First lot of pics for the photo meme

[alwaysjbj]

velvetwhip asked for a photo of my bookcase...

It's an 8ft x 6ft hardwood (don't ask me to remember exactly what type of hardwood lol) bookcase that my lovely husband made for me. It's currently in a state of disarray and sorting it out is actually on my to do list now that school has started back. It wasn't easy to photograph as the 'room' it is in is actually just the foyer and is too small for me to get back far enough to fit the whole thing in, so I took a few shots from different angles.



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Comments

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Ooh - now I have bookshelf envy...

[alwaysjbj.livejournal.com]

It's gorgeous, isn't it? Of course it only took his highness about 5 or 6 years from when he said he'd make one to actually making it! I recently asked him if it's possible to put more shelf adjustment holes in because I'm slowly replacing the paperbacks with hardcovers (the Lifeline bookfest is a wonderful thing!)--he said yes, I'm waiting to see how long it takes. LOL

[appomattoxco.livejournal.com]

Me too! My are puny little things.

[alwaysjbj.livejournal.com]

I used to have three old white melamine bookcases that were falling apart--I love my bookcase (and my very clever husband).

[velvetwhip.livejournal.com]

I have deep bookshelf love right now...can your husband build one of those for me???


Gabrielle

[alwaysjbj.livejournal.com]

LOL I think by the time we factor in the airfares it would work out much cheaper to buy one from a furniture shop...also, they wouldn't take anywhere near as long to make it.

I love it, my only very small complaint with it is that he needs to add a third shelf support in the middle (at the side) of each shelf because the supports are only 10mm wide and at the very outer edges of the shelves, so if you bump the shelf it falls off the support and you end up wearing a hardwood shelf complete with books. (I found this out the hard way and it hurt!)

[monkeyscorpion.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, definite bookshelf envy. One day, when I have a house of my own, I plan on getting/building something nice like that.

[alwaysjbj.livejournal.com]

It definitely needs to be somewhere where it won't be being moved in a hurry...it is soooo heavy (and he had to take the top off to get it in the house).

[monkeyscorpion.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the apartment I lived in before I moved in here had a lovely, huge built-in shelving thing in the living room. I so wish I could've taken it with me when I moved out.

I have a picture of it too! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v708/shiggyspics/Misc/Dsc03428.jpg Though it was full as soon as I unpacked, and I've got probably 100 more books now. :)

[alwaysjbj.livejournal.com]

That's lovely...a shame you couldn't take it with you, but i guess they would have noticed it you pried it off the wall. lol

[monkeyscorpion.livejournal.com]

Yes, that would've been a problem. :)

[cindergal.livejournal.com]

You've got your own library, ladder and everything! :-)

[alwaysjbj.livejournal.com]

LOL Because of my height (or lack thereof), the library step gets more work in the kitchen than anywhere else. It was a Christmas present from Mark (hubby) in 2007.

[spikesdeb.livejournal.com]

That is a gorgeous bookcase, I love it! And the library stool. I've asked my boyfriend to build me a rack for books - I can't actually call what he'll come up with a bookcase, bless - in the front room. The dining table used to be in there but I've moved it now and it's very bare. I'd be delighted if I ended up with something even resembling yours; tell your hubby he's very talented :) And I recognise more than a few of the titles on your shelves...

[alwaysjbj.livejournal.com]

He has the day off today, so I told him people are admiring his bookcase and he's feeling rather chuffed! lol

I still have a heap of books away in boxes, and there are a lot of books on the shelves that I've never read (things like book 2 or 3 of a series that I've picked up cheap in a book sale and never found the previous books), so I need to go through and sort all the books out and give the ones I will probably never read to Lifeline.

[debris4spike]

That is an amazing use of space. Great to have hardwood for that sort of thing - you have a great husband!

[alwaysjbj.livejournal.com]

The foyer is supposed to be being a library, but mostly it is a dumping ground for anything that doesn't belong elsewhere...so tidying it up and turning it into a comfortable, useable room is my current project.

And, yeah, I do have a pretty great husband. *happy grin*

[jerusha]

That is incredible! Oh, to have a bookshelf that takes up an entire wall...

[alwaysjbj.livejournal.com]

I love it... Mark is such a sweetie (most of the time lol).

[spikereader.livejournal.com]

Oh, proper library sort of steps too. You have a very clever husband (mine can just about put together flatpack bookcases). My idea of luxury would be to have a proper library with built in shelves on all the wall and comfy chairs to relax in.

[alwaysjbj.livejournal.com]

The library step is gorgeous (it folds over to become a chair), it was a Christmas pressie a couple of years ago. Mark is very clever at making things, he just takes a while (*cough*years*cough*) to getting around to it. LOL Flatpack things I put together myself or they'd still be in their flatpacks a year later.