Before & After: Built-In Bookshelves Get a DIY Hack & Style Upgrade

The living room when we moved in. (Image credit: Ashley Poskin) We absolutely love our apartment; it has so much character and light, but when we moved in, one thing in particular I knew I wanted to upgrade were the bookshelves. At first glance they seemed fine, but once we started putting our books on them we realized that the positioning of the shelves -- with 20" height between shelves -- was not only an inefficient use of space but just looked odd with so much extra height above the books. S...