After two and a half  years, Dede and I were running out of room in our combined books-and-rugs store.  So, we knocked down some walls to the adjacent storefront and doubled our space. Most sections doubled in size, and therefore in selection, most notably the children's sections, art, antiques & collectibles, literature, and women's studies. I was busy building bookshelves for a couple of months, oh rapture! Here we are, hard at work. The new space did not come with a beautiful floor, and since the rugs need proper display too, we figured we better show them off on a decent hard wood floor. Believe it or not, there really is a floor under all this mess. But we had to remove industrially-glued teal carpeting, two layers of tile, and nasty tarpaper first. Then we sanded and stained the floor, and wow, it looks like a whole new place!
 

Then we took down the wall that divided our "old" space and the new space. (Notice that beautiful floor under the sheet!) It was exciting to see the spaces united, both with the same color walls and floors!, and then the real project began: building new shelves, moving bookshelves (including two 18-foot sections), and filling them all up with, what else?, books!!
 
 

Here are some friends of mine helping out during my infamous "Tear Down the Wall Party." The wall that you can see behind the bookshelves is the wall that we removed in the above picture, so we had to take books off the shelves first, before we could put them back on the shelves...
 
 

and there's my brother on the right helping to attach the two 18 foot long bookshelf units to the wall (so they don't go anywhere!). Look, the books are already starting to multiply!