After a fortnight of painting lounge walls, it’s time to cast aside the dust cloth shroud and resurrect the library bookcase which has lain forgotten under a pile of dirty sheets like an Egyptian mummy.
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| Walls now a lovely shade of Green Earth |
If I thought we’d had a hard time of it so far on this project then think again. Aaaahhh! No wonder NJ charges a small fortune for its bespoke furniture, it probably has to use any surplus cash for carpenter counselling after each build.
Time to add the quirky compartments to the bookcase units – I’m having a meltdown before we’ve even begun! Whose great idea was it to add these compartments in the first place? I’ve only myself to blame…
In simplistic fashion, the bookcase compartments are being created using ‘T’ shaped inserts that will slot into the tallest shelf gaps thus splitting the space available into 3 smaller sections.
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| Creating a shelf compartment |
To ensure best use is made of the available shelf space, each section has been created to correspond to the heights of particular books in our collection or with specific ornaments in mind.
Construct your ‘T’ shaped inserts with two pieces of wood. Imagine the letter ‘T’ but laid on its side. The vertical piece should be the height of the gap between the two horizontal shelves. Once you have determined the width of the tallest compartment and positioned the vertical piece, the remaining space should give you the dimension for the horizontal T bar. Cut and screw both pieces together on one side to make your ‘T’.
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| Make a T shaped section from 2 pieces of wood |
Like the original NJ design, there are a number of compartments that will mirror each other in both our units so we’ve had to make four ‘T’ pieces and these will sit on the shelves in the following positions:
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| T piece positions prior to painting |
I know it looks a bit Heath Robinson now but I’m sure once all the bits have been primed, painted and screwed into their final positions it’ll all start to make sense.
Now let’s crack open the black furniture paint and get these puppies painted!
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| Primed |
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| Painted |
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