~ Office Bookcases ~

I may have mentioned that the home office is the husband’s domain.  I have a small desk that I keep my laptop on in there, but otherwise this is his room when he is working from home.  Part of the office is a pair of bookcases that he made for me as a Christmas gift one year {when we were in our old house}.    The bad habit of just sticking things on the shelves in here had gotten a bit out of hand.

These are mostly all my books, except for stuff on the bottom and top shelf of one bookcase.  It would be fair to say that most of the crap collectible mish mash that has accumulated on here is mine as well.  I started out by emptying the shelves and getting rid of stuff ~ either garbage/recycling, donate or to be stored.  Then I took all the paper covers off the books.

I made quite a mess with them, but it was easier for me to do them this way and get the books organized.  I liked to read and reread a lot of my books, so while they are not organized prettily by color, they are organized by author.  

This was more of a functional organizing than a design one, although I did add a few decorative items in there.

The wire baskets hold my Romantic Homes magazines and other magazines that I’ve felt were worth keeping.

No, he won’t let me paint them.  He was okay with me applying gel stain to darken them, but there are so many coats of polyurethane on there, I get tired just thinking about stripping and sanding that off. 

I felt good once I completed this {even though it took me about 2 1/2 hours}.  It may not be pretty, but it looks so much better than it did.  I actually wound up with some extra space, too, so I’m  ready for the next library book sale!

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