This cupboard served originally as a computer cabinet. It was far too heavy and awkward to negotiate the stairs leading to our bonus room, so it found its resting place right inside our back door. A plan to repurpose this cabinet was present in the wee hours of a winter morning...it would become an inviting little nook for the grandchildren to read a book, work a puzzle, or color with crayons and colored pencils. There was extra room on the top shelf for my collection of "friends"...those lovely old books, guilty of enticing me to fall in love with reading. I love to open them and inhale the smell of another time, a life a hundred years ago. It is a particular treat to find the signature of the owner, frequently written in pencil, but a special treasure if the name is signed in ink....a quill, a fountain pen...always makes me wonder. I love to find old children's book of nursery rhymes or stories, and I was completely over the moon when I came across two volumes from a set similar to one we were given as children. It brought back such a flood of memories, as that set had long since gone to another home.
I want this cupboard to be a place where a love for books is cultivated.
