It's the little things...

...that make a difference!

Here's the cupboard and bookcase in the corner of our study. They are separate items, but we have stacked them to save space.

Ever since I have owned them - some 15 years - the spacing of the fixed shelves has irritated me. There wasn't enough height in any of the shelves to stand ring binders (or books of that size) on end.

So, at last, today I got out an assortment of tools, dismantled both pieces of furniture, and after a little bit of drilling and tweaking, was able to reassemble them with the shelves spaced as you see them now - two shelves spaced with enough height for ring binders, and a shorter shelf height on top for paperbacks. Perfect. The cupboard below, which only had one shelf, now has two. Even more perfect. The whole job took about two hours.

Now, why didn't I do this 15 years ago...??