Getting Stuff Done - Spice Racks As Child's Front-Facing Bookshelves

I am a hopeless procrastinator. I am also prone to getting wildly enthusiastic about doing lots of different things, in different areas, requiring different skills and different equipment, often costly. This is a very bad combination indeed.

However, here is one of the first things I have actually got done: front-facing bookshelves for mah chile's books.

IKEA spice racks...

..and picture rail. I also used a longer 1-metre one (the top one in the photos below), but just put that up without modifying it.

I had an awkward pillar bit on the wall, so I sawed the rail in half...

...then sanded and painted the ends, just with primer.

I drilled new holes a few centimetres from either end; I had to drill them from back to front, as the rail doesn't allow you to get the drill in the right place, but as long as you remember to tuck the exploded-out bits under the screw as you screw it in at the end, it looks fine.

I filled in the old screw-holes with putty stuff,

 

 and the rail comes with little white stickers that you can put over these holes,

 

which obviously leaves the new ones exposed, but they're hidden by what's on the rail anyway so it doesn't matter.

 

 

 

She loves them.