What I am admiring today online:
The Wall of Awesome
http://www.thingamababy.com/baby/2009/03/garagesale.html
I know what it is like to own 3000 books. I posted pictures of some of my bookshelves here:
http://parentingfreedom.com/2008/06/23/the-organized-homeschool/
When people mention they have 4000 or 5000 or more books, I am very curious about how they store them? Share pictures please! Karen??
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We used to have a hodgepodge of bookshelves everywhere. . . even in the bathroom and laundry room. Then we downsized (to go to Ukraine). Got rid of all the shelves, sold a lot of the books. . . Kept a few boxes of books. And. . . gradually. . . have rebuilt our library. When we returned to the States we “splurged” on uniform bookshelves. Well. . . we only bought one or two at a time, but did it over a couple of years. So the living room is wall-to-wall shelves with the couch and desks in front of them. (Imagine the shelves like wallpaper). We have some in the kitchen/dining room. And we do have boxes in the garage, too. We have some books that we don’t need often in the garage, and Hubby has a system of cycling the kids books in and out of the garage for them, so they always have fresh books.
And, we found that it was easier and cheaper to buy books for the kids at the Goodwill Bookstore than it was to be library patrons. We are BAD library patrons. We are self-banned, though I think if we didn’t do it, the librarian would!
Pics one day. . . *L*
Carol, I am waiting for Clay to reload my Picassa into the computer. He has been cleaning it up, whatever that means in husbandese, and the pictures seem to be the last on the list to reinstall. But I will post pictures when he makes them available. When we moved into this house 25 years ago, we began our library project and he designed a simple pattern you could add on to over time. We began on one wall of a room and now all 4 walls have shelves, including over the doors and windows. Of course that wasn’t enough so I now have ceiling to floor shelves along one wall in the kitchen and most recently in the upstairs bathroom, though those have no books (yet!) My craft room, formerly Will’s room, has shelves from the ceiling to half way down the wall in the corner going onto two walls. I put my sewing table under it and moved all my craft/gardening/home dec. books to that room, which freed up more room downstairs. The living room is the last frontier, though my husband is reluctant to make something permanent in there. I already have two ceiling to floor bookcases that are free standing but envision two walls with shelves that could also house the tv behind some sort of doors. When I put up pix on my blog, I will have him make a pdf of his design too.
TG, we are bad library patrons, too. ANd I second your Goodwill suggestion. And some of our best books have come when local libraries and school libraries get rid of books. One year a school janitor friend brought us 14 boxes of mostly non-fiction books, including about 30 old ones from the Childhood of Famous Americans series.
One more thing…my best ever book find.
Mollie made me promise to go to ALL the garage sales on Saturday morning and when I was beginning to really burn out, she promised we only had to go to one more. The sale was almost over and they were already boxing up the leftovers. There on a table was a mint condition set of the Great Books, never used. Only one volume was missing. I was stunned and asked what they wanted for them. They asked if $10.00 was too much and they offered to box them up and carry them to my car! I came home and found the missing volume on e-bay for $15.00 so that was $25.00 for the wh0le set!!!