Tuesday 7 May 2013

Book display for toddlers

When we moved into our new house I spent a lot of time researching book displays for Poppet's new bedroom, she had just turned one and loved being read to so I really wanted to nurture her interest in books.

I wanted her books to look inviting and approachable and for her to be able to choose what she wanted to read. I started off looking at shelving units where the front of the book faces you rather than the spine, they were out of our price range though. Eventually, somewhere on the internet ( I am going to guess it came from the pages of Apartment Therapy), I saw some people had used Ikea Ribba picture ledges for their children's books. It was just what I was after and at only £8 a ledge, the whole thing only cost us £32.




I love how the book fronts make the room look so colourful and it really makes a feature out of them. The only drawback is the capacity as they can only hold so much but we keep all the rest of the books in plastic storage boxes and rotate them regularly. She can't reach the higher up ones yet but can point out to us which ones she wants. Her little book shelves and bed corner is my favourite part of the house (mostly because we have not yet finished decorating most of the rest!)

4 comments:

  1. Wow. These look GREAT. I have seen lots of the Ikea spice racks as forward facing book display... but not the picture ledges. Amazing. Am mentally adding more picture ledges to my ever-increasing 'things to buy when I'm next in Ikea'list.

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    1. my mental ikea list is also pretty large! only get there once a year it is so far away!

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  2. Looks great! I was considering the Ikea spice racks as bookshelves but read they fall off easily if books are too heavy and you have to secure with strong anchors. That's not an issue per say but I would prefer something more sturdy. What did you use to secure to wall? Are they holding up ok??

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    1. Ours are very sturdy, I've even caught my youngest climbing up them! Used glue (like no more nails) and rawlplugs and screws to secure the shelves up (we have a plaster wall). No problems with books falling off, I have found we put the shelves a bit too close together so now the girls are older there are a lot of taller books that won't fit between the shelves. Still love them though!

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