Saturday, November 29, 2008

A Little Home Improvement

We have an old, strange, but loveable house.  We've done a lot to it already, but there are probably still hundreds of projects remaining.  When we moved in we had these two "built-in" bookshelves in our living room.  They wasted a lot of space in the room and looked pretty messy when we had them full of books.  We also have quite a shortage of seating, so we decided to take them out!

Mike and Lilly inspecting the "backing" of the bookshelves, which was actually just ancient contact paper.  They also had fish-eye hooks holding up the shelves.  They were a lot less charming than they appear in the picture :)

Shelves are gone!

Walls painted, floor stained, Christmas decorations ready to come out

Our new seating area, courtesy of Ikea and some awesome Christmas presents!  (Our tree was here during Christmas, so we didn't get the new chairs until after the tree was down)

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