I've been attaching tie downs to all parts of my set so none of it can sneakily move about whilst I'm shooting.
On both the chair and the bookcase I attached L shaped plates with a glue gun which I can screw down to the table. I attached a screw to each of the ladders legs so that it slots straight into the table and I can secure it from underneath.

I've finished the bookcase! All books are in, painted and I added the final touch - a dusting of talcum powder to make them look old, worn and dusty.

I painted on top of the mod roc in a single shade of brown acrylic but because of the texture it produced nice varying shades and tones:

I tested painting a strip of cardboard with goauche paints and this worked really well in terms of what I wanted the books to look like as it dries semi-shiney and has a bit of a washed out quality.
For some of the books a glued string to the cardboard and painted over this also to give a ridged cover effect.
For the rest of them, I cut out individual books, covered the edges with masking tape to disguise the ridges in the cardboard and then painted these with goauche paints. Once dried I glued lots of cut up book pages inside to give the impression of mini little books!

Getting there!

Books!

Working in a jewellery shop is pretty handy when there are a lot of unwanted boxes lying around that I can recycle into bookshelves for my film!

I then covered these boxes in mod roc to harden the whole thing.

After my tutorial on the set it was suggested that I try making books out of cardboard and once painted cover them in a layer of PVA glue so that it gives them a leathery shine effect. I also thought I could add bits of string running along a few of them to give the effect of the ridges on old leather bound books.

This is what I intend for the bookshelf to look like.