New shelves

I mentioned two Ikea trips – these are the shelves we bought on the first trip – the Billy shelf.
source – Ikea catalog

Rather dull, but with potential and big enough to give us plenty of space. We decided one wasn’t enough – we bought three! I also thought the plain white looked a bit dull, so thanks to some ideas from the Ikea Hacker website, we covered the cardboard backing with blue wall paper. Here is how it all went together:

For those of you with a straight eye – we eventually did get the shelf on the left in the final picture to stand straight. Imagine now if you can the the shelves are now full of books. Yes, between the two of us, we really do have that many books.

Ikea

We have made two trips to Ikea in the past month. Two! It takes about an hour to drive there (and of course one hour back). This is how the back of our car looked after the second trip. On our first trip we bought Ikea shelves – they were so long, I needed to sit in the back while Robin sat in the front and drove. On this second trip, we bought two dressers, a few things for organizing, and cupcake liners (because they were cute!).