{"id":23500,"date":"2026-07-10T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=23500"},"modified":"2026-07-10T12:57:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T18:57:58","slug":"new-shelves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/new-shelves\/","title":{"rendered":"New shelves!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I hope you had a great 250th fourth of July! We had a bunch of family in town, so things were kind of crazy all last week. Then, on Monday and Tuesday, I buckled down and finally finished the ongoing home improvement project I’ve been working on for the last couple of months: installing new shelves in my basement office \/ writing den!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those shelves are just common 10″x1″ pine board, bought at the local home depot. They each span 11’2″, which is the length of the wall. I sanded them down and stained them, then installed them all on shelving brackets that we bought on Amazon. Each bracket pair is rated for 100 lbs, so it may have been overkill to get three pair per shelf, but this way I don’t have to worry about the kids hurting themselves by doing something stupid like trying to climb up the shelves while I’m gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Total materials cost for the project was around $560. It would have been cheaper just to buy the BILLY shelves at Ikea, but from what I can tell from the recent online ratings, they’ve been using cheaper materials in order to keep the cost low, so nowadays those selves only have a lifespan of about a year. A new set of higher quality premade shelves would have been around $800 at Home Depot, so I figured it was better just to build them myself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It feels so good to have all of our family’s books up and available to browse! Ever since we moved back into our Orem house, they’ve been sitting in boxes in the spare bedroom in the basement, taking up space. But with the way our family’s growing, we’ve been needing to get that de facto storage room set up as a girl’s bedroom. So the books needed to find a new home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next step: fix up the basement bathroom, and install a desk light in the spare bedroom, so that our oldest can move downstairs. I also want to get an easy chair, to turn this writing den into a reading nook. If we bring in a desk or an easel for the other side, we can use this room for homeschooling, too. It would be really convenient to be able to work on my writing while my daughter is in the other corner, working on schoolwork.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So yeah, things are taking shape very nicely. As far as the writing goes, I’m working hard on Lord of the Falconstar<\/em> now, trying to get as far into it as I can before my wife goes back to full-time work. She goes back into the office next Monday, so I really need to buckle down and make as much headway as I can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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