Basement: The Final Frontier

This has been such a busy weekend. I had Friday off work, but spent much of the day doing teaching-related stuff. And yesterday, A. and I tackled the basement of the house.

Our basement really is the last frontier - part of it has never really been set up properly. The TV room/zoo/laundry end of things is in good order now. But the study end has been a mess for ages, with multiple bookshelves, A.'s desk and computer, and boxes / piles of paper everywhere. To wit:

BEFORE: Freakin' Disaster Area

We decided that we wanted to move the furniture around a bit, and also put out a large area rug we'd inherited from my in-laws, since that area gets quite chilly in the winter. It was a mammoth task, as we had to take hundreds of books off shelves, then move the bookcases around (as well as the desk). But the end result looks much better.

AFTER: Organisation!

Mind you, A. still has plenty of boxes to unpack, and the piles of paper haven't disappeared. But at least now he's got somewhere to put all that stuff. And perhaps the nicest thing is that when you come down the stairs to the basement now, the first thing you see is a row of orderly bookshelves - not a big messy desk. And that's a good thing, for my mental and aesthetic health!