Crafting

14 Ridiculously Easy DIY Bookends for Your Shelves

Elizabeth Allen

Staff Writer

Lifelong book lover, Elizabeth Allen managed to get a degree in something completely unrelated that she never intends to use. She’s a proud Connecticut native who lives in a picturesque small town with her black olive-obsessed toddler daughter, her prom date-turned-husband, and her two dim-witted cats Penny Lane and Gretchen Wieners. She spends her days trying to find a way to be paid to read while drinking copious amounts of coffee, watching episodes of Gilmore girls until the DVDs fail, waiting for her husband to feed her, and being obnoxiously vain about her hair. Elizabeth’s work can be found at www.blackwhitereadbooks.com, where she is currently reading and reviewing all of the books referenced in Gilmore girls. She is also the cohost of two podcasts discussing the work of Amy Sherman-Palladino (“Under the Floorboards” and “Stumbling Ballerinas”). Basically, her entire goal in life is to be a bookish Lorelai Gilmore. She clearly dreams big. Twitter: @BWRBooks

Let’s be honest, the anatomy of a good bookend is “something heavy-ish”. So while it doesn’t seem like rocket science, it is nice that the sky is the limit for all the creative ways in which you can successfully keep your book collection from crushing you under its weight. So why spend a ton of money on a tasteful objet d’art from Pottery Barn when you can hit up your local Michaels and break out the Mod Podge! Here are tutorials for fourteen great DIY bookends that will be easy to make but hard to forget!

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Have you ever made a do-it-yourself bookend?