I can't imagine being any more excited than I am right now! When we moved to the new house, we agreed that the whole basement (minus the room with HVAC) would be my craft room. We wanted a guest room with ultimate privacy, so I'm turning the room down there with a door into a Harry Potter themed guest room, but the rest of it is mine, all mine! lol The first thing we did was have the brown carpet torn up and replaced with a wood-like waterproof floor. There was carpet down the stairs, too, so we had hardwood put in. It was by far the most expensive part of the whole project. It looks SO good!
The next thing I did was decide that my children's books were going to stay here, not at school, so I could bring them in as needed. That's what is in the 35+ Lowes boxes in the picture below. To make it work, we decided that the back wall should be a wall of shelves.
After a trip to IKEA for Billy Bookcases, my wonderful sister spent the weekend helping me build the wall of my dreams. I put wallpaper on the back of each shelving unit before installing, which looks great, and then painted the trim the same blue color as the guest bedroom next door to it.
Here are the shelves nearly complete. You can see we still had the brown carpet at that point, so I had ripped up enough to do my job.
And here it is completed! I have a few more boxes of books that won't quite fit, along with some clear totes for other teaching stuff, so I'll get some big storage shelves that won't be as pretty to go around it, but here is the first look at my beautiful library!
