books do furnish a ... barn

While Caro was painting the roughcast walls a colour almost indistinguishable from cement (but they look very nice, I hasten to add, really they do), I was sawing up bits of pine cladding to stop the books falling out of the end of the bookshelf. I cannot imagine what the design spec was for this bit of furniture: perhaps the designer had never owned a book? The shelves are wide enough for us to put books in from both sides, as we have, but the bookshelf relies on diagonal wire struts to keep it rigid - it's meant to go up against a wall. These do look just slightly odd.

Here it is:



Luckily the book titles are too small to recognise (I hope) as it is a very random collection, grabbed from anywhere. Books in the farmhouse get a little damp in the winter, so this is rehab for them. They are drying out.