Looking for something to do with old doors?  Well, you could copy me copying something I saw in someone else’s house, and which has been written about extensively on the internets, and which some people have even made  a business out of.

For this project, instead of making a bookcase into a door,  I used three doors to make a bookcase.  I bought the back, 5-panel door, the two matching closet doors, and the trim for the top at  Community Forklift, our local non-profit salvage yard.  They were dirt cheap.  I bought two ten foot long 1×10′s to make the shelves, and used about 50 screws and some glue to hold it all together.  A full tube of caulk followed, to cover the usual myriad of small mistakes.

I heart caulk.  I stand by that statement.

Here’s how it looked:

After a layer of primer, it looked like this:

And finally, the reveal — after painting the body gray, the details orange, and the trim semi-gloss white in behbeh-safe non-toxic paint, plus some non-slip non-floor damaging feet for the bottom:

We’re pretty happy with this one.  I made a similar bookcase for our office, but instead of painting it I encapsulated its peeling paint with a coat of polyurethane for a shabby-chic look.  But that’s for another post.

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