Where I fix an old bookcase.

I had this old bookcase. Cheap. Had it for ages. Kept moving it every time I moved just in case in came in handy.  Here it is below, with all of the supplies I used.

The bookcase was so cheap and looked it. Very hand-me down college looking. But as I have now spent all of my money on furniture and moving, I'm trying to make things I already own look better, so project began.

I saw a post on pinterest where somebody put wallpaper on the back of an old bookcase to make it look better. I thought I could improve on that by using an old poster I had lying around.

I have all of these great posters from college, but most of them were put up on the wall using that sticky, tacky, gunky stuff that never really comes off and/or tears when you take the poster off of the wall. So almost all of them are too ruined to actually put up (but as I can't throw anything away, I keep putting them back into poster tubes and moving them). I thought this would be a great use for a black and white poster of Chicago that had ruined edges.

I took the back off the bookcase (which was made of cardboard. Classy, eh?) and sanded the bookcase so the paint would stick. I did 3 coats of black paint over the course of 3 days (did a coat, let it sit over night, did another coat after work, etc). Super easy to paint. Used a roller to get the paint on smooth.

On the cardboard back, I used modge podge to stick the posted on to the cardboard. One coat of modge podge on the cardboard, and another coat on top of the poster. Once everything was dry I tacked the cardboard onto the back of the bookcase.

Final look. I was going to put this bookcase back into my den and put crafting supplies on it, but it turned out so well I'm torn where to put it! It's currently hanging out in my living room with nothing on it but I'll have to do something with it soon! Next big project......repainting my dresser.