Then we spent months and months settling in (all those cabinets and drawers to organize!) and the books were accessible, so there wasn’t a sense of urgency.
Then, once we were all settled, urgency.
Actually, just: now we have a clear runway…
So we began considering options for the home library. After exploring custom built-ins and discovering that was outside our budget, we decided to go basic.
We headed to IKEA.
When we were visiting Nashville, we went to The Book Shop, where the owner told us that she’d bought IKEA Hemnes shelves for her (beautiful) shop.
So when the time came for us to choose shelves, we went with the Hemnes shelves in white. And the cool thing is that they’re available in two sizes, so we could mix and match to fit our space.
We went with two 35-inch shelves and one 19-inch shelf.
There then ensued a weekend of IKEA shelf building… and that super fun extra trip to the IKEA returns department to pick up the one little piece missing from the box.
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