Longing for more shelf space? Find out how to turn a row of IKEA BILLY Bookcases into floor-to-ceiling, built-in shelves that ...

2. Make your library of dreams Turning BILLY bookcases into a built in-looking library along an entire wall is one of the most popular ways to hack this particular piece of IKEA furniture.

BILLY Bookcase IKEA $69 Buy Now What’s changed in the new BILLY bookcases? “We are reducing plastic consumption from the product by changing the edge band to paper foil,” says Paulann ...

Tim Harford tells the extraordinary story of Ikea’s Billy bookcase in this extract from his new book Fifty Things That Made The Modern Economy. *** Denver Thornton hates the Billy bookcase.