Bookshelf and Windowseat

This is one of the original photos I took of our house, pre demolition.  Looking back, I have to laugh a little at my ignorance as to what it would take to transform this wreck of a house.  With more than two years under my belt of home renovation I can finally see rooms as what they will be.  Lovely, functional spaces in our home.

 

This is the living room after the floor was torn up, the wall on the right had been redone, but still lacked new windows and ceiling.

 

This is what the living room book case looks like today.  I have the doors put on and the shelves organized.  I would like to put trim on the window seat, but that is really the last project for that area.

 

Here's a look at the left bookshelf, and a better view of the doors with their eyebrow arch.  I was hoping it would complement the adjacent archway.

 

I love collecting things, which you will see when I post pictures of the bookcase in the dining room.  I collect vintage cameras, globes, keys, and such.  I also love bikes.  Matt just got me a vintage Sears bike we will have to fix up.

 

Here is the window seat.  Have I noted yet that my awesome husband built all of this, the bookcases, the window seats, the ceiling, and even replaced the windows.  He's a good man to let me design whatever suits my fancy and then he builds it.  We make a good team.  The window seat has storage space that you can get to from under the cushion.  My mother-in-law did an amazing job covering that giant cushion for me.

 

A shot of the other bookcase.  More of my camera and globe collections.