I found this crafty little DIY on a site I recently discovered; www.roomed.nl. It has so many lovely ideas and inspiration for your home, you really need to check it out!
Today I tried out this DIY to create your very own brick bookends. Now if like me you have plenty of books around the house and are running out of shelving ideas, you need to try this!
What you need:
- Bricks (I used two but you can create as many as you want!)
-Paint and brush
-Markers
To start of you need your bricks. Now I might of kind of nicked mine from my dad's shed:) But you can also buy them in any garden centre! We are crafting here not thieving;)
Next off you need to thoroughly clean the bricks and get any mud of them. Let them dry if needed.
Next you can paint. I chose colours I had lying around the house that I used for other projects. Recycling!
Now because you are painting bricks it may take longer for the paint to dry than on any other surface.
To be sure I gave mine three days to dry properly in a warm area.
Next on the list is painting or drawing the letters onto the bricks. Use favourite book titles to give them a personal touch.
If you have great handwriting you could just freehand the letters on. Because I do not have nice handwriting I chose to print the titles and cut them out so as to use that as a stencil.
Add any drawings and other personal touches you want. You don't have to re-create the book in exact detail, you can make them however you want them to be:)
It is such a simple DIY and after making them I am definitely going to create some more for the living room and the bedroom! I have so many favourite books to choose from so it won't be hard getting inspired.
If you want to you could even leave out the booktitles and add your favourite quotes from the book. Anything goes!Happy DIY'ing and thanks for letting me share!
Xox Elena
