My DIY Library is Complete! ~ Building the Dream Library, Vol. 3

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A brief summary of the last five months of my life building my dream fantasy library room! Featuring a squirrelly pattern, the most intense Ikea hack ever, and a magical cabinet...
For the full library playlist: • Building My Dream Library
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. Intro 0:00
II. Finishing the Ceiling 3:08
III. The Beam 4:00
IV. The Floor 8:53
V. Moving In, Bookshelves, Finishing Bits 11:36
VI. The Reveal! 20:31
VII. Final Thoughts 21:43
Some songs are old Edison record recordings.
All other music by Daniel Hines.
danielhines.co.uk
CONTACT JESS
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Want to get in touch?: jess.trainedsquirrels@gmail.com
SUPPORT JESS
If you like my content and would like to support me with a small tip, please use this link (1% of all donations are being donated to help the environment): ko-fi.com/squirrellynerdyjess
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20 июл 2024

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@SquirrellyNerdyJess 10 месяцев назад

If you like my content and would like to support me with a small tip, please use this link (1% of all donations are being donated to help the environment): ko-fi.com/squirrellynerdyjess

@flora-dz4ii 3 года назад

OMG! IT LOOKS ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE!!! I don’t think I’d ever be able to leave that room if that was my library :,)

@tazkianafis2293 3 года назад

THIS IS THE MOST DEDICATED AND CREATIVE LIBRARY MAKING PROJECT OMGGG LOVE ITTTT

@elizabeths4371 2 года назад

I love how you've extended the bookshelves up to the cornice moulding but especially the way you've painted and stenciled the beam and the ceiling- really EXCEPTIONAL Work!

@wiik999 2 года назад

That looks incredible! Me and my girlfriend are in the process of looking at houses so the dream of a dedicated room for a home library might actually happen. These videos gave us alot of inspiration. Hope to see more updates in the future!

@SquirrellyNerdyJess 2 года назад

Thank you! Best wishes with your own home. I’m in the process of editing the next part of this vlog now. 🤓📚

@MegBookishRamblings 2 года назад

I love how the stenciling with traces of gold foil turned out! What a great idea to have a display cabinet that lights up! I love how your Library looks, I think it's amazing! I also enjoy the starry night theme on the ceiling and just may do something with the stars on the ceiling if I ever have a Library of my own. Congratulations on building your dream Library!

@spookygamergirl 2 года назад

I love the look of the dark, reddish-brown varnish! I’ve always thought it brought such a warmth to a library! It’s looking STUNNING!

@francescathomas3502 2 года назад

You have a gorgeous Library!!! I love love love the ceiling and the cross beams!!!

@ShubhamBhushanCC 3 года назад

This is so beautiful!!!!! I have a library of my own but this is just next level.

@1147512 3 года назад

Awww, you're welcome!! It's been fun to watch it come together!. 🙂

@SquirrellyNerdyJess 3 года назад

You’re the best!

@bradybunch84a 2 месяца назад

Yes! You did it and it is so amazing! You have the most amazing home library that I have ever seen. Good job. WOW I sure hope you don't ever have to move.

@jules4818 2 года назад

Wow this is absolutely stunning. I feel like i could read in there for DAYS at the least

@mrwood91740 3 года назад

What a beautiful space you have created! I especially love the gold leaf highlights on the ceiling and beam. Fantastic detail. Libraries are among my very favorite places. Having this one right in your home - and it’s your creation - is wonderful. Congratulations!

@melindareynolds2901 3 года назад

This is absolutely amazing and beautiful! I know how much you have wanted to create this room and to see it mostly complete is something to be happy and proud of. Love your passion for creating such a magical room!

@redhornet07 Год назад

You did a fantastic job on that library! I love the medeival/renaissance hand painted details. My wife & I are renovating/rebuilding our 100 y/o house room by room. Just one suggestion, early on I learned to have an exhaust fan in the window whenever sanding/taking down plaster. If you have to do lots of sanding again, just a simple box fan in the window, blowing air to the outside, makes a HUGE difference in reducing dust in the room. Keep up the great work!

@SquirrellyNerdyJess Год назад

Thank you! I’ll keep that in mind for sure. Live and learn.

@rachelanderson9336 3 года назад

This is so inspirational! ☺️ I love your amazing eye for creating such an imaginative and fun space! I can’t wait to see how the books are organized! How did you not get overwhelmed by all the projects? What was the most useful source for your home renovations? When you see a space to renovate or decorate, how do you start deciding how to organize? And random question, what has been your favorite book to restore AND/OR what is a book that you are most excited to restore?

@mirib5007 9 месяцев назад

Looks fab! Truly a Herculean effort! I got tennis elbow from stenciling a 14” weeping Willow under my dining room ceiling mounding, on a ladder. It was beautiful.

