Mural W Shape Library

I like books about design, architecture, Diy, and I have now a lot of them but they are spread in different places and since I do not see them I do not read them often.

After my chidren left home, I decided to use one of the rooms and I thought it was an opportunity to collect my books and have them available.

I decided to make a library a little original and makes best use of the available wall.

I started to draw some sketches, and chosed one project: W shape library, decided dimensions, and I defined the materials needed

I presented the project on my Web Site in French:

olivierbricole.fr

The cuts are easy thanks to the miter saw.

For the assembly, I used a new technique for me, biscuit joints. I bought a cheap biscuit jointer at Lidl.

The grooves milling is a little long to do but this allows to have solid connections because the lamella allows a shear and discrete connection. I managed to master the bicuit jointer, but you have to think and be methodical to keep the reference face.

For assembly, you have to think about the sequence, be fast enough, and have enough clamps.... In the end it went well and the links are quite clean.

Even if I have confidence in the collage, as books are heavy, I reinforced the connections with squares, or tees metal plates.

To fix the shelf on the wall, I used sheet metal corners, which I drilled to put several screws.

I have installed a corner in each box to distribute the effort on the plaster wall which is not very strong.

For the varnish, my wife is better than me and she took the job.

With some ... books...under the furniture I could have installed the library alone, but Jeremie the older son and by the way former occupant of the room helped me. 

Well, it’s fixed, and solid, I think it fits the wall quite well.

Ready to fill it.