HELP WANTED: Young girl, 1-2 years old, cute as a button, good with hammer
Right. So a few posts ago, which it turns out is a few months ago by now, I resolved to posting more often. Well soon after that the internet connection at our apartment became a thing of the past, so the only time we have available online is when we take the laptop to the library. Since this usually means one of us uses the computer while the other chases Addie around, switching halfway through, we tend to not do anything with the blog.
Anyway. Our apartment has two bedrooms, and since Addie sleeps in ours the second one is a combination spare bedroom/craft room/library/office. And in that spare bedroom/craft room/library/office are two bookcases--both built by me--one crammed full of books and the other with Ame's craft stuff, the latter being the first one built. Well it turns out that the fine folks in the lumber section of Home Depot aren't the most reliable sources for providing their customers with multiple pieces of lumber cut to the same length. They get them close, sure, but when you're talking about something like a bookcase you need all the shelves to be the same length.
I failed to notice that some of the shelves were a little longer than others until I already had the thing mostly put together, but with a few extra nails and an L-bracket at each corner the thing held up just fine. (As a side note, I took a few precautionary measures before starting the second bookcase, so it's nice and sturdy.) So we've been living with this not-quite-perfect bookcase for a few months now, and when I recently noticed that it was leaning a lot more than it was initially I decided it was time to take it apart, cut the individual shelves to the same length, and put it back together. Always curious and more than ready to help, Addie stepped into the room one night before bed and went to work.
And here's the kicker: after I cut the shelves to the same length and began putting the case back together, I realized that the real problem was that one of the side boards was considerably warped, which was preventing all of the shelves from fitting flush against the sides. So now in that spare bedroom/craft room/library/office we've got one bookcase packed full of books and one hastily-nailed-together-quasi-shelf-sort-of-thing for some of Ame's craft stuff.
Anyway. Our apartment has two bedrooms, and since Addie sleeps in ours the second one is a combination spare bedroom/craft room/library/office. And in that spare bedroom/craft room/library/office are two bookcases--both built by me--one crammed full of books and the other with Ame's craft stuff, the latter being the first one built. Well it turns out that the fine folks in the lumber section of Home Depot aren't the most reliable sources for providing their customers with multiple pieces of lumber cut to the same length. They get them close, sure, but when you're talking about something like a bookcase you need all the shelves to be the same length.
I failed to notice that some of the shelves were a little longer than others until I already had the thing mostly put together, but with a few extra nails and an L-bracket at each corner the thing held up just fine. (As a side note, I took a few precautionary measures before starting the second bookcase, so it's nice and sturdy.) So we've been living with this not-quite-perfect bookcase for a few months now, and when I recently noticed that it was leaning a lot more than it was initially I decided it was time to take it apart, cut the individual shelves to the same length, and put it back together. Always curious and more than ready to help, Addie stepped into the room one night before bed and went to work.
And here's the kicker: after I cut the shelves to the same length and began putting the case back together, I realized that the real problem was that one of the side boards was considerably warped, which was preventing all of the shelves from fitting flush against the sides. So now in that spare bedroom/craft room/library/office we've got one bookcase packed full of books and one hastily-nailed-together-quasi-shelf-sort-of-thing for some of Ame's craft stuff.
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