I’m once again behind. A day of driving around yesterday. We got a late start. Didn’t know where we were going. Why isn’t there a real
to mark the spot? We were looking for a Habitat for Humanity ReStore to find bookshelves and dressers. Got there just as they closed leaving us to settle for Wally World.
We didn’t like the dressers but found a cube bookshelf that could hold cloth baskets and eventually, if we find a better dresser this could stand up and be for books.
Long day. Plenty of pain, on many levels. Kali didn’t get to go so she gave me quite the lecture when I got home.
This “dresser” bookshelf was fairly easy and outside of missing a locking screw–WHY??? turned out to look like its picture:
That was how it looks on the box. We haven’t put it in its home yet so can’t take a picture of how it turned out.
The real bookshelf… Says on the box that it is 71 in high but comes in a box half that height. The instructions were horrid!!! WHY???? Here’s how it looks on the box:
We finally got ours to look like that without the stuff. It seems upside down as it turns out but we fixed it. Now it needs a wall to put against and help to restrain it. Then a bunch of books will find their new home and a dining room might emerge from the walls of boxes. Yes, all from my hobby room that is now my son’s room.
The easiest project was the coffee table that turned out way smaller than I thought it would be–so I need another or a storage hassock or something. Here’s how the coffee table looks on the box:
It will be nice not to have to drag my TV trays around the sofas so that I can knit and compute. But now I need to have coasters. LOL!
SO this was a SoCS brought to us by Linda G Hill
With a little of the A to Z Challenge mixed in. If you couldn’t tell X and Y were the letters of the day for me.
Darswords 
Good luck with putting the flat packs together. I love the way the furniture looks on the boxes but get myself into a real mess making it up.
They were frustrating! But we managed. My brother worked with my carpenter grandfathers when he was young so when the instructions failed us he took matters into his own hands. I became supervisor rather than ‘navigator’. We have three strong pieces of furniture. Yay! us!
Those bookshelves are the devil. Or maybe, more of a necessary evil. We’ve had 8 in 20 years, now have 5. One day, ONE DAY, We Will Build All Sturdy Wooden Ones.They will reach the ceiling, they will not wobble, the shelves will not bend. Join me in my dream? lol
Sometimes I miss the shelves I had as a single girl — they were just wooden boards supported by cinder blocks — but oh, they were sturdy, and easy to assemble!
I join you in your dream! We lost a few in the last move–they didn’t even make it to the truck! If only we had real sturdy shelves! And here we go again. I needed to put stuff away and didn’t find the ones I wanted. Maybe we should save up money just for some boards! This chippy particle board falls apart as you put them together! Grrrr! I almost got some cinder blocks the day we got these but my son was paying and didn’t like the looks of them. Now I think he wishes we would have done this differently.
For us, it’s not the money we need to redo the floors — why would we build in new shelves and then tear up the floor? But also, the space to build them. You basically have to build section by section. I dunno. ONE DAY, ONE DAY! 😀 I tell you what, though, I recently saw some large terracotta bricks and don’t you think for a moment I didn’t wonder…
ONE DAY! 😀