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Must Love Babies shows you how to make book shelves using rain gutters. I love this idea!
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Wow! What a great idea!
Cute!
clever
I’ve seen this in many classrooms..good inexpensive way to display book titles..love it!
I remember this from Jim Trelease’s book, The Read Aloud Handbook. He has lots of great tips in there!
Yes, that is an excellent book–and my copy is open on my desk right now, because I’m itching to get some of those shelves up before the summer’s over! (Pinterest is giving me lots of ideas for how, exactly, they’re going to look!)
thanks for this!! i’ve been looking for some cheap way of doing bookshelves for my boys
Thanks, Crystal!
I want to make these right this very second.
What a fantastic idea!
Love this. Gonna re-post!
I LOVE this blog and hope I don’t offend anybody with this post. I was on my way to the hardware store until I saw the word “vinyl”. I would love to be proved wrong here…
Many vinyl products contain chemicals that can leach out and be absorbed in our bodies. I can’t speak about vinyl gutters but a few consumer products I know have had issues recently with vinyl. Soft PVC toys (like rubber ducks) contained phthalates, vinyl lunch boxes and vinyl blinds contained lead that leached out. Here are some links about vinyl: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyvinyl_chloride
http://home.howstuffworks.com/home-improvement/repair/vinyl-siding-lethal.htm
A small paragraph from this link:
PVC contains chlorine, a hazardous chemical. But it also employs other chemicals to create the type of final product needed by manufacturers. For example, plasticizers — like phthalates — may be added to PVC to create a flexible plastic. PVC products that are meant to be rigid, like vinyl siding, may have lead added to them as a stabilizer. Because not all of the stabilizer added to PVC actually bonds with the other molecules, some researchers think that lead can reach the exterior of the surface of the PVC. And lead has been shown to cause brain damage, learning disabilities, high blood pressure and even miscarriages. Your vinyl siding is generally safe, as long as you don’t spend time licking it or touching it.
Now that’s ingenious!
yeah… there’s just one problem with these shelves… I would have to put up 50 of them to hold all of my son’s books. Okay, maybe only 40. But still…. they’re cute, but they sure aren’t space saving
What a neat idea!! We are currently replacing gutters so picking up a couple extra shouldn’t be a problem.
I put these up in my kids room a little over a year ago. I like them, but don’t love them. I hate dusting and have to get the books out to do a good job cleaning out crevices. They are still super cute and functional. Definately glue the end caps on, because they will regularly pop off. Make sure you get them in studs to keep them sturdy on the wall.
This is a great idea! I love it!
My 4 year old would LOVE one of these next to her bed!
I’ve seen these before; they sure are fun! I don’t know if they even SELL rain gutters here at Lowe’s and Home Depot—seriously. None of the houses sell them, because we get around 2 inches of rain a year here–not enough for rain gutters! (not even enough to own an umbrella, since when it rains, you get a 2 minute sprinkle, and it’s done!)
That should read, none of the houses HAVE them