Love this case. A treasure for sure.My main bookcase was my dads. A four tier, roll in glass doors similar to this picture. Several other small modern bookshelves in the bedroom.
I'm very happy right now, I bought a book case!
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We have a crap ton of bookcases, including one room in the basement that is wall-to-wall, floor to ceiling. But there are seven of us, and we homeschool, so we tend to hoard books even more than your everyday rabid readers.
When I was in college, I didn't have any actual bookshelves to put my collection on. So I snagged dresser drawers out of the trash, took the handles off of them, and stacked them offset to make as much shelf space as possible. It looked kind of like this, only not so IKEA-y.
DIY – En lekfull hyllning till PRÄNT | Livet Hemma – IKEA
When I moved in with my husband, we shelled out for the cinder-blocks-and-wooden-planks. Between that and some other dumpster scores we managed for a few years. (The headboard of a discarded waterbed became book storage AND a place to set the radio and TV. The underdresser from the same waterbed is under my traditional bed as we speak, holding my husband's clothes. I bet the people who threw it away in 1993 would be surprised to learn that!)
When the kids started coming along, the cinder block shelves started to look more "toddler death trap" than "artsy-frugal" and we gave them away and started buying actual pieces of furniture meant to put books on. Sigh.
When I was in college, I didn't have any actual bookshelves to put my collection on. So I snagged dresser drawers out of the trash, took the handles off of them, and stacked them offset to make as much shelf space as possible. It looked kind of like this, only not so IKEA-y.
DIY – En lekfull hyllning till PRÄNT | Livet Hemma – IKEA
When I moved in with my husband, we shelled out for the cinder-blocks-and-wooden-planks. Between that and some other dumpster scores we managed for a few years. (The headboard of a discarded waterbed became book storage AND a place to set the radio and TV. The underdresser from the same waterbed is under my traditional bed as we speak, holding my husband's clothes. I bet the people who threw it away in 1993 would be surprised to learn that!)
When the kids started coming along, the cinder block shelves started to look more "toddler death trap" than "artsy-frugal" and we gave them away and started buying actual pieces of furniture meant to put books on. Sigh.
I'd be embarrassed--lol. I have a hodgepodge of bookshelves in every room except the upstairs bathroom (downstairs bathroom even has a ton of books) and the laundry room. And books stacked on most horizontal surfaces. And beside my bed. And under the bed--hahaha! I should at least attempt to match bookshelves, but it never seems to happen. Someday I'll have my office, and I want floor to ceiling cases in there.
We've got built-in bookcases in two bedrooms and the living room and there's books on these shelves in the front porch, over the windows there...old sliding glass door panels...seemed too good to toss and they've held their seal now for 20+ years, this over the number of years they performed well in a house in Iowa...they've traveled far. You could probably make a pretty decent bookcase by simply going to the lumberyard and buying some 1x6 pine...some places might even cut them to length for you...couple uprights about four feet long, five if you want, about 4-5 lengths to run between them...then get some 1x2 pine to cover the face of the shelf and provide strength for the weight they must carry...get the Norm Abrams video...guy doesn't change the bit in the router, he picks up another router, bit already in place...guy must have gone through the line more than once when they were passing things out. Saw some old...or new...bookcases, pics somewhere...they had used old window sashes for doors. Had that rustic look...plus I've seen some pretty wild bookcases in various locations online...I think aliens in Area 51 made them...bored to tears with their captors. Imagine one of them, fed up with things...at first, when they took him in, he (it's the misogynist in me) was glad to provide advice and consent...but after a time, chemistry changes...and lately he's been giving bad advice, reason we're in the state we're in. Bookcase building seems a safe bet.
The Nameless
M-O-O-N - That spells Nameless
Mine is in my bedroom, at the foot of my bed - doubling up as a tv stand. I think it was only about 20 or 30 quid new. It has just become too small, everything's eventual is out (my current read) and revival is out soon.
People are probably sick of seeing mine, but here it is again.
People are probably sick of seeing mine, but here it is again.
...Jonsey that is wonderful man, nice for your books to have a place to call home-somehow seems to make the collection feel more 'real"...this is my lot, before my beloved surprised me by re-organizing them all by release date....now I have to find another one for my Koontz collection, and misc. titles that are actual books rather than the Kindle variety-coz the Kindle looks lost sitting on the bookshelf...
I'm loving all these book pictures. Peeking at other people's book cases thrills me. I know you read SK, I want to see your other shelves, too. I don't have a smart phone, so to get a photo of mine I have to get my camera, take a picture, download to my computer, upload to photobucket, and then onto here. But I'll do that after a good sleep tonight. Keep 'em coming.
Yay Jonesy on your score!
Yay Jonesy on your score!
Here is a list of the thin reading material above the big Poe book, relics of my college days (dead days drowned in beer) of being an aspiring play write.
Aristophanes Lysistrata
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The American Dream and The Zoo Story - Edward Albee
The Caucasian Chalk Circle - Bertlot Brecht
Mother Courage and Her Children- Bertolt Brecht
The ThreePenny Opera - Bertolt Brecht
An Enemy of the People - Arthur Miller
The Glass Menagerie - Tennesse Williams
Amadeus - Peter Shaffer
Sophocles The Oedipus Cycle
The Nameless
M-O-O-N - That spells Nameless
I have a few other random books in random shelves/cabinets.
Deodorant & aftershave shelves.
Random leather look shelving unit I keep my bedside lamp on.
Cd/dvd/video cabinet.
Small unit beside my main book case that I keep my guitar amp on (it's not really that grainy, that just because it's a close up) - it's not the most organized room, you can tell I'm a single male.
Thank you for indulging me The Nameless - you are very tidy and organized with your collections. I'm a bit scattered.
...with her collection too....
Whaa? Me?
We used to have wall to wall bookshelves with hundreds of books displayed. A few years ago we sold a lot of those books, kept only books that really mean something to us and downsized to one nice book cabinet. Most of my SK collection, which inludes at least one edition of every book plus multiple editions of some books, resides in boxes in a closet. I know, it doesn't sound very "fan like" but I just can't stand clutter and stuff as I get older. I guess that is why I love my Kindle so much. I still buy every SK book in its original printed form but also have it on my Kindle, which is the version I actually read. Joe Hill is the only other author I buy in hard copy form; every other book I have read in the last 5 years has been on my Kindle.
Ok - here are two, we have a couple of built ins and a closet shelf as well.
Here are mine
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I have a friend who has a wall like that in her basement, for the same reason (homeschooling). They bought Sauder bookcases from the second hand store (I think $5/ea) and lined them up to fill the space, then her husband trimmed the whole thing out with molding so it looks like built in cabinets. It's gorgeous!
My three most presentable (lol). All 5 bedrooms have their own bookcases, bathroom has a box of books, kitchen has cookbooks, entertainment center has gardening books… etc., etc. I'm a crap photographer on my crap phone camera (cry pardon--I need the Blonde Bombshell to do my photos )
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Please excuse the clutter...we probably need a larger house...or a pole barn...or something...or not.
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