Since we were on the subject of books and bookcases the other day I thought I'd show you another one of our bookcases. This IKEA Expedit is in Wille's room and houses his Harry Potter books, manga collection, DVD's, magazines, CD's etc. Basically all the stuff a teenager wants to have around. In the baskets at the bottom are software boxes, assorted cables and other stuff we (I...) don't want to see.
I love the symmetry of the cube shelves of Expedit and I also love that it's deeper than regular bookcases so there's plenty of space to display things on top. This Egyptian temple was built by Martin and Wille out of MDF after our trip to Egypt five years ago. There's Anubis, Horus and the rest of the gang.
To make best use of the deep space we added shelf raisers which we cut to size from foam core board. It's glued together with a hot gluegun. Simple and fast solution. Ours are 12 cm ( 4 3/4") tall, 18 cm (7") deep and 33 cm (13") wide.
The shelf raiser enables you to put things at double depth but are still able too see what's back there.
If you want more Expedit ideas there is a Flickr groups devoted to just that here and here you can check out photos of Expedit and other IKEA bookcases. Enjoy!
