The Wagner Library

A year ago, Roddy said I could splurge and reorganize/decorate our office-school-craft room. I bought the paint I wanted then called in the expert, my friend Tiff, to get her opinion on fabric for the curtains and pillows.

We painted. Roddy put up floor-to-ceiling, wall-to-door shelves. I organized the office-school (curriculum)-craft supplies in these perfect sized tubs from Walmart. {They are much cheaper than baskets at $1.88 and in my opinion more durable. And since the shelves were going to be covered with curtains it didn't matter how pretty they were.}
I recovered a bunch of old pillows for a reading area and got the shelf curtains and one window curtain sewn then pretty much stalled. I don't know if school started or what but I made no progress after that.

But, summer is here again! And I am so excited about everything I've been able to accomplish in this room. Mom came over last week and we added a topper to the boring window curtain I had sewn last year. Then made a cute little window treatment for our tiny window AND made a table cover to cover the ugly gray folding table!

Also, Saturday when I got back from an all-day Bible study, Roddy surprised me with 2 new 6-shelf book cases!! I had a ton of new books that I bought at the used curriculum sale and was trying to figure out how to make them fit. Now they are oh so organized.

The first 2-shelf bookcase is for science magazines and books (non-curriculum). The second 2-shelf bookcase is for history. There are biography books and autobiographies, history readers and historical fiction.

On the first 6-shelf bookcase (top to bottom) are old readers that I've collected; classics like The Wind in the Willows, Little Men, etc.; and then books that are a series like Little House, Boxcar Children, etc.

The next big bookcase has more of my old book collection; big kid readers; Bible and character/virtue books; and little kid readers.

Here are the before and after pictures:

the view from the door...
the view from the window...the view of the wall before shelving and curtains...I still have this wall to work on. It's on the list! Otherwise, the Wagner Library is open for business!