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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nThis is our main family room (please excuse the mess\u2014small children and all). It has a little bit of shelf space by the stairs, which we could use for maybe a few dozen books, but we have a lot more than that. Boxes and boxes more. Behind the camera is the kitchen\/dining area, so there isn’t much space for books there. And everything else on this floor is already taken, with bedrooms for the kids and a master suite for my wife and me\u2014and my wife doesn’t want to cram all our books in our bedroom. With another small child on the way, I can’t blame her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is the downstairs main room. Again, please excuse the mess\u2014we’re currently using this area as the kids’ play room. The bookshelves either have games or kids’ books, so those are taken. Behind the camera is a kitchenette area that we’re currently using to hold our food storage (and we have a lot of it, so that’s probably not going to change). Besides the main room here, there are two bedrooms, one of which is currently for storage, and the other is an office for my wife and me. Again, there’s not much space for shelves in either of those\u2026 and besides, we’d rather have our books out where people can see them (or at least where our kids can easily browse them).<\/p>\n\n\n\n What I suppose we could do is get rid of the massive TV (my wife won it from her work during a holiday raffle, and we don’t use it much, so it wouldn’t be a big deal to downsize) and move the dresser into another room, so that we could use that whole wall for shelves. That might<\/em> fit all of our books, if the shelves stretched from floor to ceiling. It would be a big project, since we would have to use all of that space\u2014and would probably also have to move the light switch\u2014but it could be done. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Another idea I’ve had is to install shelves in the family room up above the main window. We could probably wrap it around most of the room, even into the dining room area if we had to. Have any of you done something like that? I’m a little bit worried it would make the room feel cramped, but it is a place where we could put a shelf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Other than that, I’m kind of at a loss. I could try to get rid of most of my books, but I have no idea how successful that would be, since I tend to acquire new ones as quickly as I lose the old ones. It’s a blessing\u2026 and a curse. I’m sure that most of you can relate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In any case, what do you do with all of your books? Where do you keep them? What would you do if you lived in our house?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Now that we’ve moved back into our old house, unpacking all of our stuff and finding places for it, I just have to wonder\u2026 where in the heck do bookish normal people keep all of their books? 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