Looks like Supa’s Home Dec Week is rounding into Week Two!

Look, a book burning!

Just kidding. Remember I told you I would show you the fireplace thing? Here you go. We had too many books and a nonfunctioning chimney and really, it just made sense.

Iain took the shelves from some old particleboard bookcase and trimmed them down to fit between the bricks and just slid them in. Then I loaded them up with books.

Here’s the same idea in a post on Apartment Therapy

That empty dead space always creeped me out, a big vacant hole in the living room. Now it’s filled with books, which are one of my favorite things.