Library Vision

Closing on my house has made me so excited. Its going to be so fun to decorate and be in my own house. Yesterday Kyle and I spent 2 hours just walking through Home Depot (next week will be Lowe's) it was relaxing and fun we got some new ideas and revamped others. Kyle is much more concerned with the porch and fire pit he wants outside. And I want to know the exact paint of all the rooms. The Library for we really do need one was food inspired. I had a basket of bright green granny Smith apples and Cuties (clementines). I will be painting the walls with a fresh coat of white (don't worry I'm not painting it orange I'm not that crazy) with black bookshelves that will line the walls. For my green and orange I have some awesome paintings that will go above the black shelves. At an estate sale I found the perfect green high wing-back chair for $20 its amazing I won't have to refurbish it or anything. I'd like to get three chairs for the room that are all older styled since the colors are so modern I want to tame it with antique furniture and odds and end. I have some green depression glass bowls and vases I bought on St. Patrick's Day I will incorporate into the decor. I meant to take a picture of the chair and forgot I really need to work on that.  

Is There a Support Group For This?

I love estate sales (not yard/garage sales they're usually junk) but old people getting rid of all their stuff usually ends up with really cool finds such as my awesome granny smith apple green high wing back chair for $20. Great right? Well you see Kyle and I have this problem, while most people collect stamps, coins or other little trinkets we collect books. Not just a few as of a week ago we had over 600 titles in our possession; all of which are cataloged categorized (fiction alphabetically by author and nonfiction in the Dewey decimal system) this collection does not include magazines, workbooks, or other such materials nor duplicate copies. When we first got married I knew I had this problem and after an estate sale learned my dearest husband did too, when he purchased a Freemason's life collection of books. To be honest that collection was a little odd but had some very interesting titles that made their way onto my bookshelves. 600 titles not so bad. I was home schooled I tons of people (with oodles of children) that have thousands of books. The problem is that they are not in their twenties and they have kids. If that was the end I would say not a problem. But when you see a bookstore and must go in and always come out with a stack of books you have a bit of a problem. Now for the real issue: this weekend there was an estate sale, tons of books. Kyle put a bid on all the books left over after the weekend that we would pick up Monday. Well since he has a job that requires him to work Monday the we he talked about ended up being a me (and my siblings that did such a great job). Before I detail I must say in Kyle's defense he thought it would be a car load (in my Subaru wagon) however when books are spread amongst three stories in every room of a minimum of 1800 square feet (the house was larger but I'm not sure how big) house and garage estimating can be difficult. It took three trips with my mom's minivan seats taken out stacked to the top to clear out those books. I started counting the books and gave up less than a third of the way through when I got to 2000. Granted with multiple titles and ones we don't need or want(not really into self help, needle point, or subpar science fiction) there are only about a thousand books. So in one day we have more than doubled our collection and now my husband is suggesting when we close on the house (oh yeah we're buying a house, perhaps another entry) that we do it to make some extra money on a regular basis, crazy man. Okay, just to clarify Kyle is not the only one after saying he was sorry I said its okay I needed these to fill the bookshelves I'm going to buy for the front room plus the sorting of keep sell was my job (plus my list of books we "need" because they're classics, out of print, ect.) My only question is where do the book buyers anonymous support group meeting?