Still going strong

When Brian and I first met in the early 90’s we made a rather big purchase for us in those days, we bought some IVAR shelving from IKEA. We wanted to use it as Brian’s bookshelves, as he already had rather a lot of books back then.

Gradually, as the years passed, the shelves have been used in a number of different rooms - the lounge, bedroom our garden room, in the attic and more recently in my laundry room. However, we needed more storage in the atelier, to get some stacked boxes off the floor and emptied. The particular part of the wall we wanted to use for shelving, we realised, suited the IVAR shelving perfectly. The IVAR had seen better days though, and we wanted the shelves to look smart, so Brian got to work on cheering them up.

With a bit of sanding, Brian has made them look as good as new. Who would have thought, when we bought them 30 years ago, that they would still be going strong today.