Ever since we moved, I really have not been feeling our family room. Everything we need to do in there feels so overwhelming. We need a huge area rug (the room is 18x24 ft). We need the wallpaper removed and the walls painted ($$$). We need new sofas ($$$). I decided to take off bite-sized chunks of reno tasks, and the easiest and cheapest with the quickest gratification was the built ins.
Let me show you what the builts in looked like before I got my hands on them last night while K was on a business trip:
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| Sad state. The room is large but so dark. I plan to remove that dark blue wallpaper and paint the walls white, especially with the built ins, trim and molding being french gray. Don't mind my assistant. |
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| Such a mess.. |
I decided at least having decent books would help the sad, neglected college-like built ins. I ended up at Reader's Corner on Hillsborough Street. The owners thought I had lost my mind. The entire front of their store are all 0.25 and 0.10 books! I went hog wild, obviously.
I raced home from work and took advantage of the time I had before Khaner would be negotiating all his high school and college memorabilia sustain their home on the shelves. Since when is a fraternity PADDLE appropriate for a young couple's home? Never.
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| Ta da! Sadly, the 130 books purchased have still left about 6 shelves empty. |
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| Much better. We need a few more photos for the shelves. |
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| Don't mind my tarnished Revere bowls and Champion cups - they all need some good polishing. |
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