More bookshelves

[ellarien]

About half my book collection is in disarray, in semi-randomized piles on the floor or the wrong shelves, and I'm not sure I have the energy to put it all to rights this evening. The combination of wrangling books and furniture last night, then spending the day in the recliner with a heavy laptop on my knee, has not been kind to my back.

There are way too many CD-ROMS and papers around the place, and just tucking them all neatly out of sight will not really solve the problem, even if it's possible. (I wouldn't want to be on TLC's Clean Sweep, though. They always make people dispose of at least half their books.)

At least it's a distraction from my recent not very useful preoccupation with clothes.

Update, a couple of hours later: at least all the books are now off the study floor again. I still need to spread out the ones in the two big cases at the door end, and put stuff in the cupboard and file drawers, and deal with the explosion-in-a-library mess that is the bedroom.

It occurs to me that I've never owned a cupboard before. Plenty of drawers and shelves, plenty of rented cabinets and closets, and briefly a set of wardrobes, but never a cupboard with a door, though there are ornamental doors in front of a couple of the drawers in the dresser. (Does 'cupboard' even translate into American?)

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[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Umm. I have a piece of furniture with two doors covering the top half and shelves inside, two drawers below that. We call it an armoire. Is it a cupboard to you?

Mostly cupboards for us are built into the home. The kitchen cabinets are also the kitchen cupboards, depending on who you're talking to.

[ellarien]

That could be a cupboard. Depending on context and size, it could also be a sideboard (if it lives in the dining room and holds dishes and table linens) or even a bureau (if it's small and has a fold-out desktop.)

We have plenty of built-in cupboards, in kitchens or 'under the stairs', and even some wardrobes are 'built in', though those are retrofits in most of the houses I've known.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Our bureaus are just chests of drawers generally and do not have fold-out desktops. Although those sound useful.