Achievement Unlocked: Bookshelf Master!
Feb. 25th, 2011 12:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
missroseroseCongratulations! You have reached Level 2 in Flatpack Constuction!
+2 to Spatial Orientation
+1 to Tool-Using Skills
+1 to Home Decorating
+1 to Interpretation
+5 to Creative Vocabulary
Those of you who knew us in Alaska and have come to visit us since we moved down here (ahem) may have noticed something missing from our new places. Specifically, the lovely oak double-bookshelves we had in our library at home, and the book collection they held.
Admittedly, we got rid of a lot of books when we moved, and I've been attempting to keep future acquisitions mostly restricted to the digital realm. But we are book-loving people, and getting rid of "a lot" still meant that we had several boxes' worth. (Sort of the way that if you subtract an infinite amount from another infinite amount you still have an infinite amount left over.) At the house in Sierra Vista, we tried putting some of them on wall-mounted shelves, but the weight was too much and the shelves bowed pretty badly in the middle, so eventually we gave that up.
All of this means we've been without proper bookshelves for a year and a half now, and our book collection has either been taking up floor space in the closet or (more recently) been sitting in boxes in the second bedroom. However, we finally have people coming to visit us here in Bisbee next month (double ahem), and I didn't want to make them sleep in Box World. (Mattress-On-The-Floor World still doesn't quite sit right, but budgetary restrictions mean I'll just have to deal with it.) So I finally broke down and bought some inexpensive Wal-Mart laminate flat-pack bookshelves. And with a couple of evenings' worth of effort, some wood glue to fix mistakes, some interpretation skills for the instructions, and some pretty unusual profanities, I even managed to put them together.
I still miss our oak bookshelves. But these [a] finally got our books out of the boxes and off of the floor, [b] fit in our somewhat limited budget, [c] were easy to haul up our windy little driveway in a compact sedan, and [d] actually look halfway decent. So I'm not going to knock them too harshly, even if I do fully expect to replace them with something better-quality just as soon as we have the spare cash.
+2 to Spatial Orientation
+1 to Tool-Using Skills
+1 to Home Decorating
+1 to Interpretation
+5 to Creative Vocabulary
Those of you who knew us in Alaska and have come to visit us since we moved down here (ahem) may have noticed something missing from our new places. Specifically, the lovely oak double-bookshelves we had in our library at home, and the book collection they held.
Admittedly, we got rid of a lot of books when we moved, and I've been attempting to keep future acquisitions mostly restricted to the digital realm. But we are book-loving people, and getting rid of "a lot" still meant that we had several boxes' worth. (Sort of the way that if you subtract an infinite amount from another infinite amount you still have an infinite amount left over.) At the house in Sierra Vista, we tried putting some of them on wall-mounted shelves, but the weight was too much and the shelves bowed pretty badly in the middle, so eventually we gave that up.
All of this means we've been without proper bookshelves for a year and a half now, and our book collection has either been taking up floor space in the closet or (more recently) been sitting in boxes in the second bedroom. However, we finally have people coming to visit us here in Bisbee next month (double ahem), and I didn't want to make them sleep in Box World. (Mattress-On-The-Floor World still doesn't quite sit right, but budgetary restrictions mean I'll just have to deal with it.) So I finally broke down and bought some inexpensive Wal-Mart laminate flat-pack bookshelves. And with a couple of evenings' worth of effort, some wood glue to fix mistakes, some interpretation skills for the instructions, and some pretty unusual profanities, I even managed to put them together.
I still miss our oak bookshelves. But these [a] finally got our books out of the boxes and off of the floor, [b] fit in our somewhat limited budget, [c] were easy to haul up our windy little driveway in a compact sedan, and [d] actually look halfway decent. So I'm not going to knock them too harshly, even if I do fully expect to replace them with something better-quality just as soon as we have the spare cash.
