Enjoy a few more book-y memes this afternoon. In the photos, you’ll note I made my magnetic Bow Tie o’ the Day out of a couple of my pens and a spare ink refill. I can easily utilize these tools to write what I hope will one day be my million-dollar book of bipolar poetry. 📖 🖊 💵 🤓
Anyhoo… Well, it had to happen sometime. And, coincidentally enough, it happened today: a day on which my morning TIE O’ THE DAY post was book-related. I was hard at work putting a stack of books away, when I ran out of book space on our Stairway to Heaven, which is what we call our artsy stair-rail “bookcase.” I could not fit one more book into the stacks. Luckily, I found a corner of space in the bedroom to put the books that did not fit on the stairs. But I was sad the stair shelves were full. It’s been a cool point of interest our house that visitors seem to fawn over. Some guests relax on the stairs and spend time reading book titles and flipping through whatever books catch their eyes. They are envious we thought of creating such a thing.
Ever since we bought the house, we’ve talked about having a bookcase built in across an entire wall of the living room. For various reasons we have not had it constructed yet, but perhaps now that the stair bookshelf is full, Suzanne will decide it’s finally time. I have a feeling we have put off finding a contractor to build it because when she and I have talked about what it should look like, our visions of how the shelves need to be has not exactly been the same. I want the wall o’ shelves to be simple straight lines, no doors or glass or anything ornate about it. The books will be the stars. Of course, we both want a moving ladder attached to the shelves: on that, we agree. However, I want the built-in to hold only books. It’s a bigly wall, but I’m certain we have enough books to fill it almost completely.
Suzanne, on the other hand, envisions the bookcase as something that can display books, pieces of art, maybe her salt-and-pepper shaker collection, and other various doo-dads, gee-gaws and photos. I believe she thinks the bottom of it should be shelves with doors for keepsakes, or storage, or tablecloths (which we haven’t used in nearly a decade, cuz we just don’t use tablecloths, and I don’t know why we keep them), or whatever else she wants to bring out from her craft room for the crowds to gaze upon.
I suppose we could have a second wall o’ bookshelves built in to a second wall, so we can each be a dictator of one wall unit, but it’s not really practical to do that, space-wise. I guess we could divide the one wall into halves: one half for me to design, one half for Suzanne to design. Now, you know I believe in clash fashion with all my heart, but I also know that if we each designed half a wall, the result would be a nauseating clashing wall of equal good taste in decor that does not play well together. My taste in house decor is modern: sort of like Art Deco or Frank Loyd Wright’s design style. Suzanne has a preference for more ornate, classical, or homey designs. So far, our house design discussions have never devolved into so much as a food fight. We’ll figure it out. We always do.
BTW I still haven’t made a decision about what to do about my truck that never gets built, but I’m going to the dealership to decide tomorrow. Please keep your phone with you in case I need to phone a friend for help with my final answer.
