Ikea + Paper Source = Awesome!

Ikea furniture is great for several reasons--it's cheap, it's stylish, and it's modular. But it is also ripe for modification. We have a couple of plans for personalizing our current Ikea furniture, and Kirsten finished the first of them this weekend. This is a Billy bookcase in red, with clear glass doors. Ikea suggests lining the inside with one of their designer papers, but, to be honest, they are all pretty ugly. Instead, we picked up two rolls of designer wrapping paper from Paper Source. Ikea supplied cardboard inserts for the glass doors and plastic tabs to hold it in place. All we (meaning Kirsten) had to do was cut the paper to size and tape it to the cardboard inserts. We're both really happy with the results.