'The Reading Nook'

The favourite place to be is near what we call "The Reading Nook" which has a nice area to sit and look out the window near the heater (nice on a cold snowy day). It wasn't much before:

So we decided to panel the back and cut shelves to fit. We got some basic cottage country (read: cheap) panels, primed them and cut them. Without a proper table saw, this presented a challenge:



With some fancy custom cuts by Jay for the outlets, we glued and nailed them up, painted, got the shelves up and started filling them out (we're currently accepting donations of old, classic hardcovers - we won't read them; it's all about appearances).

Before:After:

Before:

After: