Before

I finally started building built-in bookcases in our living room. It was long overdue but I was just too busy with other things to make something for ourselves.

Here’s an artist impression of how it will look like in a few weeks.

Apart from the bookcases there will be drawers for CDs and a big shelf for Alison to put plants on. After the bookcases, one in every corner, are finished, my books can finally leave the boxes that they inhabited for the past four and a half years. I don’t even remember which books I brought to Canada and which I left behind.

While temporarily putting Alison’s books and the books I collected over the past years into boxes I felt very sad. It somehow seemed I was moving out, instead of building something new. Fortunately that feeling didn’t last long, but I surely hope I didn’t suddenly became clairvoyant…