Since I moved into my new digs, I’ve been thinking of affordable ways to decorate my place and be DIY about it. This whole moving and decorating process has made me realize what a complete control freak I am haha.

One fun unique way to decorate is to spruce up your shelves and table tops with ‘origaming’ your old books (folding the pages)

I first learned this on Urban Rush awhile back and then saw it again at EQ3 recently.

Here’s instructions on how to achieve the above book’s effect:
1) Find a small notebook size hard-cover, preferably one that has less than 300 pages (you’ll know why in a bit)

2) Start the page folding around “1-2 chapters” in but feel free to start anywhere

3) Fold one corner of a page in until you can feel the edge align with the binding..close to a 45 degree fold. This serves as a easy guide for the rest of the folding

4) Fold up the other corner the same way and you’ll get a triangle shape

5) Keep on folding the same way until about ’1-2 chapters left’ to even it out. Don’t worry about fully creasing each page. When done, just stand / sit on the book to crease all the pages at once.

And that’s it! Have fun and experiment away! Here’s another one I did over the weekend.

Depends on difficulty of fold and thickness of book, it could take anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour to do one book (and that’s why you want to get a short novel lol). It goes by fast if you do it while watching tv :)