A Bookcase by its Cover

One of the most interesting things to do when visiting a friend’s house isn’t to look in their medicine cabinet, a stereotype I’m not sure is founded in reality, but at their bookshelves. We have a lot of books ourselves, which isn’t great in the game of downsizing, but we do refer to a lot of the books on these shelves, often.

The schematic at left shows our nonfiction shelves which reach to the ceiling, and which also include some graphic recording equipment, old sketchbooks and notebooks, and some unwieldy spinning tools. But mostly they are books, mostly reference books. We don’t tend to buy a lot of fiction (except for, lately, comics, usually nonfiction comics though).

I do have a whole section of spinning and knitting books and dvds along with graphic recording books that don’t fit on these shelves which is twitching me up a bit as somewhat untidy…