Floating Books
Last week, I suggested using a rain gutter to make a bookshelf for holding books face-forward, this week the books float on the wall.
Hint: it’s not magic.
Ingredients:
- an angle bracket from the joist hanging department at the hardware store. It should be L-shaped, and each leg of the bracket is about the size of a paperback book.
- Epoxy glue
- one old book that you don’t care that much about — this will get glued to the bracket and will not be readable once in place
- Sturdy nails, strong enough to hold the weight of your books.
Tools:
- hammer
Make it:
- Flip open the back of the old book, and place one side of the angle-bracket on the end pages. Use the epoxy glue to glue the bracket to the book, and to glue to back cover to the bracket. This forms the base to stack the other books and creates the illusion that the books are floating. Let the glue dry overnight. I put some weights on the now-closed book to make sure it had good contact.
- The next day, hang the angle bracket - ensure that it is level when you hang it, or the books will slide off.
- Stack up enough books so that where the angle bracket is attached to the wall is hidden.
I think a wall full of these would make a great display of your books, kinda of a floating library.
