From Bookshelves to Cabinets

This post is a shout out to my brother-in-law, Jackie, who--along with his lovely wife--came to our house Saturday to install some doors for us. Wood is what Jackie does for a living, and he does a good job of it.

When Jackie was here during the holidays for the Sweasy Family Christmas, I mentioned to him that we really liked all of the bookshelves we had in the basement, but that we'd really like some doors on them. We have a limited number of books we want to display, and the other items we placed on the shelves made the basement look a wee bit cluttered. I don't have any good "before" shots of the bookshelves, but here is a shot of one of my younger daughter's friends (she's playing the Nintendo Wii Fit game) taken at my daughter's birthday back in January. You can see the bookshelves behind her:

What you CAN'T see in the photo above is the ugliest part of the entire wall--the area just underneath the TV. Wires hang down to where all of the electronic devices (the Wii, our Roku Player, a DVD player, and a DVR) sit underneath the TV. So Jackie went downstairs before dinner and measured those shelves, and Saturday he came up and installed them. This is what the finished product looks like:

We're very please. So thanks, Jackie and Ann. And if anyone in the Lexington/Nicholasville area is looking for someone to do built in cabinetry, desks, that kind of stuff, I know your guy!