The local Oak Furniture outlet was having its annual Going-Out-Of-Business Sale today, & I picked up 2, 4 foot tall barrister’s bookshelves.
Solid oak, glass windows, the works!
I’ve wanted some for years.
Happy dance! 
I am so jealous of you right now. :mad:
Enjoy them!
Great quality stuff, & only $49 each! 
green with jealousy
Good on you, Bosda!
Oh, happy day!
Where do you live? 'cause I have to drive down to that store and get me a few of those bookcases!!
Oooo…I’d love some nice bookshelves.
If I were not the barrister something else I’d like to be!
If I were not the barrister, an ENGINE DRIVER me!
With a Chugga-chug-chug and a Chugga-chug-chug and a Chugga-chug all day long!
With a Chugga-chug-chug and a Chugga-chug-chug I’d sing this merry song!
Excellent work Busta!
Mine are over a hundred years old. And until I had kids they had the original leaded glass floppy door thingies. I hate my kids sometimes.
Mine is over a hundred years old but the glass is not leaded, I fear. It is glass, though. My grandmother’s.
So … what’s so great about these bookshelves?
What’s NOT to like?
Any schlub can buy a couple cinderblocks and a plank an, “presto!” a bookshelf.
But these daddies have junk that moves. What thinker can resist that?
Plus, they look kinda classy…just the thing some of need in order to look…uh…more…classy.
Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
And Barrister’s Bookcases are cool because of the special glass doors that swing up & in, & keep the dust out.
But they’re pricey as all get out, usually, & old ones never get on the market.
They get left to other law firms that treasure antique shelves.
Ooooh, so how many shelves in all? How tall and how deep?
(jealous jealous jealous)
3 shelves per case, 2 cases.
They had another 2, but they were scratched.
Maybe they’ll have more at next years Going Out Of Business Sale.
Now you’ll have somewhere nice to put your colouring books. Sorry, I’m just jealous.
My mother has her grandmother’s barrister shelves. I don’t even like antiques and I covet them. They’re beautiful.
Those are so classy and I am so jealous. Want to trade for my cinderblock/plywood masterpiece?
What I really want are wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling bookshelves with a big sliding ladder. I’d put the books I use most often in the most inaccessible places, just to be able to climb the ladder all the time to impress people.
“TV Guide? Just a second, that’s on the top shelf…”
Norm Abrams of “This Old House” and “New Yankee Workshop” fame did a program on building your own barrister bookcase that he copied from an antique original. I’ve got the video and have every intention of building my own set soon for the few special books I have.
I’m also going to put together a slightly larger version to hold and display my guns, complete with slide-out trays. This way, I can store a couple of guns in each “bay.” I think it will be nice to tilt/lift/slide open the display door, then slide out the tray that the guns are resting in/on.
Oo-oo-oo! I’m soooooo jealous. I’ve been wanting legals forever.
My grandma had some, but I inherited the fine China. 
My parents have said if they knew I was more “furniture inclined” they would have divvied things up differently when she died. Granted they were still wise in the way they divided the property. I got all the fragile stuff, my cousins got – and by now have surely destroyed (or shudder painted) – the antique oak furniture. The stuff I inhereted at 13 would have been completely smashed by now if left in my cousins’ care.
Still, I’d have loved those bookcases.
Oh, and I don’t think my grandma’s had the leaded glass, but they did have the whosis-whatsis shelf. You know, the shelf-thing you pull out so you can open a book, read, and take notes.
I want! I want! I want!