A month ago , our friend Randall and I sustain some boards from his sawmill and embark on construct a pair of bookshelves for the study in our home .
Since our move to the new homestead , we ’ve had most of our books boxed up in a loo , with lots of more the fry ’ schoolbooks pile up on the base of the study .
Randall offered to help us , and volunteered some local pine control panel from his backyard sawmill . We get those slue to size , planed and stained , and then had to end for various cause .
Yesterday , CJ and I attacked the bookshelves together , along with one of my daughters , and we receive one of the two shelf completed at long last .
Here it is before we put on the backing :
That pup is 8′ tall and 6.5′ wide . It ’s an absolute brute .
We prove fit it into the quoin , then added on the back . Here you could see the height good .
I am just over 6′ grandiloquent . This is a turgid bookcase . Heaven forbid anyone ever want to move it out of this room .
It call for a lot of cause to fetch up , but we got it done before dark . It really helps to have good help .
The bookshelf has a angle bracket on it , guarantee it to the wall , as well as shims to keep it tilted slightly backwards . When you ’re deal with a ledge this punishing , you have to be careful . We also add all the spacers between the shelves for surplus funding , as shelf will flag across longer lengths . stagger them , Mid - Century Modern panache , was just a incentive .
After end up the first bookshelf , we got most of the shaver ’ schoolbooks on it yesterday eve and part empty the water closet of books . Unfortunately , it ’s hold out to be full before we get the last boxes out .
This think we ’re going to want to build its mate , which will be exactly the same size of it , but on the other side of the window . The study is a big room with marvelous ceilings and is get going to be an excellent library .
We really do have a problem with book hoarding , though . We even have another small bookshelf we build as a stopgap , which we moved to the hall .
It ’s also full .
There is yet another bookcase in the hall with a glass front on it , and that ’s full as well . Plus my girl Daisy has two full bookcase in her way .
Whew . Maybe we just need to cover all the walls with shelves .
in conclusion , I finished reading the last volume of Gibbon’sHistory of the Decline and Fall of the papist Empiretoday . It was well - worth the investment of time .
And speaking of time , we need to build a desk for Daisy ’s seed - saving business .
It ’s been one of those engaged calendar week . And it ’s 1.5 million arcdegree outside , so indoor projects are the way to go .
