Built-ins are coming back into style. My house has a built-in bookshelf. I’m not that proud of it. It was one of those projects where a tight budget and a tight deadline ruled the project. On the other hand it does hold a lot of books, more that it should now that I look at it. When I started I remember stating emphatically to my wife “There will be no books placed sideways upon books standing vertically.” You know, when the shelf is too full to hold another book, you just shove the book sideways in the space underneath the next shelf. We didn’t even finish unpacking the boxes from the storage room when illegal book parking occurred.
In order to save money, I bought a bunch of particle board shelving units. I arranged them then screwed them together and faced the mid-section with trim. It was fast and cheap, but looks okay. The particle board was not “shelf grade”. There is product specifically made for shelving material. It’s stiffer and won’t bend under the stress of heavy objects on the shelf. I found a good PDF on the use of MDF for shelving though the https://www.compositepanel.org/ The link is here: Particleboard and MDF For Shelving Technical Article. There are more technical articles on this web page: https://www.compositepanel.org/resources/standards/
I mention this information since I am going to be building another built-in bookshelf. This one will be in one of the bedrooms. My two children like books too. The both need more shelves for all their books…or we all need less books.
No. Books are good.
What I’m reading and what I’ve read.
Over the summer, I managed to read this one:
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
An Inquiry Into Values
by Robert M. Pirsig
I had to skim read a lot of esoteric sections. The term rhetoric comes to mind and was used quite often in the book, however the storyline was quite compelling.
Current Reading:
Pawned
by Frank L. Packard
https://openlibrary.org/books/OL23761508M/Pawned
