After you help out the great bookstores mentioned in recent posts, what do you do when you realize you're out of shelf-space? SpaceXDoors has a bookcase that doubles as a door. It pulls forward at the center, folding and revealing an open doorway. Sounds great to me!
If you like the idea of a door/bookcase, but this isn't the perfect solution for you, here are lots of other suggestions offered at Metafilter.
Saturday, February 17, 2007
Too Many Books?
3 comments:
I'm so glad you found these and have linked to them. We actually built these, from this exact company. We replaced our sliding closet doors with a three-panel set of these, and it has been wonderful.
I'd like to warn folks that it's not easy to do, though. Unless you have a professional install them for you, you're in for a lot of work. It took us three weeks (although one of the weeks was spent staining the wood the color we wanted). We had to buy a lot of things at the hardware store we'd never needed before (spade drill bits?), but by watching the instruction video and following the written instructions, we managed to do it right the first time, and we love them. Besides, having done it ourselves means that we're ultra-proud of them - it's by far the hardest thing we've ever done to the house. Now we just don't want to ever have to move, because we'd have to leave them behind, but we'd probably build another set in whatever place we moved into: they're that cool and useful.
That's wonderful that you love them so much. Isn't that funny; I thought of these when you made a comment recently about shelf space. I came across this site years ago, upon an online recommendation,and when I saw your earlier comment, I spent about 30 minutes looking for just this one.
Actually, I was sort of joking about shelf space. After we put these up last year, for the first time in our memory we've actually got some free shelf space. They're very tall, and each section has six shelves on it. I still haven't used up all the space it freed up. I've even gotten very lazy, and I've got one whole shelf reserved for issues of "New York Review of Science Fiction" (even though I've only got 4 issues so far), and another one reserved for Locus issues.
Thanks for thinking of me! It is a perfect solution for those short of both bookshelf space and floor space. Curtis (husband) is starting to worry about me filling up even these (especially with the Clarkesworld order), and is once again fretting about shelving, but I think I've got at least another year before I have to worry about that again.
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