@sillybeeful 2 года назад

So worth it!! Your library is beautiful and perfectly individual 📚 📕 🌟 🐿 and you’ve learnt loads 👍🏼 ironically I found your video while planning my own (very small) library refurbishment, while recovering from covid…. Congratulations and thanks for lots of inspiration xx

@desourcelatte6525 Год назад

This Librarian (yeah, I am one really) LOVES what you did!!!

@SquirrellyNerdyJess Год назад

Much respect! ❤️

@rukiakuchikichan 2 года назад

Especially love the Harry Potter memorabilia. I've been looking for inspiration on how to my very small (but eventually growing) collection and got some ideas. Thanks!

@NotSObored188 3 года назад

Looks beautiful love the ceiling and your furniture color and especially your little fixer upper book station. Great unique library 👏💕

@bmschmitzer 2 года назад

Wow! What an amazing room you have created! Congratulations on completing such a beautiful project. You did a wonderful job, and the patience you displayed was mind-blowing. One day, when I get around to dedicating an area for a library in my own home, I will certainly use what you've done as an inspiration.

@Amarantis Год назад

Wow so cozy and beautiful! great job!

@carolwhite6979 Год назад

that was delightful! Great space! Magical!

@victoriavox 3 года назад

Stunning Jess! Your hard work and dedication has certainly paid off! Thank you for sharing your journey with us! 😍

@workshed556 2 месяца назад

Amazing work. I really like the shelves now, but I love the beam. So cool.

@Charlotte-ud2to 2 года назад

Amazing how much work you put into your library. It turned out so good! I can see that cupboard being turned in a very cosy reading nook.. 😉.

@okayheykae 2 года назад

I'm currently fantasizing about having a house and a library and this is so inspiring! I love the ceiling, and I was worried that my Billy bookshelves would never look like "proper" library bookshelves but now I know they can! 📚✨

@eastratton08 3 года назад

It turned out so magical and pretty ! I'm obsessed 💕

@pwmel1 2 года назад

This is an amazing library! You did an AWESOME job! I love everything about it. Special love for all the Houdini posters and merch. Very very very nice! Congratulations!

@milavorster3704 3 года назад

Love the result was waiting for this for a long time!

@lakelili Год назад

Really lovely job! Particularly in love with the beam. Bright blessings for the New Year!

@rozchristopherson648 Год назад

Stunning. I absolutely love it. I turned my living room into a library/study. Charles Dickens' study was my inspiration. I also have a beautiful brick fireplace in the room which gives it special ambience. I chose to add several large china cabinets for books and a few curio cabinets to display other things. I have my computer and desk setup in the room as well. I then turned my dining room into a living room, my kitchen into a dining room, and my great room into a large "free-standing" kitchen. Lots of moving furniture around and I had to have the kitchen cabinets taken out. But I had to have a study/library. Everyone should, I'm sure you'll agree. Great job. 😃👍

@BigioBio 3 года назад

Congratulation on this awesome albeit tiring project. It looks amazing. Looking forward to future videos.

@IncoherentSanity Год назад

Your library is so amazing, beautiful, and all around unique! I absolutely, freaking adore it!

@jimzecca3961 2 года назад

Great job with the room. I have a bedroom in our new place that will become an office/library space and I hope I can do as good of a job as you did here to make it a comfortable and inspiring place to work and relax/read.

@carriehooper32 2 года назад

I love what you did to the ceiling in your library so much! Beautiful work!

@SquirrellyNerdyJess 2 года назад

Thank you!

@cjay233 Год назад

Your library is awesome!!!! Appreciate too your final thoughts about teaching yourself things and the hard learning curve. I have tons of ideas but when I try them, they don't work or it is harder than I thought and I give up or don't even try. You have given me the encouragement to try. Thank you.

@amygray1451 Год назад

Absolutely beautiful!

@kimbowers3607 Год назад

Beautiful job!

@Ukegirl831 3 года назад

I absolutely love this! It is magical. I am so impressed. I also love this video.

@sarah.sparkles Год назад

Utterly, utterly magical!!! I adore it!!

@reavervolfeed5454 Год назад

you see just how much love you put into making such a amazing and interesting place. in my opinion more than a library, a dreamroom

@choocli Год назад

this is one of my favorite videos on this site!!! So wonderful, loved seeing the whole process! the sheer dedication and creativity you have is so inspiring

@madnessintomagic 9 месяцев назад

Adorable! Well done.

@einfach__pia2110 Год назад

it looks amazing 🥰 I always look for people renovating their spaces to fit their aesthetic and it’s the first time I saw a library being created

@suhil4005 2 года назад

This is so lovely 💜 great job

@KasSommers Год назад

Great job, Jess. I always wanted a Henry Higgins library and built one when I did up my last house. Sadly I didn't do the research and got the colours all wrong and didn't really have a good plan at the beginning. So though I had the floor-to-ceiling bookcases, they were still stuffed too full of books and the couch was too big and it was never really satisfying. Yours is gorgeous and you did everything right.

