Since moving into the new apartment, our books about been in serious disarray.  We had three large book shelves and one medium-sized book shelf in our old apartment, plus random groupings of books around the house.  Here, there is only room for one large book shelf.

Upon moving in we got creative, tucking books under desks, on top of dressers, under night stands; all in little mini-shelves made of crates.  Still, we had four large boxes of books hiding in the closet and nowhere to put them.  Since then, we’ve been purging books like mad.  We sold a bunch to friends and the ones we didn’t sell were slowly lugged to Rustbelt Books, a local used book store, and were bought for almost nothing.

While I thought it would be difficult to get rid of so many of my books, in the end I am completely satisfied.  I have a much more refined collection and am way less overwhelmed when browsing for something to read. Less is definitely more, especially when living in a small one bedroom.

Tonight, after selling the last batch of 14 books to Rustbelt for $10, we did some major book re-arranging.  While we haven’t gotten everything in order, I’m pretty confident saying we now have room for all of our books (outside of the closet).  Though, with both of our book-aquiring habits, I’m not sure how long it will last.

Above is a section of the one bookshelf we have left, which towers over our tiny livingroom.

-Eva