Musical Bookshelves
Oct. 17th, 2005 10:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellarienMy new bookshelves are arriving tomorrow.
So tonight I
Removed the assorted bric-a-brac from the top of the first small white unit in the study, and put it on the bed in the bedroom.
Removed the books from that unit and stacked them on the other side of the room.
Folded away the two folding chairs in the corner of the bedroom.
Shuffle-waltzed the unit into the corner of the bedroom by the bottom of the bed.
Lay prone on the bed, avoiding bric-a-brac, to find the slack in the extension cord that wanted to go under the unit. Found a long-forgotten hair barette down there, too.
Paused for a recuperative cup of coffee.
Removed books and bric-a-brac from second small white unit.
Waltzed second unit into bedroom and arranged it in the same corner.
Turning my attention to the window end of the bedroom, removed outsize books, photo albums, folders, and stacked papers from the big brown bookcase, moved the bookcase six inches to the left, and reloaded it.
Unloaded white bookcase in the corner (mysteries, more folders, crochet books, LOTR movie picture books, extremely miscellaneous stuff, not all of it books), turned it around to sit next to the brown one, and roughly reloaded it.
Unloaded small black bookcase, next down the row (Historical Fiction, phone books, more miscellanea), moved it a foot to the right, and threw enough stuff back into it to clear the floor.
Returned to the study, removed two CD storage units and some loose CDs from the top of the boxes my desktop came in five years ago, and moved the boxes into the bedroom -- just for now. Unloaded the last small white unit. Carried it into the bedroom and placed it into the gap under the window produced by the previous steps.
Removed bric-a-brac from the bed and stacked it on top of one of the units.
So that's it. I have nine feet of study wall awaiting nice new bookshelves (four feet of tall ones) and a file-cabinet/cupboard. And every single one of the seven assorted self-assembly bookcases I brought from Birmingham, via London, is now in the bedroom. (It's quite a big bedroom, about fifteen feet by ten, wider in parts, and my twin bed and six-foot dresser don't take up all that much of it.) One chair and the settee from the cheap undersized three-piece suite* I brought with me are in there, too. One of these days, and probably not too far in the future, I need to do some serious decluttering in there. Tomorrow, though, I get to spread out the books in the study (all SF and Fantasy, nearly 700 all told) and file some of the miscellanea.
*Note for US readers: a '3-piece suite' is, or at least used to be, the basis of a British living room; one settee -- in my case a two-seater smaller than some large US chairs -- and two armchairs, all matching.
So tonight I
Removed the assorted bric-a-brac from the top of the first small white unit in the study, and put it on the bed in the bedroom.
Removed the books from that unit and stacked them on the other side of the room.
Folded away the two folding chairs in the corner of the bedroom.
Shuffle-waltzed the unit into the corner of the bedroom by the bottom of the bed.
Lay prone on the bed, avoiding bric-a-brac, to find the slack in the extension cord that wanted to go under the unit. Found a long-forgotten hair barette down there, too.
Paused for a recuperative cup of coffee.
Removed books and bric-a-brac from second small white unit.
Waltzed second unit into bedroom and arranged it in the same corner.
Turning my attention to the window end of the bedroom, removed outsize books, photo albums, folders, and stacked papers from the big brown bookcase, moved the bookcase six inches to the left, and reloaded it.
Unloaded white bookcase in the corner (mysteries, more folders, crochet books, LOTR movie picture books, extremely miscellaneous stuff, not all of it books), turned it around to sit next to the brown one, and roughly reloaded it.
Unloaded small black bookcase, next down the row (Historical Fiction, phone books, more miscellanea), moved it a foot to the right, and threw enough stuff back into it to clear the floor.
Returned to the study, removed two CD storage units and some loose CDs from the top of the boxes my desktop came in five years ago, and moved the boxes into the bedroom -- just for now. Unloaded the last small white unit. Carried it into the bedroom and placed it into the gap under the window produced by the previous steps.
Removed bric-a-brac from the bed and stacked it on top of one of the units.
So that's it. I have nine feet of study wall awaiting nice new bookshelves (four feet of tall ones) and a file-cabinet/cupboard. And every single one of the seven assorted self-assembly bookcases I brought from Birmingham, via London, is now in the bedroom. (It's quite a big bedroom, about fifteen feet by ten, wider in parts, and my twin bed and six-foot dresser don't take up all that much of it.) One chair and the settee from the cheap undersized three-piece suite* I brought with me are in there, too. One of these days, and probably not too far in the future, I need to do some serious decluttering in there. Tomorrow, though, I get to spread out the books in the study (all SF and Fantasy, nearly 700 all told) and file some of the miscellanea.
*Note for US readers: a '3-piece suite' is, or at least used to be, the basis of a British living room; one settee -- in my case a two-seater smaller than some large US chairs -- and two armchairs, all matching.
