 Today's video is kindly sponsored by Simply Safe. Over the past month in the channel, we've been working on the main living room space in my 1929 Spanish home, and we started off by removing the fireplace mantle to reveal the architect's original idea for this fireplace, then painted that, retextured the front of it, painted the entire living room old white by Faro and Ball, and found a pair of 100-year-old stained glass doors that I installed myself with these incredible handles to create the perfect focal point in the living room. Hi guys, welcome back to my channel! Today, we are working on the bookcases and getting them done. The living room built-ins. I'm hoping you're going to be done at the end of this video. I'm just starting the process right now. As you can see, our bookcases are just kind of set up here. We went to Lowe's this morning and got a bunch of supplies for the bookcases because I needed to get some actual pre-primed melamine that we could re-trim the entire bookcase out in. I'm doing a shelf above the door. It's going to be a whole situation, so I kind of just want to dive on in because we have quite a bit to do. The built-in wall really is going to be so focal because it has our stained glass doors on it. It's also going to be an area where we can style a bunch of items. I don't want to over-style it or make it look cluttered at all. I just want to have like surface spaces where I could put things and like you know my antique finds and my thrifted goods that I always look for, so I think it's going to be fun, but let's get started. I have an idea that's probably crazy, like all of them, but I love these. Like I just love these little circle medallion thingies, and I actually use these on a lot of the window trim, and I also have them in my house on a lot of the doors and trim. I was thinking of using this as kind of like a spaced out trim on the top of the bookcases. Like if we were to space them out every other and it kind of creates this like jaggedy, peaky situation, which I'll pop up my inspo photo from Pinterest, but I've always loved the cut of this trim. It's all weird. It's interesting. I love it so much. If it's all painted it's going to look perfect. So I just did a little test, and that is kind of what I was thinking for the top of the bookcases, because we have this vault here, and I don't want to take away from the vault because it's original, and I just don't want to use like a simple piece of trim that makes this look like a perfectly straight line. I want to make it feel almost a bit more connected to this vault. So I thought having like an interesting trim like this that almost connects the two and doesn't starkly cut the top of these bookcases off would be nice. So that's why this idea popped in my head, and I'm really liking the direction so far, but we will see as we add more. So what we're doing is taking our fun Amazon contraption I shared in the last video, adding some tape to this. We're going to plug it into the wall and then push our bookcase up against it. So hopefully the tape will transfer. No, there's a hole in the wall. Actually, I ended up just quickly trimming this hole out here, so this was some paint sticks, and I just cut them down, added it on the outside. So once this is all painted, it'll look a little bit cleaner once it's pressed against the wall. And to secure bookcases to the wall, I just screwed through the side or drilled through the side and then used these two and a half inch masonry screws because the exterior wall of my house is actually concrete, which is crazy. And then I used the Ikea like the top mounting brackets because you can see how wobbly the Billy bookcases are. They really are very narrow. So if you don't use these top mounting brackets, they are honestly going to fall over. This is our stability test. Oh, that's structure. Imagine I ripped it off. Good morning. I am about to head to Lowe's to pick up the rest of the trim and the rest of the supplies for these bookcases. I ended up picking up some of those rosettes yesterday that you guys saw, and I love the idea of putting them across the entire top. I'm going to be needing some one by two pre primed trim pieces. Those are what I'm going to be trimming the entire front of the bookcase out in and then something decorative for the bottom. 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I'm just nailing them right over the top and then I'm also using some like different baseboards and different specialty trim pieces as well such as this piece of molding here which I loved because it kind of has that fluted detail to it but I placed it over the top of just a plain 1x4 which kind of made it look like a thicker baseboard and I'm re-trimming in the fronts of every single shelf, every single edge where the bookcases meet up, just everything with 1x2 pre-primed boards that will only go to paint everything. It's nice and clean and just ready to be painted. So the Billy Bookcases have a billion holes down the side and that's so you can adjust the shelves but it gives very much Ikea. We don't want that so I'm grabbing some wood filler and then just like a putty knife and I'm going to be filling all of these holes and I'm literally just like spackling it on scraping away the excess. So I want the trim on the front of the shelves to be flush with the trim that we added to the vertical sections however the shelves as you can see kind of sit a bit back from this so I'm actually just using paint sticks and then we're nailing the paint sticks down first and then over top adding the trim so really on the underside it kind of looks something like this which of course will never be seen because it's going to be on the underside but that's how I'm creating that space so think about or consider using paint sticks. Everyone commenting on this exposed shelf it's about to be covered up that's why I haven't fixed it. Case looks all trimmed out so we added the so we added the trim pieces as you could see it makes it just look a lot chunkier and more substantial it doesn't look as like Kia we're going to trim out this side and add the border on the top and then we could start priming you could see these ones are horizontally trimmed and these ones are not and these ones already have the verticals done but it just makes it look so much nicer and then the slanted shelf we're adding a little metal