In the fall, I started looking at this big, beautiful wall and imagined it COVERED in floor to ceiling bookcases, complete with the library ladder and everything.  Mr. L laughed.

Here's our compromise!

The bookcases and glass doors are from IKEA  They were out of our budget, but Mr L discovered the 'as is' section.  Since he works about 5 minutes from IKEA, he just took the van to work every few days and checked into the 'as is' section to see if they had another bookshelf to add to our collection.  After 6 or 7 visits, he had all 7 book cases.  All have a little scratch or ding, and were thus assembled (what a perk) and discounted (yet another perk) 30 - 50%.  When we went for the doors, it happened to be their 20th anniversary and everything was 20% off.  Yeah!

All of this library stuff required us to rework our living room/family room set ups.  Once those changes were in the works we decided what to do about the guest room and a bedroom for the new children.  We shifted the guest room because we don't want children in the bedroom with the front facing window.  Once those rooms were shifted, I got to work on the guest room.

It used to be my sewing room.  The sewing room is now condensed into half the guest room closet, an amoire in my bedroom, and the Koala Cabinet against the far wall in the library.  (You can see it in the picture above.)

Hey - I never even thought about that before - a library/sewing room combination.  Love that!

Getting a closet system installed in the girls' room is next.  After that is the garden and then getting a grip on the spare room for the new children.

Fun fun fun!

Mrs L