CELLAR STAIRS

 Sunday blizzard left us with a decision

do we lay around and wait on the Oscars?

or

do we tackle the cellar project!

this old house has plenty of issues

in this corner was a set of stairs

stairs to nowhere...

I would assume this old cellar was a root cellar back in the day

and the stairs led to the outside

and when they built the house, they closed up the old cellar door 

and made an entrance from the inside

but they forgot to take out the stairs

so we did

and then we had a moment of illumination

to take out the plain old shelves here

and replace them with the stairs we were tearing out!

some of the pieces were only good to make the fire burn longer

and on this very blustery winter day, I was grateful for that!

I was wondering if there were still live spiders here?

thank goodness for the very unscared Mr. PV

old dead spiders were an easy fix 

there were only 5 shelves and the thickness of the old wood makes its own statement

so even though I love the shelves and had plenty of brackets...I just stayed with 5

we cleaned them up with soap and water

(down came the rain and washed the spiders out!)

it was a fun day to take everything off the hearth and think about a different look

this monk has spent years outside on my various porches

and these old items were stacked away in other places

the books came with the house

(I bet spiders lived in the pages)

I like to put my books in color order

they look a little delicate...but my goodness...they are very very old

it could be that someone long ago sat on these stairs and read them

I like old things...do you?

I am pretty sure that the people who walked on these steps 

have been in heaven a very long time by now

I have to wonder if they got a chuckle out of us using that wonderful old wood 

to replace perfectly ok shelves

to stack old stuff on