Add Fluted Doors To Your IKEA Billy Bookcase With This Hardware Store Find

For this IKEA BILLY bookcase DIY, pick up some pole wrap the next time you're at the hardware store. As @cityfarmhouse on TikTok demonstrated, simple pole wrap can turn a basic bookcase into something much more chic. The design hack? Using pole wrap to add DIY fluted doors to a BILLY bookcase.

What exactly is pole wrap? It's a decorative sheet of pliable, wooden slats originally developed to wrap around basement poles to make them more attractive. First introduced by Pole-Wrap, Inc., in 1994, other brands today make similar products, but it's the Pole-Wrap original(s) you're most likely to find at your local hardware store. Nowadays, crafty folks are taking pole wrap and repurposing it into all sorts of DIY projects around the home, from a new kitchen backslash to a cool, new accent wall. Here, we'll take a look at how TikToker @cityfarmhouse used pole wrap to give an IKEA signature BILLY bookcase a brand-new look.

Before you get started attempting your own version of @cityfarmhouse's BILLY bookcase DIY, you'll want to figure out which kind of IKEA piece you have or which one you want to pick up if you're going to buy something new. You'll see that @cityfarmhouse's bookcase already has glass doors, which she paints arches into before adding pole wrap to the bottom to create the fluted effect.

You can do the same if your BILLY bookcase already has doors, too, but this project will also work if you're starting with a standard BILLY bookcase, which comes with fully open shelves. In this case, you'll need to take a few extra steps. You can either buy and add doors from IKEA (for example, this BILLY/OXBERG door in white), or you could create your own frame, which you can then affix the pole wrap to before attaching it to your BILLY bookcase with hinges.

As for using pole wrap to DIY fluted doors, it's really just a matter of cutting the pole wrap to size and then adhering it to the bookcase's doors and/or frames. In @cityfarmhouse's hack, she also adds leather pulls to match the baskets stored on top of the bookcase. This just tells us that you can take this DIY in any direction you like, but it all starts with a roll of pole wrap.