It’s
totally shameless not to have updated this blog since October, but I
can assure you that since then various bits of work have gone on: The
bamboo flooring was laid in the living room at the end of last year and
beginning of this one. It looks beautiful. However, we can’t continue laying more flooring in the other rooms until we free up some space. Since
most of it is consumed by my mountains of books with nowhere to place
them, the solution seems to be to crack on and build the alcove units
and bookcases in the living room. This should help alleviate the problem.
The last few weekends have been spent with measuring up & sketching out a logical way to build them. As
the final product will be painted white to match the architraves and
skirting, we’ve decided to build them out of 30mm MDF, which should
result in some robust units and avoid sagging shelves (one of my pet
hates). The bookshelves in the living room will mainly be
for the growing collection of over-sized art books so they need to
support a lot of weight.
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| Photograph: www.caligaricabinets.co.uk |
The
various quotes online I’ve seen for alcove cabinets with bookshelves
have varied from £750 - £1200 per unit so I’m hoping that building them
ourselves will save us a fair bit of money. The material costing of 3 units worked out at around £120 per unit (excluding doors & handles). The
third unit is a slim line unit for bedroom one to accommodate the
smaller books with a 4 door cabinet below for DVDs & CDs. I'd love to have them custom built but sadly my budget doesn't stretch that far, but there are plenty of pictures online (as left and below) for inspiration.
The
advantage of custom made furniture is that you can utilise the space as
you want to, to suit your needs rather than trying to buy pre-made cabinets and ending up with a lot of dead space.
The motif in the living room is going to be glass so I've sourced some lovely square glass cabinet handles, but more on that later.
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| Photograph: www.peterhendersonfurniture.co.uk |
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