The Book Shelf from Hell

Bought one of those easy to put together bookshelves from the container store.

Buying a bookshelf from a container store should send up all kids of red flags when we are purchasing the darn shelves but hey that is another story.

The bookshelf was very heavy. The guy at the store just wheeled it out on the dolly and hoisted it up and placed it in the back of my Bravada.

Once I got the bookshelf home it was not as easy to get it out of the Bravada and onto another dolly, well a sort of dolly.

Pulled just about every thing I have in this old body to get the bookshelf out of the Bravada and onto the make shift dolly.

Never seem to have the right equipment to get the job done in a timely manner.

Wouldn’t it be nice to have the right tools to get the job done quickly instead of having to buy tool after tool after tool and then still not getting the job done the way you think it should be done.

Got the bookshelf to the room I want it in and then discovered I did not have enough room in that room to take all the pieces out of the box and then put them together. Move it all out in the hallway and then put the bookshelf together.

Having a diagram with works always works for me. Took my time and put the bookshelf together in almost no time at all. Once the bookshelf was together I noticed I had three sections of fake wood I did not use along with lots of extra nuts, bolts and other such hardware. I just hate to have anything left over and hate not having enough of what I need in order to put something together.

Life is just so funny when it comes to building something. Build it just like the instructions say to build it and you have parts left over or not enough parts!

Once the bookshelf was together I put the little carpet protectors/sliders under each corner of the shelf and then pushed it easily down the hallway to the room.

The bookshelf slid right into the small space I had cleared for it and looked GREAT. I am no dummy and knew this entire project was too easy and was waiting for the something somet hing to show up. Yep, I am never all that great at building and always have something-go wrong when I put something together. Nothing happened and the bookshelf looked great.

Stood back and looked, it still looked great and it still fit the space!

Wow, managed to get something right today.

Hope all of you had a good bookshelf day-to-day just as I have…smiling.