Back in the bedroom
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shewhomustProgress to date: we have bought replacement curtain rod. I have wasked (and ironed - I don't know if this is peculiar, but they looked better after I'd done it) the curtains, and ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
durham_rambler has washed the windows and window frames. They might be the better for a second wash, who knows. Many books have been moved, and much dust has been hoovered up.
We could now rehang the curtains and restore the status quo. Or we could start stripping wallpaper, and do a thorough job of redecorating (this is extremely unlikely, but we could). Or something in between.
Inevitably, I'm thinking about the books: can the book storage be improved in any way? (It could scarcely be worse).
When I said that the bedroom was where the unshelved books lived, I may have been simplifying a little. There are also two bookcases in there - or rather, there were, since they have both been removed for purposes of cleaning down and hoovering behind. Ignoring this temporary aberration, the smaller of those bookshelves cowers in the bay window, behind the book mountain, and contains unread books (untilcellio pointed out the contradiction, I thought of these as unshelved; they are ranged, then, on its unshelves); the larger is painted white, stands to the left of the window and contains a mixture of unread books, durham_rambler's books, and random other books.
I'd like not to block the window again, if it can be helped, and I think it can, at least to the extent of not replacing the bookcase in front of it - it should just fit along the wall to the right of the window, if I move everything that is currently piled up there: the books, the piles of newspaper, the - goodness, there's a sewing machine down there. This will also give me access to the wardrobe, but to tell the truth I'm a little nervous about that. (Let's just say I doubt that opening those doors will make any empty space available).
The next question is, which books go on those shelves? We could replace those which were there before, which is certainly the easiest option. Or we could (un)shelve some of the unread books, and find another home for the minority of the books from the white bookcase which have been read. We could declare one or other set of shelves the home fordurham_rambler's unread purchases: these aren't as numerous as mine, and I'm reluctant to throw them into the general stash because I work on the principle that if I dip into the pile, I may have trouble finding any one specific book, but there'll always be something I want to read; this wouldn't work for durham_rambler, so his purchases are scattered even more randomly around the house. Or we could convert them to a particular category of book - move the biographies out from the bottom shelf in the spare bedroom, say, and make more room for random fiction.
Decisions, decisions...
durham_rambler has washed the windows and window frames. They might be the better for a second wash, who knows. Many books have been moved, and much dust has been hoovered up.We could now rehang the curtains and restore the status quo. Or we could start stripping wallpaper, and do a thorough job of redecorating (this is extremely unlikely, but we could). Or something in between.
Inevitably, I'm thinking about the books: can the book storage be improved in any way? (It could scarcely be worse).
When I said that the bedroom was where the unshelved books lived, I may have been simplifying a little. There are also two bookcases in there - or rather, there were, since they have both been removed for purposes of cleaning down and hoovering behind. Ignoring this temporary aberration, the smaller of those bookshelves cowers in the bay window, behind the book mountain, and contains unread books (until
cellio pointed out the contradiction, I thought of these as unshelved; they are ranged, then, on its unshelves); the larger is painted white, stands to the left of the window and contains a mixture of unread books, durham_rambler's books, and random other books.I'd like not to block the window again, if it can be helped, and I think it can, at least to the extent of not replacing the bookcase in front of it - it should just fit along the wall to the right of the window, if I move everything that is currently piled up there: the books, the piles of newspaper, the - goodness, there's a sewing machine down there. This will also give me access to the wardrobe, but to tell the truth I'm a little nervous about that. (Let's just say I doubt that opening those doors will make any empty space available).
The next question is, which books go on those shelves? We could replace those which were there before, which is certainly the easiest option. Or we could (un)shelve some of the unread books, and find another home for the minority of the books from the white bookcase which have been read. We could declare one or other set of shelves the home for
durham_rambler's unread purchases: these aren't as numerous as mine, and I'm reluctant to throw them into the general stash because I work on the principle that if I dip into the pile, I may have trouble finding any one specific book, but there'll always be something I want to read; this wouldn't work for durham_rambler, so his purchases are scattered even more randomly around the house. Or we could convert them to a particular category of book - move the biographies out from the bottom shelf in the spare bedroom, say, and make more room for random fiction.Decisions, decisions...
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Date: 2011-02-18 10:10 pm (UTC)But it sounds like your staging shelves aren't up to the task any more. :-) Would using the tops of bookcases, or (say) one shelf per bookcase dedicated to this purpose, help? Or do you want all the unread books together in one place?
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