Coffeegoddess Christmas Gift

Coffeegoddess and I went up to Lowes and grabbed some likely color swatches for painting the hallway adjoining the media room and the recently remodeled bathroom. looks like a pale green will be the choice, I think the swatch says "Zen Garden". Might go by there this evening and pick up primer and paint for that mini-project.

We also grabbed swatches for likely kitchen paint colors, and for the center wall that runs about 2/3 the length of the house, from the kitchen, through the dining room and family room. Looks like a dark maroon for the kitchen and some kind of grey for the center wall.

We applied a self-adhesive linoleum that takes an epoxy grout (looks more or less like ceramic tile when completed) in the bathroom, so will probably go with that same flooring in the kitchen.

I've been thinking about storage solutions for my SF/F paperback collection. I lucked into some cardboard trays a local used bookstore uses for their storage and shipping requirements, they are all filled now. I can't purchase any more of those evidently. I've been thinking for a while now about making wood crates that have sides about 4 1/2 inches high (accomodating a paperback book with the spine facing upward) that would hold 4 rows of paperbacks, with some kind of routed egde so I could stack the crates without the books being compressed/damaged. I could also just use bankers boxes, which wont hold books as neatly and would be harder to inventory and find books I want to read, but would be fantastically cheaper. I could use the trays from the bookstore to store books on my "shortlist" to read, and simply put all the other books into bankers boxes with a printed manifest attached to the box. That would probably be sufficient.

I will need to pack and store the SF/F to get the bookcases off the center wall when we start painting that. I've already decided to un-double the shelves in the living room, where my western canon, philosophy, history, and encyclopedic sets are now double-shelved, rather than returning the paperback SF/F to shelves after painting. It will reduce the clutter, and make the books more accessible (plus redistribute the weight on the trailer floor).