Assembling the ikea billy bookcase in less than 5 minutes. This post contains some affiliate links for your convenience. Its one of ikea s best selling pieces of furniture of all time, and definitely one. This bookcase has a height extension unit, allowing you to make the most of the wall area. And the economist says thats because nobody has books anymore. Its popularity and global spread has led to its use as a barometer of relative worldwide price levels. Ikea billy bookcase contemporary boy s room decor demon.
Apr 21, 2020 well nosh while staring at a billy bookcase. Ikea s billy bookshelf, which can already be adorned with glass doors, will be deeper beginning in october. How to build your own closet builtins using a billy. Putting together ikea billy bookcases prepping for fall. The ikea hack bed bridge bookcase is a bridge bookcase made from ikea cabinets that takes the place of nightstands and spans a full or queen size bed. The news spread like wildfire on twitter, causing additional alarm as irresponsible reporters further fanned the flames without bothering to call anybody. For a book lover, theres nothing more beautiful, and more satisfying, than a huge wall of builtin bookcases. Ikea billy bookcase to drawer hack infarrantly creative. The bookcase was designed in 1979 by gillis lundgren, ikeas fourth employee. It is estimated that every five seconds, one billy bookcase is sold somewhere in the world.
Once upon a time, a little bookcase became a beloved classic around the world. Use a hardback book and run it all g the entire frame of the bookcase from the inside. Jul 02, 2014 ikea is making changes to its iconic billy bookcase. As you can see in the diagram, the wall is continuous but indents in about 14 inches. Billy is manufactured for ikea by gyllensvaans mobler at their factory in kattilstorp, sweden. Mar 01, 2016 ikea themselves say if you have big books you should choose the narrow billy. First of all, you can create a lot of configurations. Floating bookshelves an ikea billy hack ikea hackers. Ikea s billy series is about as iconic as they come. Once thats done lay thebookcasebdown flat on the floor and use a screw driver to unlock the cams be carefull cause you got wood dials and cam post on the end panels. So for that section, i want to find a way to connect two bookcases front to back to make a doubledepth billy to fill in the space. The ikea solid wood stuff is awesome, but their particleboard products like the billy are terrible.
It was dreamed up in 1978 by an ikea designer called gillis lundgren who sketched it on the back of a napkin, worried that he would. Billy is a modern bookcase, now more customizable and used in many more ways than just for books. When it comes to hacking great storage, no other ikea product works a room like the billy bookcase. Mar 14, 2016 lundgren designed one of ikea s most famous products. Billy bookcases and the definitive meatball inside the new. Billy bookcase into minimudroom entry in the homeright bookcase challenge you can still vote here until july 16th. The company was forced to issue advice about its malm. Huma qureshi celebrates ikeas brilliant blank canvases furniture thats just made to be madeover.
You can use our shelving units to protect and show off your precious porcelain sets, the finest glassware, or store your unique collection, for example. Jessica shares her ikea hack a daybed reading nook made from 4 billy bookcases. Billy bookcase billy stylised as billy is a bookcase sold by the swedish furniture company ikea. Every nine out of 10 people in the uk own ikea s billy bookcase. On september 10, 2011, the economist published a story suggesting that ikea was changing its billy bookcases because of decreased demand in books. Ikea billy bookcase blackbrown add to cart add to cart add to cart add to cart add to cart customer rating. Pretty impressive considering we launched billy in 1979. Ikea isnt the only company helping to ease the tedium of lockdown with internal intel.
Billy the birthday boy in 1978 gillis lundgren, the designer behind billy, named it after a colleague who expressed his desire for a proper bookcase. Billy can be as small and humble or as big and proud as you want it to be. Right up there with the tarva, pax, or lack, it has had its fair share of the spotlight, especially in decorative form. Secret recipes revealed by ikea, mcdonalds leave me hungry. The ikea billy bookcase series is a classic design with an emphasis on functionality and flexibility. Billy is a modern bookcase, now more customisable and used in many more ways than just for books. For more workshop tips and rc scale model videos, visit the morons can be found here. Install middle shelf not in the middle but at an appropriate height for your desktop i chose 75cm. They move on casters with the help of a ushaped channel she affixed to the front of the shelves.
