Home DIY

The Bookcase Saga Continues

With a budget of $500 or less, I will attempt to rework my messy craft/office space into a more motivation-inspiring and professional-looking maker’s workshop. (Because you shouldn’t have to be an acrobat to get to your sewing table.)

In my last post, I mentioned that I had four fairly old bookcases, of the sort that were as cheap as they came when I got them between three and seven years ago, all comprised of particle board and covered in a vaguely wood-look black veneer. Two of those bookcases were easily disassembled in the middle. Two of them… not so much.

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Home DIY

From Bookcase to Table Base

Here we are at the beginning. And in the beginning, so I am told, the world was created. And only after the mouth of the sea and the teeth of the mountains and the crown of the sky were created–only then, when the setting was set and the fruit was ripe, did little people made of corn and clay toddle around the world’s expanse, exploring and making more things out of other things.

It seems right, then, that before I get into any sewing or crafting or other experiments of a similar scale, I should first will into being a good environment in which such things may be accomplished.

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