rail to the front of each of these shelves which is why I didn't add a new facing on the front so that's going to be going all the way across. Look at the trim and the little rosettes on the top it only took me like 10 minutes to space those I thought it was going to take me like three hours to properly do that super quick and easy and I love the way that it looks and I feel like the rosettes kind of tie in with the original rosettes that are on the doors throughout the home and then also it just kind of creates not a straight line the straight line before I wasn't loving I like how this is jagged and it just kind of leaves your eye wandering up into the vault as well. It's sanding day there's lots of sanding happening and I'm going to be wearing a mask don't you guys worry let's get started and I'd say this is probably one of the most important steps of converting your billy bookcases into really nice built-ins and that is filling in every single seam where your new trim meets up just filling in every single seam and every single little hole on that billy bookcase and then sanding it down so it's nice and smooth that way when you go in with your paint over the top it looks flush it looks seamless it looks like it was custom added to your space and this is really what's going to give you that finished look. All the sanding is done and it is time to start priming so I'm going to be using the bin shellac based primer this is a zinzer primer and I accidentally like already poured it out and covered up the logo but I use this on any Ikea pieces so anything that's kind of like that slick laminate this just allows any paint to really stick to it so we're going to do a coat of this and then we can actually get into the paint. Look how good it looks with one coat of primer you cannot even see any of the holes at all and we're still doing two coats of paint over the top of this so looks incredible and just look at how much better these look than Ikea like so pretty and good and then the trim across the top and we're going to start painting. Same color as the walls we have the bookcases primed. Try doing like right here it really is crazy how much darker of a color it is but on the walls it looks so good. It was finally time to start removing and just taking away some of the prep work so all of the tools that we had out all the paper on the ground the tape on everything I was so excited to see these bookcases finally revealed this has been one of my favorite projects that I've ever worked on so it was so much fun seeing these just like in their true form. While I was at Lowe's I also picked up a couple of these fence posts that I'm actually going to be turning into a little step in front of the door because currently the doors actually set about eight inches off the ground and that's because I believe this used to be a window that the previous owners or at some point in this home's history was converted into the doors that you guys saw before the current ones and then I transitioned them into these more vintage style stained glass doors which I love for the era of this home but I wanted to create like this little step up to the door so they felt a little more intentional so I got two of these wooden fence posts that actually just match the color of the trim perfectly and I just added those in cut them down to size and they fit absolutely perfect and then I re-trimmed out the front just to make it look nice and cohesive so this is a little step that we created up to the door just using some I don't even know what these are they're honestly like smaller railroad ties what are you doing given the floor a washing a washing with this nice um mob then and here we go for a little dip in rinse and then to strain all the water out bookcases are done the bookcases are done you guys I am so excited to share these with you this has been such a fun process and I hope that you love them and for anybody that didn't want me to do the bookcases I hope this changed your mind because I love them so much but this is what they look like they are a little bit hard to share just because whenever I film this direction because of the stained glass window it's super backlit and I've seen a bunch of comments being like you made the room so much darker but I promise you guys if I film this direction like about shooting this way it is so so bright in here it's just whenever I shoot this way the camera can't adjust properly and it just looks a lot darker so it looks freaking incredible in here I absolutely love it I love the trim on the top I love this we can open the doors we added a little step right here as well um and all the lights one two three did you see that some lights Justin actually clicked it behind the camera but um I'm getting ready to put my chairs in place in front of the bookcases which I have been waiting to see because not only are the chairs going in place I actually had the cushions reupholstered because if you guys remember I got these chairs at revival antiques a couple months back and they actually were my largest antique or vintage investment I have ever made I absolutely love Monterey style furniture but Monterey style furniture was only created for about 10 to 20 years from like the 20s to the 40s and it was more so created for the celebrities of that era this type of furniture was custom made for people that had more money during this time period and I just love the style of this furniture so there really isn't a ton of pieces of Monterey around the world and it's actually kind of hard to find like a set of club chairs or a set of chairs so when Marie from Revival told me she had a set of them and she had not had a set in the last 30 years I said I need them I need them now and I got them because I love the shape of these chairs let me share with you guys what they look like over here I'm thinking one's gonna go like here ish I was picturing kind of going to here what do we think guys what do we think oh oh it looks so good my bolstery guy did such an incredible job on these cushions look at these you guys these are like a golden chenille I actually found this fabric at F&S fabrics the fabric store I always go to in Los Angeles and it was a great price too it was like $20 and he did the piping on the edges and it is so beautiful it's like an amber golden chenille fabric like so so pretty and I love the piping detail