Redo/furniture/question

[aldersprig]

Okay!

This blog has motivated me, and I am going to, sometime probably-this-winter, redo our old dresser (a hand-me-down from when I was a kid.)

It needs new feets, need knobs (doesn't NEED those) and, I think, a two-tone effect to go with the bedroom-that-will-be.

My big issue: right now there is a bookshelf atop it. This shelf was made by Fatherman and I, but it needs to be re-re-done at this point into something more fitting. I'm thinking re-building it, with a back, into a basic bookcase the same size as the top of the dresser...

...then painting everything offwhite with darkbrown trim.

Yes, because gutting a house wasn't a big enough project.

Fun link for bonus - http://www.slashgear.com/cave-the-bookcase-with-built-in-seat-094690/ A "cave" bookcase with built in seat!

And some really funky bookcases (some, clearly, for people who do not have books the way we have books).




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Comments

[lilfluff]

Oh! Combo dresser bookshelves? Might try that if I ever get around to getting a smaller bed (I'm losing way too much floor space with the current former waterbed).

More bookshelves is a Good Thing.

[aldersprig]

That was the first bookshelf we had; back in the studio we shared together in... 99? 98? 1997. It had to fit on top of the dresser because space was limited; Dad and I made it from the shelves from the loft bed I had in college.

[clare_dragonfly]

The mental image of a cave bookshelf was cool, but the real thing just looks like a waste of bookshelf space to me! When I showed Daniel that Hidden Passageways site, we discussed the (extremely wonderful) possibility of using the bookshelf version for every door in the house. Ahh... bookshelves.

Good luck with your project!

[aldersprig]

*grin* indeed. Ah, bookshelves.

(I agree, the shelf itself was sort of silly)