if a Wood Chuck could . . . visit our garage right now?
Honestly, I think that we may have lost our minds! Being the deal savvy consumers (ie., cheapskates) that we are, when we heard that a local furniture manufacturer was closing their Dallas operations and liquidating nice bookcases for cheap, we got excited. We have really wanted to transform our front living room into a library, but we simply couldn’t BEAR the thought of shelling out $1,000’s for custom built-in bookshelves. And being children of craftsmen, we couldn’t BEAR the thought of hauling in cheap press board, slap ’em together yourself kind of bookshelves. There’s a time and a place for that type of furniture, but our special literary sanctuary deserved more.
So, Bryan hired a couple of wonderful teenage boys to help him pick up our load of furniture yesterday:
- Eight 7’x3′ bookcases
- Eight bookcase base cabinets
- Four desks
- Two window seat bases (94″ long) + tops
- One craft room work center base + top
- Lots of lumber for shelves, molding, etc.
Our garage is FULL! 
Because of the pricing, we picked up some stuff for my craft room, the game room, and a couple of other areas of the house. The clincher is that everything we purchased is UNFINISHED. Our task list includes:
- Sanding, staining, sealing all of the furniture
- Installing all of the top/edge/base moldings
- Making (or finding someone to make) doors (29 of them by my count) for all of the cabinets.
- Installing all of this in the house BEFORE our baby is born (5 1/2 months from now).
I also still need to refinish the antique (garage sale) beds I got for the girls, and we need to finish up the molding/shelving in their room.
Despite the almost insurmountable task, we aim to be FINISHERS in every sense of the word.
