We've had these boxes stacked up in the winery shed since we moved, and we've really really really needed to unpack them.

I was starting to suffer severe withdrawal from cookery books, and there are so many birds I need to identify, to say nothing of desperately wanting the John Seymour Self-Sufficiency and Forgotten Arts and Crafts books so we can work out how to sharpen that scythe we picked up in Talbot the other day.

Besides, I feel a little lost without my beloved books.

We decided that the second living room would be the perfect place to build in some shelving - mostly because it's pretty well an unusable space at the moment:

So my wonderful man spent a few days building some bookshelves!

Custom built into the available space, there are now 3 walls completely covered with shelving:

(Yep - there's more )

And we ended up with something absolutely wonderful!

A couple of extra bookshelves were still required - the two in the main living room now hold reference books and cookery books, and S-Z ended up in a couple of bookcases in the office, along with assorted collections of Agatha Christie, Nevil Shute, Isaac Asimov and other hardback groupings.

All in all a wonderful 3 days of effort, even if special trips to the chiro were required