Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 12:53:24 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
From: Candy Madigan <candymadigan at mindspring.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Book shelves and cases
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

At 09:37 AM 10/21/2005, you wrote:
> > candymadigan at mindspring.com 10/20/2005 5:57:35 PM >>>
> >At 03:17 PM 10/20/2005, you wrote:
> >>--- Madeleine Yeh <myeh at wap.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> >    What is everyone's ideal book storage solution -- not
> >> > whats practical like block and boards -- but what they
> >> > would like if they had money and space and time?
> >>
> >>I would go to Hardwood Artisans in Chantilly, VA (three
> >>other locations in Rockville, Alexandria, and Woodbridge)
> >>and have them build some cherry or mahogany bookcases.
> >>
> >>http://www.hardwoodartisans.com/hobc_2.html
> >
> >Amen.  I bought my daughter's loft bed there back before she was
> >too tall
> >to sleep in it (we need higher ceilings)
>
>Or lower floors.... <g>
>
>Or you could build a crooked house... ghod know how many books you
>could fit in there....

Actually, I am planning on raising the ceiling in Kindra's room so that she
can use her bed again.  It'll (ghod knows when) slope with the roof up to
the center point, and I'll put a sturdy ledge on top of her closet with a
row of electrical plugs at the back so that fun stuff like stereo, TV, VCR,
DVD can be plugged in.  She would be able to reach them physically from the
ladder to her loft and watch the TV from there too.  Of course, by the time
I get around to it, it may be for the grandkids instead of me.  The
engineering is easy, but another thing I would add if I actually did that
would be access to the (currently unreachable by Candy) storage under the
eaves with a pull down ladder that goes into the wall above her door.

>mjw

Candy
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