Secret door
How to create a faux bookshelf over a door.
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I forgot to take a photo of putting up the "trim" piece that acts like a "shelf" between the rows of books. It was a spindle from an old crib that I've had in my garage. I used some books with their pages in order to fool the eye into thinking all of them have pages. The brown book on the left side is bolted to my door handle. You push down on the right side of the book and the door opens easily. There was some planning and thought into how that worked, and I am pleased to say it functions without rubbing on any of the other books.
I purchased books for a very low price, and then carefully removed the pages and kept the spine and 1/2" of the back and front cover. I filled the empty space with either fiberfill 1 1/2" cushion or sometimes I used stryofoam, I then hot glued that to the book spline and then hot glued the books together and finally glued the fiberfill to the black posterboard.
