to secretly wish we could just buy some bloody

[OrmRenewed]

new book shelves?

We need some shelves. Now! We have about 30 boxes of books and nowhere for them to go. And until they have been unpacked we also have no dining room DH is a carpenter. And he will without a doubt make some lovely shelves. But as he is dithering about debating which timber to face them with and how big they should be, they may not exist until after christmas.

Ikea have some nice ones They could be built and up in less than a day.

Wish I had married an impractical man, or at least a practical man with a greater sense of urgency and a lesser need for perfection.

I have become a total DIY bore recently, and have learned how to plaster a wall after watching a Youtube tutorial, and how to tile floors and walls. I've saved hundreds in labour costs as a result. I am lucky that DP is pretty handy, and happy to show me how to do stuff. I helped him fit a sprung floor in dd2's bedroom last week.

I don't even know why I'm telling you this. Just showing off, I suppose

Oh just order the nice Ikea ones. You can never get someone with a skill like that to sort themselves out at home - FIL was an electrician, MIL tells me often how shite their electrics were. DH is a computer bod, now I pay someone to sort our PC issues out.

Orm just buy some Ikea Billy - they are so fab, we have loads here and they are all groaning under the weight of all the books we have but they last and have survived being moved around the house and taken down to allow carpets to be laid and everything.

It won't cost you much, they are v.cheap and then DH can build you the perfect bookcases at his leisure because such an important project should be rushed you know

FakePlasticTrees - I feel your pain. DH is in IT and we therefore have some vastly complex system set up for DVD watching which involves them all being loaded onto once PC, backed-up to the server (yes we have one ) and then 'streamed' to the PC that is linked to the TV.
Needless to say this goes wrong from time to time and there is much swearing and outrage until it is fixed!
What drives me mad is that this task becomes immediately more important than anything else on the to-do list.
Me 'darling your mother will be here in an hour, please can you clear your shite things off the spare bed'
DH 'Not now, I told you the PC/router/server/network is broken and I must fix it'

I feel your woe, OrmRenewed. I've been asking DH for new shoe rack shelves for Aaaaaagggggeeesss. He made our existing shoe racks, fine, I am glad he's practical. But why won't he crack on with providing us with much needed additional storage?

He'd be furious if I went and bought a shoe rack, sigh.

We bought the billy bookcases but added the glass doors... they look great and I don't have to dust the books! Mind you they are still stacked several deep in each...:)

My DH is great, but a perfectionist, so when he finally gets round to doing DIY he has to have the right tool, the perfect wood, he even measures the distances to hang pictures perfectly FFS!

Recently my step sister and I sorted my dad's house, as my step mum literally dropped dead while they were decorating and we went around banging picture nails in at random. Looked great but I couldn't help but imagine my DH standing behind me and shuddering...!

Ragged - just buy some to 'spare him the trouble'.

rofl Orm.
I just read every word of your OP to my dh and you have made his evening, frankly.
He rushes into everything which sometimes drives me nuts (when he doesn't think about things enough and buys the wrong thing for instance) but he did an extra 5m of shelving this weekend and our dining room is now clear. He is now as smug as a bug in a rug.

We have lots of Billy too.
(though when I look at them it is ME who is smug because of the time we had a Billy race and I won because he hadn't read the instructions and tried to put a bit on upside-down.)

You don't notice the bookshelves anyway, they're covered in books.

I'd buy the IKEA bookshelves. Maybe it will give him a gildy-on.

This place is brilliant, more expensive than Ikea but way better quality (imo).

www.shelvingsystem.co.uk/

Your DH is a carpenter