Did you ever notice that when you don’t want something, there are lots of them, everywhere? You can’t get away from them. You practically trip over one of them every time you leave the safety of your house! And yet, the minute you decide you really want or need one of them, Ta-da! There are absolutely none to be found. Anywhere. For any price.
You’d think a bookcase would be an easy thing to find. They’re large, blocky pieces of furniture with lots of shelf space. They can (usually) be found anywhere from Wal-Mart to the high-end furniture store where I sometimes go to see how the other half lives. They come in an assortment of colors and shapes and sizes. At least, they used to.
I recently acquired a flat panel TV, which doesn’t fit on my admittedly outdated TV stand, so I found a lovely stand for it. Now my old stand has a bookcase down one side, which houses the books of all my favorite authors. Since the old TV stand has to go, I need a bookcase to put said books on. Books are not negotiable items. They stay.
I had a rough idea of what I wanted when I set out for the world of retail torture. It had to look reasonably nice, be of wood, (I hate metal furniture) and be of a light color to fit in with the rest of the furniture. Oak. Maple. Pine. I’m not very fussy.
Well, I trailed through every store in three towns and could not find one single bookcase that met my criteria. They were either way too big for my modest living room, too dark in color, or simply too ugly. One very helpful salesperson explained to me that bookcases are out of fashion at the moment. I was dumb-founded.
Luckily for me, one of the stores had a fantastic sale on leather furniture, so here I sit on my new leather armchair, my feet up on the super comfortable new matching leather ottoman while I browse online to see if I can find that most elusive of creatures, a bookcase!
You’d think a bookcase would be an easy thing to find. They’re large, blocky pieces of furniture with lots of shelf space. They can (usually) be found anywhere from Wal-Mart to the high-end furniture store where I sometimes go to see how the other half lives. They come in an assortment of colors and shapes and sizes. At least, they used to.
I recently acquired a flat panel TV, which doesn’t fit on my admittedly outdated TV stand, so I found a lovely stand for it. Now my old stand has a bookcase down one side, which houses the books of all my favorite authors. Since the old TV stand has to go, I need a bookcase to put said books on. Books are not negotiable items. They stay.
I had a rough idea of what I wanted when I set out for the world of retail torture. It had to look reasonably nice, be of wood, (I hate metal furniture) and be of a light color to fit in with the rest of the furniture. Oak. Maple. Pine. I’m not very fussy.
Well, I trailed through every store in three towns and could not find one single bookcase that met my criteria. They were either way too big for my modest living room, too dark in color, or simply too ugly. One very helpful salesperson explained to me that bookcases are out of fashion at the moment. I was dumb-founded.
Luckily for me, one of the stores had a fantastic sale on leather furniture, so here I sit on my new leather armchair, my feet up on the super comfortable new matching leather ottoman while I browse online to see if I can find that most elusive of creatures, a bookcase!
2 comments:
I know what you mean, Anne. People are going the built-in route with bookcases, or coming up with clever storage solutions like the ever popular oversized lattice work for shelving. I have these crummy prefab bookcases that are overflowing and falling apart since I've moved with them five times. Until bookcases come back into style, my heroes will just have to deal ;-)
I found a small one at Office Depot.
Maybe they have a better selection online.
We need to smack the crap out of whoever said bookcases are going out of style. Bibliophiles and book manics need to start a revolt.
My new office has a honkin' big industrial sheves just waiting for all my books.
Hey, I can pretty that thing up.
Hope you find what you're looking for.
Hugs, Tambra
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