Well, that moved along much more quickly than I expected.  We had a weekend with no real plans so my husband kept asking “what’s next” and as long as I kept coming up with things for him to do, he just kept doing them – he’s awesome like that!

It still looks a bit of a shambles, but we got SO much sorted out.  The bookcases are cleared of any books that will be going.  One of the tall bookcases has disappeared upstairs and the purple bookcase you can now see is in place.  It’s pretty empty so far, just a few old Enid Blyton books and some others from my childhood.  The remaining tall bookcase is practically empty – baby books are down the bottom and a few photos and ornaments up the top (plus a couple more bits and pieces that still need to disappear upstairs.  A bit more bookcase swapping went on and the books of ours that we are hanging on to are now either in a small bookcase behind the desk you can just see in the right corner of the photo or in a narrow bookcase now sitting in our upstairs hallway.

Still a bit to be done, but we can start to see a bit better how it will look when we get it all finished.  Now it just needs to me sort out a few boxes (hiding behind the recliner – shhh!) so we can move on to the next steps!