A crazy thought popped into my head one day while doing my daily doings. I was trying to figure out how to make the large open space of our foyer more enjoyable. I wanted a centerpiece for the area that would make people stop and say, “wow!” So I got the silly idea to make a two story bookshelf. I ran the idea by my lovely wife as a sort of, whatadayathink. She thought that it’d be pretty cool, and here she is in this picture modeling off the final product. So we did a quick guestimate to how many shelves we wanted and did a few browsings at the local diy stores for shelves and brackets. I did a test run at 3 shelves. And then next day I went out to get 3 more because of how cool it was looking. A week or two later and we were at 8. We planned 9 originally, but decided against the last one, thinking it would be too close to the ceiling.
It’s amazing how this really draws your eye upwards and makes you notice how high the foyer actually is. We still are decorating in the foyer and making things look nice, but man is this a show stopper or what. Sara really loves it which makes me happy. She was having so much fun arranging all of her books and nic-naks on each shelf with their own individual stories. She keeps telling me, “I feel like I live in a Barnes and Noble!” Apparently that’s her lifetime dream, I’m glad that I could give her a little piece of that. Thank God for another one of my crazy wild ideas!
update: Oh and by the picture you can see the first shelf starts at 3′ from the floor. Just out of reach from any little kiddies wanting to be Spiderman. These shelves are only rated at 15lbs max, good thing I had studs that lined up for both floors.
