If you are looking to add more colour, depth and interest to a room in your house, have you thought about painting inside a bookcase or within shelving? This was a small DIY project that I undertook recently and I was so happy with the end result!
It’s been a good few years since I created the built-in bookcase from two cheap IKEA Billy’s in my sitting room. Building this bookcase hack saved me a lot of money and it has been so functional, giving us a lot of extra storage room for books, records and decorative items.
When I last decorated this space, I colour-drenched the bookcase in the same stone brown shade I painted the walls. However, wanting to add a bit more visual interest and layering into this room, I decided on a whim that I was going to paint the bookcase in Cordoba - a deep oxblood/blackberry shade by Little Greene Paint Company. I had a tin left over from a previous project where I [painted some wooden al-why-i-am-happy-that-i-gained-the-confidence-to-paint-the-furniture) in my dining room) and I loved the colour, so I got to work.
The bookcase before