After spending three days in bed with a super cold, Tim and I got serioudly bored of doing absolutely nothing in front of the telly. So we, or Tim rather, started a major project - doing something about 'the book situation'.
Both of us have many, many books, and together, well, it's a fairly impressive collection. (I, admittedly, owning more fictional literature, Tim having more on the ancient Greeks and Romans.) Problem, of course, being storage. (And let's not get into how to organize them - my books, his books, mutual books? Who uses one more? By theme? By size? By author?) We only have three bookcases. One being our own (which works partly as a glass cabinet for fancy chrystal glasses), the other two are the cheapest piece of crap imaginable - a basic wooden structure with no back and no sides. They are in fact so unstable that Tim has had to use his belt to tie them together, in order for them not to fall over. Additionally, we have a damp problem in that room, so nothing is allowed to touch the walls!
As we have started to acquire more and more - gifts, purchases, extra copies of our publications, the situation has become quite chaotic, to say the least. Come new solution! We have now moved a small half hight bookcase from the bedroom to a previously unused corner of the living room. (Where we had the Christmas tree last year, and which has until now been used to dump mostly crap in, since we shut off the door in that corner of the room.) It actually created quite a little nice reading corner (minus good reading lamp), and looks quite nice. We are still double stacking all of our books, but at least we're down to only one pile of the floor, rather than piles everywhere. The only problem now, is what to do with the clothes that used to be kept in that bookcase? We have basically moved the issue of storage from one type of object to another - we now store our clothes in piles on the bedroom floor. I fear we might not make it to an IKEA any time soon...
