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Our cottage is based around a Georgian smallholder's cottage. The house now is really only 15% Georgian and 85% more modern (through Victorian to 1980s).
A room off the Georgian dining room we intend to turn into a library. We will have a window seat, lots of open bookshelves and some with glass doors.
I am sure that it is possible to spend tens of thousands on building a nice library. However, we cannot afford that and I am looking at ways of doing a nice job for reasonable cost.
I understand that library shelving is traditionally made of hard wood. However, to do what I want in hard wood will be thousands.
My current thinking is trying to obtain some old pine church pews and cut them up. Then paint or stain / varnish the shelves when made. It seems that the robust seat of a pew would make good vertical "ends" and the back planks will make fine shelves.
Questions:
1. Does anyone think this is a good idea, or is using soft wood so "wrong" that I may as well not bother till I can afford hard wood?
2. Where can I buy pews cheaply? I gather they have little value secondhand.
Thanks in advance for your thoughts.
Manks
A room off the Georgian dining room we intend to turn into a library. We will have a window seat, lots of open bookshelves and some with glass doors.
I am sure that it is possible to spend tens of thousands on building a nice library. However, we cannot afford that and I am looking at ways of doing a nice job for reasonable cost.
I understand that library shelving is traditionally made of hard wood. However, to do what I want in hard wood will be thousands.
My current thinking is trying to obtain some old pine church pews and cut them up. Then paint or stain / varnish the shelves when made. It seems that the robust seat of a pew would make good vertical "ends" and the back planks will make fine shelves.
Questions:
1. Does anyone think this is a good idea, or is using soft wood so "wrong" that I may as well not bother till I can afford hard wood?
2. Where can I buy pews cheaply? I gather they have little value secondhand.
Thanks in advance for your thoughts.
Manks