Now that the holidays are over, I decided to get back on track with organizing. One thing that I left undone this summer was to finish building the book cases for my office. So I decided to make them over Christmas break. After starting the first one on New Year's eve, I finally finished it today, January 2, 2011. It took about 3 or 4 hours in all--a lot longer than a bookcase usually takes for me to build.There were several challenges: first, I had to drag the boxes into the house from the garage. That was no small undertaking since each one weighed about 83 pounds. After that, I had to do what I could during daylight because it was hard to see with the regular lighting in my office. Finally, I ran into problems with the molding. At first, I couldn't get the sides to fit, so there were huge gaps between the shelves and sides. So I contemplated what went wrong, and figured out that I had put the side moldings on backwards. When I turned them around, they finally meshed and the book case now looks great (imho:-) I am hoping the second book case does not take as long--hopefully I can build it tomorrow!