@Nortic111 4 месяца назад

Oooh, very cozy!

@amhbrannan Год назад

Bravo!!!! Inspiring and stunning!!!!

@DeniselandiaYT 2 года назад

LOVE IT!!! One day I will have a room of my own and I will do the same thing. Beautiful work, Squirrel.

@SeanLamb-I-Am Год назад

I had been looking up videos about making built-in shelving units because I'm working on a design for my "office" in our home. So many of what I saw were by men who had an extreme number of big tools more than me, and their videos were just oozing with the wrong kind of masculine vibe for me to really learn from. Then RU-vid showed me this video. ... And the skies parted and the angels sang .... (especially when I saw the bit about the Sky Buckets at Disneyland; I grew up making a grand circle tour of the "Mountain" coasters and used the Sky Buckets to move from one end to the other frequently). Now to go back through the rest of your videos to see what I missed so far... Thank you!

@SquirrellyNerdyJess Год назад

Glad to provide some inspiration. One thing I would say in hindsight is don’t try to varnish these bookcases the way I did. If you want to change the colour, perhaps painting would work, but don’t follow my lead in that one particular area! Best of luck!

@penirperson4927 Год назад

The step stool!!!😍 I love the whole room!!

@FrancescoPaggiaro 10 месяцев назад

Love It ❤ love the library, the house, the editing, the style.

@janeenreding5767 Год назад

Inspiring! Thank you for sharing this!

@edwinperr6008 2 года назад

Well done!!!

@nancysadewater964 Год назад

The Library is amazing! You did a wonderful job!

@Bella-gj6wc Год назад

It’s beautiful!!

@jamieb2289 10 месяцев назад

I am speechless. Speechless! This is GORGEOUS!

@jessieanddavid Год назад

What an amazing job! I think the ceiling snd beams sre my favorite 😍

@ellesse3862 Год назад

What a lovely room, reminds me of an old book shop I'd visit, it had deep rich green walls and dark, almost black, wood bookcases.

@TheSorcerySchoolhouse 11 месяцев назад

Great job! That took lots of patience . I collect Magic books and this has inspired me to update my library. Thank you and keep posting this great content .

@SquirrellyNerdyJess 11 месяцев назад

Thank you! I have a small collection of magic books as well!

@iluvzevon 2 года назад

Absolutely stunning! It's absolutely gorgeous. I did some stenciling in my hallway and it just takes sooooo long! Kudos to you, it turned out amazing xx

@sweetscraps56 7 месяцев назад

WOW! YOU DID IT! And it’s amazing. Thumbs up!

@JenniferBtheGroove Год назад

You did Great! Congratulations!

@oliviap.8750 3 года назад

I'm glad you are back

@terriespann4800 Год назад

Beautiful!!!

@hellentatsios7888 10 месяцев назад

fantastic job

@juliahelland6488 Год назад

Kindred spirits! I have always wanted to create a library and now I will! 💯❣️

@outgoingautismhowtoovercom8512 Год назад

Love it especially the ceiling. I’m a 25 year Carpenter hardhat off to you, Madame.

@mickscrimshaw1073 2 года назад

Great inspiration! Luckily I have a library going back to when I used to earn a few quid a few years ago but my two daughters are both going to want to pinch some of your ideas (especially the Harry Potter cabinet) and hopefully end up with something close to what you’ve achieved. I really enjoyed sharing your journey. I’m off a read a book now.

@NurseBooksAndTravel Год назад

This is amazzzzzing! You did an awesome job.❤

@carmenwalsh8114 Год назад

It’s looks amazing I love it!!!!

@brinagotsued 2 года назад

This is amazing, you did a fantastic job!

@SquirrellyNerdyJess 2 года назад

That’s very kind. Thank you!

@BallerineMimi 2 года назад

Incredible! Just binged this series and saving it for my own home inspiration one day ♡ also the fact your bookish content includes bookrepairing has me hitting subscribe! Im looking forward to your new videos (but right now i gots to watch all your previous videos) ♡

@SquirrellyNerdyJess 2 года назад

Thank you! New video (something a little different) is posting tomorrow, and then I’ll have two new repair videos to follow. 🤓

@Randis-vv5hg Год назад

Absolutely magical.

@raghavendranayak9798 2 года назад

I haven't come across anyone being so so real and so so simple and extremely polite on internet the best part of the video was the moment you were proud of the outcome and I wish you all the very best, I'll always pray for you, stay happy forever ❤ Love from India ❤ 🇮🇳

@SquirrellyNerdyJess 2 года назад

How incredibly kind of you! Thank you for watching.

