Thank you. :-) I get the same (somewhat smaller) sense of accomplishment from fixing up old junk furniture that I get from restoring my Japanese blades...it's nice to give an old thing a new lease on life.
Check out your local Salvation Army/Goodwill/AmVets for bookcases before you buy new ones. I saw DOZENS of wonderful solid wood bookcases yesterday and if you paint them all with the same color it doesn't matter if they don't match style-wise. Plus you could surely "decorate" them. Black wooden bookcases with "mille fleur" vines chasing up and down the sides would look lovely in a big colonial house like yours.
I'm trying to get better with the before/after pics. :-) I learned from the master!
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Date: 2007-06-26 07:27 pm (UTC)Check out your local Salvation Army/Goodwill/AmVets for bookcases before you buy new ones. I saw DOZENS of wonderful solid wood bookcases yesterday and if you paint them all with the same color it doesn't matter if they don't match style-wise. Plus you could surely "decorate" them. Black wooden bookcases with "mille fleur" vines chasing up and down the sides would look lovely in a big colonial house like yours.
I'm trying to get better with the before/after pics. :-) I learned from the master!