If you’ve been following along with the saga of my basement renovations, turning a totally unfinished space into a library, here are the results. Still not much furniture but otherwise it’s mostly done.
This is how it looked to start. You can click on all the pics to make them bigger.
And here we are today from the same point of view, which is looking north.
And here we are looking south.
Turn the corner to the right at the south end and it wraps around.
And just turning some more to the right. That far wall is DVDs.
That’s about it for now. The island chests of drawers are for displaying and holding my bookmark collection. I haven’t put the bookmarks in yet. And I haven’t got much art up. But I’m getting there.
Next step is doing the upstairs shelves. The basement is for history, politics, and other non-fiction mostly, with comics and SF/mystery at the south end. The more literary stuff is going to go on the main floor and the loft.
Alex Good 
That is really really really nice! Great job by the Mormons (I think they were Mormons carpenters. So you’re converting the loft next?
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Thanks! The Mennonites built the shelving units. There were a lot of different people involved in this. The loft is just a little space. It’s mostly done. The main next job is the main floor but that’s probably still a couple of years off. I have to do all this in stages.
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Are you having the whole house as a library?
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Basically. There’s a kitchen and large dining area that will have no bookshelves. But I think that’s the only place in the house that won’t have any books.
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That’ll be AAA!
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Sure will! But it’s not going to happen anytime soon. Well, the loft will. Not the main floor!
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Pics along the way please.
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I’ll get ’em up, hopefully before the snow starts to fall.
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Ah snow. I have fond memories of it, but we get very little these days.
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Very cool! And cozy.
Now let me just calculate how many mass-market paperbacks I can shove in there! : -)
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It is pretty cozy. That carpet is really soft.
I do have some MMPBs on the back shelf. If you had a library of nothing but those you could actually fit more in because the shelves wouldn’t have to be as high so you could have more of them. All the shelves here are actually adjustable (except for the DVD wall) but I set them at a standard height for hardcovers and trades.
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Wow!!! I am almost speechless with jealousy…
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I had a neighbour who said she wanted to move in down there.
One of the nice things about having a house full of books is that you don’t have to worry about people breaking in and stealing anything. They sure don’t want to steal books!
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Well, when the inevitable political pendulum shifts down here, I know where to go! Of course, I’ll need a magnifying glass since it’s all paper 😀
Yeah, nice thing about not buying into materialism, you don’t have stuff other people want!
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Doubles as a fallout shelter! Every house should have one.
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Just dropping by for another look-see….
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Anytime! We never close. And you don’t need a library card.
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