Simple Book Shelf

Step 6 Add the Top and Bottom

Now you want to add your top and bottom. This isn't as easy to do as it sounds as gravity will be your friend (keeps you on the planet) and enemy (makes your pieces fall down) at the same time.

If you have a friend, small child or well trained dog, you want them to hold one of the sides while you insert screws through the top piece and into one of the side boards (you did remember to drill pilot holes, right? - Do them in advance next time.)

Once you've experienced having the sides fall down while you are drilling a few times and you've finally gotten the top connected to one side, carefully turn around and do the other side.

You could also lay the whole thing on the ground and have an easier time doing it that way.

The next step is to put your bottom shelf onto the bottom shelf side support. Gravity will be your enemy here too as you are going to want to drill through the support and into the shelf so that you don't see any screws in the finished product (Ikea and their visible hex screws of death have nothing on you).

Bam! Now it is starting to look like something.