I had a smallish bookshelf in the kitchen where I kept my most-used cookbooks. The floodwater of Hurricane Sandy tipped it over and all those books got saturated with filthy seawater. One of my friends owned a bookstore in Maine, and helped many of my other friends find replacement for some of the older books, which was very useful. I now have wall-mounted bookshelves, and I need to put up a couple more,because I keep getting more cookbooks. And I prefer to have them right there in the kitchen, because when I had all my cookbook in the spare room, it was always a pain to go look up what I needed. So any natural disaster would have to break the house before it got to my cookbooks.
When they replaced the sheetrock after the storm, I had them paint the kitchen the same shade of off-white as the rest of the rooms (it had been an annoying dark yellow when we moved here). My kitchen bookshelves are plain white ones from Ikea, and I use the shiny chrome 3/4 circle brackets also from Ikea. WHen they replaced my kitchen appliances (destroyed by the flood), they gave me all stainless-steel ones, so the chrome shelf brackets match the rest of the kitchen.
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Date: 2022-03-28 05:38 am (UTC)When they replaced the sheetrock after the storm, I had them paint the kitchen the same shade of off-white as the rest of the rooms (it had been an annoying dark yellow when we moved here). My kitchen bookshelves are plain white ones from Ikea, and I use the shiny chrome 3/4 circle brackets also from Ikea. WHen they replaced my kitchen appliances (destroyed by the flood), they gave me all stainless-steel ones, so the chrome shelf brackets match the rest of the kitchen.