and then nail it to essentially the shelving that's all the way down it's going to reinforce the back a little bit more than the piece that's currently on it cause it's just like a literal piece of pressed cardboard and that is going to finish up the back panel section. Okay guys, so a little change in plans I was actually planning on saving this piece because I knew I needed to kind of like stain the pull wrap pieces to more so match the IKEA piece itself now the IKEA piece is not stainable just because it's a veneer however I went through and tried to do a couple of kind of sample stains on some excess pull wrap that I had and this is just some natural stain diluted with water and the natural just as is now this is natural stain diluted with mineral spirits and it does add a little bit of warmth to it but overall I feel like it still just darkens the wood to where it's going to make it look quite a bit different and I feel like adding anything to it is just going to make it even more darker and like more contrasting stand out so I think I might honestly just leave it as is but I think this is probably where we're going to be ending this project at you guys and now of course the one I did on Architectural Digest channel was fully painted and I just used a shellac primer for that the Zinzer primer and then I used a color called wheat bread to paint that piece and I absolutely love that it's just right over here. I think you guys can see this one's painted and I feel like painting it really really looks great too so I wanted to do a wood version and I also wanted to do a painted version but I do need to share with you guys the styled reveal of our wooden Ikea Billy Bookcase hack so let's go ahead and do that now.