![]() Oh, and NO shelf brackets or mounting brackets showing. In other words, no sign of visible support. They wanted solid wood slab floating shelves. Oh, and not a box style floating shelf (too thick), Nothing that really had it all.Īfter a week of back and forth, they determined that they liked the floating look. WHAT? Yes, they wanted wall mounted bookshelves of some kind. “Oh, and we really don’t want a lot of heavy woodwork, nothing like traditional built-in’s”. Well, more like a bookshelf wall because it needed to include the TV and a bit of closed storage space. The day their offer on their home was accepted, they sent me a walkthrough video and measurements, asking if we could turn this wall into a library wall. This is how the living room looked the day we arrived. Y ep, for these two, books rank right up there with music and laughter! Before. our home will be filled with music, laughter, and towering piles of books. More on their ketubbah in the Wedsgiving post. It’s their shared vision of what they aspire their married life to be. In general, Katie & Jon explained it’s a contract/promise between them. Here is a lovely explanation of its origin and modern interpretation. Jon is Jewish, so not only do we have a wonderful new son, but also exposure to some wonderful new-to-us ancient traditions, modernized for their lives together. You can read about this feature wall here.Īt the same time, we began work on their living room wall and that mountain of books. That trip, we installed and painted this dining room wall. ![]() This was their dining room about 4 weeks after moving in, the day we arrived.Īll those boxes? Books, and more books! And that is maybe a third of them. We, Hubs and I, drove out in April to begin said injection. Well, almost perfect - it just needed an injection of their personalities! In the meantime they found the perfect historic rowhouse in DC. You can see the Friendsgiving Rehearsal Dinner here and all the special touches they built into the wedding here. They decided they couldn’t risk our health and rescheduled for Thanksgiving 2021. We all know the story of the rising Covid rates with no vaccines yet. Our daughter and our new son planned a small isolated pandemic wedding for Thanksgiving weekend 2020. I have a process to share with amazing results.Īll done by two confident, but totally novice shelf installers with minimal tools. Yes? and Yes? Good, then you’re in the right place, whether you have space for floor to ceiling books, or just a small corner. ![]() Are you a book lover too? Do you dream of a room with floor to ceiling books, but in a fresh contemporary style?
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