Top Ten Tuesday: Freebie for me!

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish.

 Since Allyson is on vacation, and she is the one that does the TTT, we decided not to do it. She makes it looks so pretty all the time :)  so it would not be the same without her working on it. But since I really wanted to make a post about my yellow bookcase and this week's TTT is kind of a freebie, I am going to use this post as our blog's TTT.

My house has been a mess with only 2 bookcases, they are kind of large but still not big enough to hold the books that I have, which would be 728 of them. Yes, I counted them :P Anyway, I've been wanting to get nice bookcases, but I am not the kind of person that buys something just because they  need it. Of course, it depends of what it is, but in the case of bookcases I would much rather wait until I find something I really like and I am completely happy with. So, I was on the mission of finding something I really loved. But I searched online and looked in furniture stores, and I have not found anything that I loved, because I need to fall in love with my bookcases since they are going to be holding my babies forever right in front of me, everyday. I needed something that makes me happy.

My husband suggested to get something from Ikea, but we don't have an Ikea near our home. We could have ordered it online but I just wasn't that in love with any of them.  So I was like whatever I am going to wait until I find that bookcase that takes my breath away. Then I thought, wait a minute! I have this big china cabinet in my basement all the time that I could use to make a bookcase. So I searched on Pinterest for ideas (yes, I use Pinterest a lot to look for ideas) and since I love working on  projects like this I started to work on my bookcase. And I love it so much now! It does need a little handle for one of the drawers, but I can not find anything that fits yet.

Here are some pictures of my project.                                                              

This is a picture of my bookcases before I got to work on my project.

                                                                                  

My babies out of their nest , some waiting for mommy to finish their new home and some will stay in the same old ones.

                                                                    
                                                                                   

Now to drag this heavy  cabinet out of the basement.

                                                                                  

                                                                            

I took the doors and everything else off.

Put the primer on first.

Then painted it.

It is almost done. It is going to the other wall where the other bookcases were...

The other bookcases are all already set.

Finally here is my beautiful yellow bookcase( It was meant to be a mustard color) but I love it!
Still needs a handle for the drawer and I need to get tome led lights for inside. By the way... notice that the top shelf is only for my Outlander books! I even have a bottle of whiskey there!