new bookshelves!

by paul, on 08.13.2007

my parents built us these beautiful bookshelves (which sarah designed) for our apartment. we had a dividing wall between the bed and the living area, but we also had a ton of books in boxes and stacked on windowsills, so we knocked out the wall and put in these bookcases. one of the great things about them is they are 6 boxes that can be stacked in any configuration, so we'll be able to use them no matter where we live. it's really awesome having all our books out and accessible again, we both have "to be read" shelves so I'll post the contents of mine pretty soon. the stuff my dad can do with wood is just phenomonal, he can build anything. so far he has built us a hallway cabinet, desks, bookcases, a cd rack (with a very cool infinity inlay) and when I was little he built me a desk. it's a colonial desk and fit together perfectly solid before it was ever glued, as the entire thing was dovetailed together. I later found out he wanted to use only the tools they would have had available in the time period the desk was from, so he cut every single dovetail by hand. one of my earlier memories is him showing me a pile of wood and telling me it would be a desk someday, and me not believing him. boy was I wrong. thanks, dad.