Add to cart add to cart add to cart add to cart customer rating. The billy bookcase is perhaps the archetypal ikea product. After a three hour drive directly out into the heart of the country, we came to a long low building in which every billy bookcase is made. When you need to fill an entire wall with shelves, billy s your man or bookcase. Ikea s billy bookcase is a staple of budget home decorating. I hope this helps if you are thinking about buying a billy bookcase they are really easy to. Ikea billy bookcase images new billy oxberg bookcase white in 2019 billy oxberg bookcase, white, cm this bookcase has a height extension unit, allowing you to make the most of the wall area adjustable shelves, so you can customise your storage as needed. Ikea billy bookcase is a simple unit with enough storage for a limited space or a foundation for a larger storage solution if you need it, and adjustable shelves can be arranged according to your needs. The metal bar is fixed such that part of it is sticking out. The billy bookcase is a design classic that is still a practical, flexible and stylish storage option 40 years on. It is inexpensive and versatile, easy add onto and expand, with optional glass or wood doors or additional units.
When you need to fill an entire wall with shelves, billys your man or bookcase. Ikea sells a ton of options when it comes to the billy system and its easier to navigate those options in the store than online. Ikea billy oxberg bookcase adjustable shelves, so you can customise your storage as needed. We have a wall that we are trying to put our tv and some of our bookswe have tons and were leaning toward the hemnes bookcases with bridge and tv unit but i have been looking at the billy and wondering if we could use the tv unit from hemnes and the billy bookcases. Need help connecting multiple billy bookcases sidebyside and fronttoback. Sep 22, 2009 the ubiquitous billy bookcase turns 30 next month. Ikea makes 15 billy bookcases a minute, and had sold more than 41 million units by billy s 30th anniversary in 2009. His initial sketches for the bookcase were done on the back of a napkin. Owned and operated by a family that has worked with ikea since 1952, the. The news spread like wildfire on twitter, causing additional alarm as irresponsible reporters further fanned the. How to hack sliding doors for ikea billy bookcases.
How ikeas billy bookcase took over the world bbc news. Oct 23, 2008 ikea expedit now kallax bookcase cube display 8 squares, blackbrown 101. Ikea billy bookcases in 2020 ikea billy bookcase, ikea. Lundgrens who had expressed a desire for a bookcase just. According to quartz, ikea produces 15 billy bookcases per minute and had sold more than 41 million sets by 2009, after billy turned 30 the age at which some billy owners may choose to graduate. Jan 17, 2017 low cost, functional and brilliantly efficient, an ikea billy bookcase rolls off the production line every three seconds. High speed ikea billy bookcase assembly with instructions. Then i fixed a metal bar to the back of the side parts. Straighten and strengthen ikea billy bookcase hacks for the lazy jen august 19, 2011 11 comments homefixated deals with diy on all levels from the people with the skills to make their own trundle beds and adirondack porch swings to those folks like me who might mistake an angle grinder for a pizza cutter. But every once in a while, you just need a change, right. So, we recently revamped our ikea billy bookcase hack and now we love it even. The original 11inch deep billy bookcase will still be in production as is, with the 15inch option as an additional product.
Made of particleboard, it will sag when significant weight is put on it e. Green and blue boy s bedroom with ikea billy bookcases with back of shelves painted green, brown and green striped ceiling and trina turk super paradise print in pool pillows. Is there an easy way to dismantle a billy bookshelf. It was perfect for their nursery and here it is nearly 7 years later and we are still loving our ikea billy bookcase hack. Ikea billy, bookcase, white, make use of the rooms maximum surface area with corner shelving. Billy bookcase storage ideas ikea home tour youtube. How to style the ikea billy bookcase popsugar home. But installing builtins can be pricey, and if you live in a rental, its not really an option at all. Gillis lundgren, designer of ikeas ubiquitous billy. Whether you have a little space or a large area, theres a billy bookcase setup for you. The tutorial of the day how to build your own closet builtins using a billy bookcase from ikea, a few pieces of mdf, several 1x2s, and a. May 01, 2017 we got creative and created our own ikea billy bookcase hack for a fantastic solution. Ikea billy bookcases come in height variations from tall at 93.
