Still working on that same theme – what works for me in our new, lovely, smaller space?
Last week, it was those really neat storage “hackusses”. We’re still loving those.
This week we started taking a look at what we want for the bedroom. One thing we want a lot less of is furniture. There is just not enough space for a wardrobe, two bookcases, my desk, the bed, the desk chair… we need all of these pieces – just not in the bedroom.
In the kitchen is a microwave cart not doing much of anything other than holding up the microwave and providing a small drawer beneath it. The cart is located in a space wide enough to fit one of the bookcases nicely. But… it’s under the kitchen window. I don’t want to put a bookcase in front of a window. It will look awful from the outside (and probably violate some senior housing authority rule about fire safety – they’re big on fire safety here) and it will block the light coming into the kitchen.
But hey…
if we take the back off the bookcase we can still use the shelves-
the light can still come through -
and the bookcase will fall down.
I guess I’m not that well versed in the construction of bookcases. (you need the back to support the frame. 
)
How about if we cut off half of the back of the bookcase? The half that covers the window? We could leave the bottom half of the back on for support. (Grampy sort of frowned and muttered a half-hearted “we can try that if you want to…)
Yes!
Here is the bookcase in the its new location, providing a whole bunch of space – both on its shelves and in the place it vacated in the bedroom – and letting the light shine in.
I suppose we may still be violating some sort of fire exit rule but we’ll worry about that when someone mentions it. Until then – works great for me!
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if it works for you that’s all that matters right?
I would say it’s a very good use of space
When there’s a will, there’s a way. It can be so hard to live in a tiny space. Just an idea if you want to get more light, or the senior housing complains — would the bookcase fit on the wall with the calendar?
husbands always sigh and mutter. start to tackle the project yourself (like retilling the bathroom, for instance), that’ll get him moving.