bookshelves

Since we moved to this house almost 6.5 yrs ago, most of my books have lived in boxes while they patiently awaited the arrival of bookshelves in my office. It was one of those projects where I had grand plans but no bookshelves were being built.

Finally, while off work recently, I broke down and decided I should just forget building them and buy some instead. I spent much a day wandering around town from store to store trying to find some that I liked and that would fit. You'd be surprised at the lack of imagination there is in the bookshelf industry!

I found some cool Asian looking ones that I liked but they would have taken a week to arrive and were expensive enough that I would have had to spread out the purchases over more time than I wanted.

But it was Kendre that came up with the winning idea. There were some ok shelves at Target that were almost the right size but they were 3" too tall to fit along the short walls of my office. She suggested cutting the legs off so they would fit. So that's what I did. They were cheaper so I was able to get four shelves all at once - maybe enough to hold all my books...

Now I've been going through my book boxes and sorting the books. It's a slow process since they all need a good vacuuming to be spider-free and also because it's been a long time since I've seen many of them!



Obviously, the process continues... I have more boxes in the garage to go through as well. I had forgotten how much I liked having my books around - I'm really going to enjoy having them back! I'll post better pics once I get them done.