Making Wooden Bookends

Category Decorations

If you own or have access to a saw and drill you can make these easy wooden bookends. The supplies are listed below and you can add your own embellishments to suit your tastes.

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Making Super Easy Wooden Bookends

By Ana [135 Posts, 2,435 Comments]

May 25, 2019

With just a few pieces of wood to complete this project, you can have lovely bookends for any room at home or your office at work. This project also makes a lovely gift, that can be personalized for a child or adult. Here is how!

Total Time: 2 hrs.

Yield: 2

Making Super Easy Wooden Bookends - view of finished bookend with a pincushion in foreground

Supplies:

2 5x6 pieces of wood
2 7x6 pieces of wood
screws or nails
saw
drill
spray paint
2 wood cut outs (optional)
card stock paper (optional)

Making Super Easy Wooden Bookends - paper flowers

Making Super Easy Wooden Bookends - house shapes

Steps:

These book ends were cut from left over 6x1 wood. Cut 2 - 5 inch pieces and 2 - 7 inch pieces.

Making Super Easy Wooden Bookends- measuring lengths of wood

Making Super Easy Wooden Bookends - measuring the longer pieces and marking

Making Super Easy Wooden Bookends - cutting using a power saw

Place together using the smaller piece on the bottom, screwing or nailing together. Drill pilot holes and then assemble using screws. Optional: A countersink drill bit can be helpful in this project.

Making Super Easy Wooden Bookends - pre-drilling holes to countersink screws

Making Super Easy Wooden Bookends - screwing the pieces of the bookends together

Making Super Easy Wooden Bookends - ready to paint

Lightly sand the edges.
Spray paint. (The house shapes were added prior to painting.)
Added embellishments (optional). I used these house shapes covered with cardstock paper and paper flowers. The cardstock and the paper flowers were added after the bookends, including the house shapes, were spray painted.

Making Super Easy Wooden Book Ends - tracing house shape onto printed floral paper

Making Super Easy Wooden Bookends - house screwed to upright piece of bookend prior to painting

Making Super Easy Wooden Bookends - view of finished bookend

Ready to gift or use yourself.

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