Inverted Bookshelf

Step 6 Sit back and enjoy

You can leave it as is or go for some more realism by gluing some toys, bookends, or even a fake drink to the bottom of the board to complete the look!

Comments

[fmachado1]

How did you hide elastic???

[Mr. D.]

Open the front cover, insert book, close front cover.

[Electronics Man]

AWSOME!

[squante]

This is brilliant! It even gives you room to put stuff on top of it :D

[Freelog]

Just genius!

[cositasbonitas]

amazing!!!!! thank you for sharing us!!!!

[critternerd]

You know, they say English is the hardest language to learn...

[Sketch98]

thats because no one speaks using proper English grammar

[rymndgeekyguy]

it's the biggest not the hardest to learn to communicate fully, but hardest to master

[Heywasup]

 actually the hardest is arabic

[SimoMies]

Really? I personally thought that it was Chinese, but I stand corrected. Finnish is quite tricky aswell :3

[lapiosaatana]

mm suomi on top 10 vaikeimissa enkku on helppo same in english:
yeah finnish is in top 10 languages and english is easy

[ZokiS]

 HB> ?@028<5 A> 0:54>=A:8>2? > 8<0 =0 ;8AB0B0?
What about Macedonian? Where is is located on the list?

[I3uckwheat]

I vote algebra

[lapiosaatana]

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_the_top_ten_hardest_languages_in_the_world

http://www.crystalkiss.com/worlds-hardest-languages-learn/

http://www.ehow.com/info_7984996_top-10-hardest-languages-learn.html

Some proofs that finöand is hard to learn.

[kyriaap]

Don't forget Dutch.. when do use a 'd' or a 't' and using the correct grammar?

[smileys]

Russian is pretty hard I hear. Also do dead languages count? If so what about Greek or Latin.

On a different note, this is a great Instructable really made me scratch my head at first.

[irocandrew]

 I think that using velcro would be more easier to use as you don't need staples and it would allow you to take books out and put them back easily

[dispyto4u]

 Nice!!!!!!!!

[stevco]

Hi,
I made it!
It took me several days, in fact this can be done in several hours but getting the whole equipment, materials and setting everything, takes 2 or 3 days.

Here is my attempt: withineye.deviantart.com/art/Surreal-Bookcase-144052356

Thank you very much for your kind and understandable tutorial!

[fungus amungus]

Hey! Great job!

[stevco]

thank you!

[kuriinaa]

I disagree Dust in books simply mean you should clean more often .  0_~

[rosa.bernardez]

Such a wonder. With this design you don't need to clean the dust on the books. It is a dust-proof design.

[picaq]

Yes! Dust in books is so disgusting.

[0087adam]

Dust in books means they aren't read enough; donate them to a local school or library.

[Archive555]

I disagree. Dust in books means you loved the book so much you want your kids and grandkids to read it, when and if you have them.

[lycoris3]

I just got a bunch of very old books with a puff of dust in all of them. I'm still coughing from the 1894 one. (Hack, sniff, sneeze!!) There was another one I got from 1914. Both poetry. Romance, but I find that funny.

[Rishnai]

Love it! Regarding you suggestion of gluing a fake drink to the bottom to complete the realism, I seem to recall Hobby Lobby and the like selling plastic flowers in vases with "water" that looks amazingly real, but is solid. Does anyone know what this is, or how I could get a similar effect with stuff I can get at Home Depot?

[Gage987]

my dad works at a furniture store and to say they have stain proof-ness the have fake spills wine, milk, glue, and ice cream.

[lycoris3]

my dad when he was in high school took a class for ads and how they do those things. The fake spill things were one of the many very odd things they used. The "milk" for the cereal commercials? Water-downed glue.

[santy22]

AHA! i KNEW IT!

[LordOlimar]

I used to work at Michael's Arts and Crafts. We sold a product (the name I can't remember for the life of me - sorry) that was meant to resemble water. It was used in fake Floral designs. Basically you just added water to the pre-packaged mix, poured it into whatever container you were using, and let it dry. It was pretty permanent though from what I remember, so make sure you're using a container you don't really need any more. I'm pretty sure they would sell this at Hobby Lobby, Jo-Anne's, etc also. Pretty much any arts place that sells fake flowers. You could definitely use that. Just go in, describe the product, and they should know exactly what you're talking about. You may even be able to add coloring to make it look like something besides water (although I don't know anyone who's tried it before).

[bassclarinet23]

Let me know if you remember what the mix was called...it sound pretty practical for what I plan to do.

[LordOlimar]

I did a quick search.  The product we sold was called Quick Water.  I can't find it on the Michael's website, so I'm not sure if they still sell it or not.

There is a short description of it here:  http://www.save-on-crafts.com/quicwat12ozs.html

[bassclarinet23]

Okay, thanks. I'll look for it.

[Myself]

Plain old WEST epoxy should cure pretty clear. It's pretty expensive per ounce, but it'd sure hold tight! I wouldn't glue it to the shelf, though. First, don't use a wooden shelf: Get a metal shelf and put woodgrain shelf paper on it. (Use screws to attach the elastic band?) Then affix tiny magnets to the toys and brick-a-brack, so you can unstick them from the bottom at any time, too. My kingdom to whoever figures out how to do an umop-apisdn fountain, piggybank, or candybowl. :)

[mikeyberman]

A piggybank could be done with a vertical line of greased magnets of increasing strength (increasing as you go upwards). But it wouldn't hold much money at all...

[mandae17]

Depends where the slot for inserting money was in relation to the rest of the piggybank

[mikeyberman]

Ah true, you'd just need a fake slot on the bottom :) Seems so obvious now :P