This was made entirely on my iphone using imovie last year at this time i was given an incredible tour of the billy bookcase factory in falkoping, sweden. How to create an entryway using ikea billy bookcases duration. The billy bookcase is one of those ikea products that you buy for your dorm room and hold onto for years after graduation. Happy birthday to ikeas billy bookcase life and style. The ikea home tour squad highlights the versatile billy bookcase system. Fix up billy without the back board and without the middle shelf 2. The billy bookcase is pretty straightforward to build right out of the box, or you can get creative and make elaborate storage that looks great. Jun 20, 2016 billy bookcases and the definitive meatball inside the new ikea museum interiors the swedish flatpack goliath has launched a permanent exhibition celebrating its history. This furniture must be secured to the wall with the enclosed wall anchoring device, it may be used with or without doors. Heres the full tutorial on how we made our custom built in bookcase made from ikea billy bookcases. I had seen many an ikea billy bookcase hack out in the blogosphere, so i knew how good those composite and laminate shelves could look after a little dressing up. Turns out thats not exactly right, at least according to ikeas pr team. We used 4 billy bookcases with the height extenders and left off the backs and 1 narrower billy bookcase with height extender in the middle.
See more ideas about ikea billy, ikea billy bookcase and bookcase. The beginning of february marked 40 years in celebrating the popularity of ikea s longtime favorite, the billy bookcase. Billy bookcase is one of the most popular items by ikea, and there are many ways to hack this simple piece. Mar 10, 2016 the billy, one of the simpler words in the ikea lexicon, was reportedly named for billy liljedahl, an advertising colleague of mr. And a big thank you to amy howard at home for providing me with free paint for this project. Since the 40cm shelf span is shorter than a besta, the shelf depth is smaller, and the construction sturdier ive just erected one billy and four bestas the billys are heavier for their volume, the back is nailed on, and two shelves are located with hooks. The basic units are 70 12 inches tall, with one fixed center shelf and four adjustable shelves. In a rural part of sweden, in a small village with about 400 inhabitants, almost everyone has an unusually close relationship to billy.
Apr 28, 2017 but, if you have a billy bookcase or any of the other super popular ikea pieces that are laminate, read on. Oct 26, 2017 every nine out of 10 people in the uk own ikea s billy bookcase. Lauras home already had wonderful, historic bones, but the living space could use a bit more character. Apr 11, 20 a perfect example of this is the billy bookcase from ikea. Ikea is making changes to its iconic billy bookcase. The making of an ikea billy bookcase apartment therapy. Huma qureshi celebrates ikea s brilliant blank canvases furniture thats just made to be madeover. This diy builtin billy bookcase project gave me an affordable way to create a customcabinetry feel for our home library. Ikea has warned customers about a popular furniture range after a third child was crushed to death when a freestanding drawer toppled over. Gillis aim was to create an affordable bookcase that would suit every kind of person and many different living spaces. There are thought to be over 60 million of them already in service. Mcdonalds recently shared the recipe for its mcmuffin.
While its look will remain the same, there will be improvements in the finish and configurability starting in august 2014, the company says. Mar 24, 2016 kristina of ich designer created a series of these sliding doors for her billy bookcases. Billy bookshelf, board 76x75cm, 2 tablelegs vika kaj, screws, 4 screwing angles, edge tape description. Thats why, although they are called bookcases, we believe they are not for books only. In 1978 gillis lundgren, the designer behind billy, named it after a colleague who expressed his desire for a proper bookcase. This is however not true for billy the iconic ikea bookcase. In case you missed the reveal, you can see that here and here. The billy series streamlined structure allows for it to be seamlessly integrated within a wide variety of decorative styles, paving the way for a countless number of opportunities to be. Today im sharing a quick and easy tutorial from our last house, kinseys bedroom specifically, that can easily be applied to any reachin closet.
The billy system is designed to adapt to many types of spaces and uses. Need help connecting multiple billy bookcases sidebyside. If youd like to see more of our process, check out the playlist below. It was developed in 1979 by the swedish designer gillis lundgren and ikea have sold over 60 million units of the bookcases worldwide. Our classroom ikea toy storage units, ikea toy storage.
The bookcase has been produced by the swedish ikea supplier gyllensvaans mobler since 1978. The firm reckons customers will increasingly use them for ornaments, tchotchkes and the odd coffeetable tomeanything, that is, except books that are actually read. She used osb, which makes the diy look modern and functional, while remaining super affordable. Aug 19, 2011 straighten and strengthen ikea billy bookcase hacks for the lazy jen august 19, 2011 11 comments homefixated deals with diy on all levels from the people with the skills to make their own trundle beds and adirondack porch swings to those folks like me who might mistake an angle grinder for a pizza cutter. Find out how people are getting the perfect storage on a budget using an ikea billy bookcase taking a piece of ikeas simple product and making it more unique and custom with some diy tricks to meet individual needs is an ikea hackers duty and dream.