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The library might just be my new favourite room in our house.

The Boy does not have the library you might expect of a teenager. He has the library of a middle-aged military history buff. 🙂 But as I have done the bulk of the shelving, I have made sure to include some of his favourite YA reads alongside the reference books.

There is always room for Harry Potter and a collection of pop figures.

Each time I am in the library, which is a lot right now, I tweak the contents of each shelf. Some shelves I am now happy with, some will be tweaked for some time yet.

The trinkets on the shelves all have meaning for The Boy – a cuddly Snowy from when we went to Brussels, a photo from our trip to Wembley belongs on the football shelf, a yellow cab from a trip to New York City, the only trophy that The Boy has ever received and the quick-build aircraft he has made over the years.

Plus there are two mugs holding pens and pencils, and a small cork globe studded with pins showing everywhere The Boy has been to.

The best thing about the new unit is that there is still plenty of space for more books, which is all The Boy really cares about. 🙂

There’s now a standard lamp in the corner, which can be rotated to offer the best light, and two IKEA picture shelves.

I may have drunk beer in the library after a serious bout of tweaking on one of the hottest days of the year …

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