@TonyRobetson 2 года назад

what an amazing library! i love the idea of a starry sky ceiling and you executed it well, along with all the decorations! think the only thing i'd add is a bookshelf door or hidden compartment. always great to find people with similar bookish dreams :)

@SquirrellyNerdyJess 2 года назад

Thank you! Didn’t have the room for the bookshelf door in this one, but my husband has promised when we eventually extend the house, I will get my secret passageway! 😉

@danadavis1754 2 года назад

I love the ceiling, it really feels like magical

@mendyviola 7 месяцев назад

Love that your sponsor is a friend. Not having a corporate sponsor is so rare. ❤️ Helen. Future self, sorry that y’all had to self-isolate. I was lucky and never got it, even though my husband did.

@kaitlynrice6626 2 года назад

This is THE most beautiful in home library I have ever seen!!!!!

@richmoca Год назад

Looks great

@ranakonswa2169 2 года назад

More ideas for your lovely channel ❤️ : 1- DIY vintage/aesthetic bookmarks . 2- how to deal with read blocks . 3- poorly written novels not to waste our time/money on . 4- setting up/ upgrading your reading corner . 5- websites selling books and best online stores / tips to get cheaper books .

@SquirrellyNerdyJess 2 года назад

Thank you for the ideas! A couple of those are already in the works. 😉

@ranakonswa2169 2 года назад

@@SquirrellyNerdyJess so excited ,good luck queen

@thegirlwiththecontroller1164 Год назад

It all looks so good! I love how you detailed the beam. I am totally going to steal your idea, because we have one in the center in our manufactured home that is ugly, but now I can spruce it up!

@SquirrellyNerdyJess Год назад

Do! That personal touch just adds so much to a room!

@zoevemoon Год назад

You, squirrel, are insane... you are also my inspiration

@sandeeppuliyanazhath 2 года назад

Your library looks so gorgeous..same as you!!❤️❤️

@nilianny 2 года назад

Spectacular!💛

@angelaferreira5177 2 года назад

Very pretty love it!

@laurensouthgate2458 2 года назад

Very inspiring love it.

@lenadesouza 3 года назад

Your library is so incredibly beautiful. It inspired me a lot and I’m so happy for you. And… are you a librarian? You sure look like someone who would be a librarian at Hogwarts.

@jessicapinto3817 Год назад

I love it, it's so cute! 💚💚🤩🤩

@damogranheart5521 Год назад

A warm, welcoming library! Love it! And my black cat is named Houdini! I was told that this name did Not Bode Well. My son, the seer!

@sandraford4235 2 года назад

Beautiful

@chanellyon6671 Год назад

Buying the bookshelves could be argued as sponsorship. ;-) she definitely deserves a shout out.

@aklilusium4341 8 месяцев назад

great job well done , Beautiful

@undergroundmusicians2983 2 года назад

My husband and I just bought our first home and this video gave me such inspiration! Instead of the Billy bookcases, we are going to build our own built-in shelves using pine. Then I'll either stain or paint them (haven't decided yet!). But just wanted to say I loved your video and channel!!! Beautiful work and craftsmanship. I am so impressed with the beam work and ornate detail. So awesome!

@SquirrellyNerdyJess 2 года назад

If I did it again, I’d build my own shelves rather than do the Billys. It was actually the other option I was weighing up, but I would have needed my husband’s help and he had too busy a schedule at the time. Maybe I’ll upgrade one day! Thank you for watching and for the kind comment. 🤓

@AnnieWarbux Год назад

💫Bravo!!! 💫Well Done!!! Love it!!! 🤓

@antsquirly7654 Год назад

And then one day, my dear, you find yourself nearing the end of your road, Surrounded by all the treasures of your life you wonder, what's next. How serendipitous discovering you, Age has caused me to give up books, now it's a Kindle. (Font size and ease of reading) - It's good/fun being Squirly.

@Zenne-CrazyGeekCrafter 3 года назад

Very inspiring. I started a similar project in the beginning of the year. I have to remove the wallpaper, refinish the walls and then comes the painting and building. I have taken en break over the summer, but I still hope to finish my library in 2021. Even with a maximum daily work time of two hours that should be doable. I have been thinking about doing something similar to your ceiling choice in my bedroom, so it is great to know that foiling is easier then painting. I will probably make a different kind of stencil a plastik one which can be used to paint through.

@SquirrellyNerdyJess 3 года назад

A plastic stencil would definitely be better! I was just working with what I had as much as possible, and I had a lot of cardboard. 😊

@Zenne-CrazyGeekCrafter 3 года назад

@@SquirrellyNerdyJess I have branched out from reading and watching to making in the last 5ish years. I learned a few practical things and have some great tool at hand now.