The Chuckles Great DIY Nightmare #3

 
This was the day I was really dreading, when most of the work was going to be done. As a reminder, here is how things looked on Tuesday when I finished. 

WEDNESDAY 

Right, strap yourselves in and here we go. I started at ten this morning, and task number one was to empty Bookcase 4. I was going solo today as my dad wasn't feeling well (just tired as he didn't sleep) and I got stuck into carefully emptying it. All five shelves with two rows of books on each shelf. The hoover of course broke down so I had to get a dustpan and brush to the floor where the Bookcase was moving to, then I got it into position and dusted it. I then emptied the big cd rack on top of Bookcase 2 and got it on top of Bookcase 4. After that I dusted and filled the cd rack again and felt pretty happy with progress so far. That was an hour of work, including a rest for liquid refreshment!  

Next, I got my brush to the floor where Bookcase 4 used to be and emptied Bookcase 2. I moved it into position in front of the fire (old gas fire that doesn't work) Now I actually have all my bookcases pretty much in out the way as far as they will go. What an absolute joy to know I'll be able to move around without falling over stuff! But I'm getting ahead of myself. Now I had to face moving all the books out of Bookcase 1 and move the books in from the other two rooms a pile at a time and deciding what was going to go in the back of eleven shelves in total. Oh man. 

 

In the back of the shelves I was putting things like my dvd box sets of Gold Rush, Bering Sea Gold, Ax Men, Jungle Gold, also my mass market paperbacks, VHS tapes I wanted to keep, extra editions of favourite books ie Harry Potter and ASOI&F, and some books I've read and won't get back to for a while. In the front of Bookcase 4, I put my urban fantasy collection on all five shelves along with YA dystopia. On the front of Bookcase 1 next to my bed are favourites like my best editions of Harry Potter and ASOI&F, Paddington, and some of the non fiction books I intend to read soon. On Bookcase 2 at the front are my Indie horror collection.

 

I still have a lot of books that don't have shelf space yet but I do intend to sort out a couple of other bookcases over the coming weeks (Bookcases 6, 7, 8, 9). Once they are sorted out, I'll get more space to work with. Still, the worst is over now from a moving furniture point of view. The rest is about sorting books into genres and authors, maybe changing which bookcase they go on, stuff like that. I'm still not thinking about the piles of binbags to sort through and everything I need to find a home for!!! I still have to sort through the books and get some unwanted books into bags for the charity shop next year, but again, that's for another day. Here is how the room looks after all that work! 

 

THURSDAY

So much for a rest day! My dad and I spent the whole day ripping up the boxes for VHS tapes and got it into our recycling bin. They need to be ripped up nice and small to get maximum use out of the bin and stuff more in it! Still, it gets another task over and done with. What fun!!! My hands look like claws at the moment!

FRIDAY

So stiff it took me two hours after the alarm went off before I finally crawled out of bed! I was so stiff and sore but I'm pleased at what has been achieved so far. Now I need to get on with the task of gradually going through these dreaded binbags and getting as much in the bin as possible!