Up cycling plain white bookcase - need suggestions!

[Deadbydaylight]

It's not to sell I want to keep it but I'm moving soon and I've wanted to make it look nicer for ages, but dunno what to do with it.

Any suggestions?

I always think changing the nobs/handles makes a huge difference for not much money. Look at Super Front, or Zara Home, or even Ikea do a good range

Could you post a photo?

Also, lots of people upcycle the Ikea Hemnes drawers, if you google it may give you some ideas

I'd decorate the back of the shelves.

Or you could use masking tape to paint around and then remove to reveal geometric patterns.

Haven't got a photo but this is basically what it looks like. It's got literally nothing special about it. Probably a bit bigger than that, it's about 4ft tall I would say.

Put up cycled bookcase into Pinterest, there are millions of ideas from easy to impossible!

Would putting this on it all over look bad? Maybe not the back of the shelves, could just paint them?

www.diy.com/departments/d-c-fix-pino-aurelio-woodgrain-effect-natural-self-adhesive-film-l-2m-w-680mm/1071216_BQ.prd

I think that would be difficult to put it on well, you’d have to cover the whole thing & made sure you matched up the wood pattern really well on any joins

Yeah did worry about that. Ah well. Probably just paint it and put something on the back of the shelves.

I cut loads of pictures out of magazines and decoupage-d them onto a plain white bookcase, took bloody ages mind but it looks good now!

I'd paint each shelf a different colour. Not bright colours but pastel. And perhaps put some wallpaper on the back. Well, I say that but I'd have to get someone else to do it. All the ideas but no practical skill, me.

Is it melamine? You could chalk paint it? I recently got the bug for upcycling but I do think it can be a false economy, primer/wax/decent brushes/decent paint and days of faff (inbetween waiting for coats to dry). Sometimes it would be easier to just donate to charity or buy another piece you do like; especially when you factor in that amateur upcycling quite often looks a bit crap when it's done. (Coming from a crap amateur).

If I were moving I'd wait until I were in, it might go better as it is, and it's hard to visualise things until you're actually 'in' and have decided on colour schemes etc..

I saw the programme where they wallpapered the back of each shelf, looked amazing.

dontgobaconmyheart I think it is melamine. I do worry about it looking crap if I do it, I'm not very artistic. I can see in my head what I want to do, but cant get anything to look like that.