Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Cats, Books, Christmas

     The holidays are an especially cluttered time at Roseholme Cottage:
     I think we're going to need some larger shelves.  Huck and Rannie are right at home, in new play/scratching structures.

     Yes, the shelving projects are nowhere near done. That far wall around the windows?  Going to be full of bookshelves.  The other side of the archway is about a third done, and the wall behind the couch will eventually get a set of display shelves, most with plexiglass doors.  That was going to be an Ikea hack and may still be, though they discontinued my first choice.  For some of us, it takes years to really "move in" to a new home.

18 comments:

Douglas2 said...

Where did you get a picture of my house?!! Oh, wait, some details are slightly different. But only slightly.

New Jovian Thunderbolt said...

Type writer center foreground?

Alien said...

Ever considered selling Roseholme and moving into an old library building? Might even come with shelves....

A friend with the same condition once considered turning a bedroom into automated book storage a la mainframe tape silos. The tech of the day wouldn't quite do it, but I'd guess these days there's something that would work; Og would know.

NAVIGATOR said...

BOOKS AND CATS BY THE KILOTON YOU SEEM TO HAVE COPIED MY DESIGN ITS RATHER WONDERFUL SAVE FOR A BOOK SHELVE SHORTAGE WE HAVE THE SAME LOGISTICAL CHALLENGE ENJOY !

Roberta X said...

Yes, NJT, a typewriter. There are...a few.... ;)

Alien: Move to a library, turn the house into one...

Douglas2: the biblioafflicted tend to build similar homes, perhaps?

Bruce H. said...

>> For some of us, it takes years to really "move in" to a new home.

26 years in mine this Saturday and I still feel like I'm just camping here.

Jennifer said...

15 years in what was supposed to be our 5 year starter home. Still not settled. Your clutter is tame.

rickn8or said...
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rickn8or said...

Looks sorta like my place. Only neater, no cats and no rewiring going on.

And what is that black object in the upper right hand corner? Have you acquired a third cat?

Tom McCord said...

I hope Montag and his colleagues at the firehouse are not watching!

Garrett Lee said...

Out of curiosity, is that typewriter a Remington Portable? It looks familiar...

Paul Schwa said...

Ah... all the books! And cats! I love it!

Jeffrey Smith said...

You make me feel so much better. I have only one room completely overrun with books and CDs like that. Although there are satellite piles in every other room.
Question. How do you keep track of where each book is, especially the ones unshelved?

Roberta X said...

I just know. Mostly. :)

Fuzzy Curmudgeon said...

My wife took one look at that picture, looked at me with those big blue eyes, and said, "I'll shut up." :-)

Ken said...

Huck is all "Set phasers on overload."

DaddyBear said...

That looks like heaven, so long as the coffee runs hot and fresh and I'm left alone to read until my eyes burn.

Roberta X said...

Fuzzy: I've always thought of myself as something of a Warning Example.

Ken: He's good with that.

DaddyBear: as long as you don't count that attentions of cats against "left alone to read," you've got it.