My New Bookshelves

Over Christmas vacation my husband helped one of our son's build three bookshelves for his condominium. While doing so, he also made two for me. They decided to replicate the bookshelves from a double-sized bookshelf I received from my mother. My husband and son began the construction of the first shelf until my son had to return home (he lives an hour and a half from home). I was able to help put the second shelf together on a day off, but after that my husband worked diligently by himself until he completed all five bookshelves.

My son and I are so very pleased with the results! My husband did an absolutely fantastic job and the trim work matches the original one very closely. Imagine the before photos of the books I collected at garage sales and thrift shops piled up in boxes in a corner of the basement so very unattractively. My husband was so efficient in cleaning them up while I was gone to work (so no before photos).

Here is the original double-sized bookshelf:

Lo and behold we were able to fit almost all the books from that pile onto the two shelves. Take a look at the after photos of my bookshelves that my husband made. Here is one of them:

Here are both of my bookshelves arranged with a cupboard in between:

Here is a view of the three bookshelves from the right side, looking to the left:

And here is a view of the three bookshelves from the left side, looking to the right. Doesn't that far-off corner look nice and neat:

We delivered my son's three bookshelves to his condominium and helped him set them up and fill them with his DVDs and books. They also looked great!

It is so nice to be able to go to the shelf and find the book I'm looking for instead of searching through several boxes piled on top of one another. Thank you dear hubby!


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