The built-in bookcase idear
So I was reading thru my Terence Conran 'Ultimate House Book' today and I came up with a brilliant way to fix those weird protrusions in the wall in my house: turn them into built-in bookcases. The way the house was built there is a skinny brick vent that goes up the walls behind there. Whoever built these houses made that part of the wall wider for aesthetic reasons. It kind of looks like a fireplace should be there or a mantle of some kind at least. But their hollow walls on either side of the brick vent.
It would be great to knock out the plaster on either side, expose the vent/chimney thing and fill that space back in with built in bookcases that go floor to ceiling. Not that this is anything I can worry about now of course. It'll probably never happen. I'm still worried about things like water and electricity on the second floor. But if I had all the time and money in the world... Well, I probably wouldn't even live in Baltimore if that were the case.
Anyway, I love my Terence Conran book. I drool over it.