A honey-do project

I’m sure you’ve heard the term “honey-do project,” referring to a project a husband does for his wife to make some aspect of the home easier to handle. Well, Don just did one for me.

This is our antique hoosier cabinet. Don and I bought it as newlyweds and it’s my favorite piece of furniture we own. The little lamp has a tiny bulb in it, and it’s always on as a sort of night light.

Since moving into our current home, I’ve been storing my cookbooks on top.

While it’s otherwise a fine place to store the cookbooks, there’s one major problem: I’m short. The hoosier is tall. So whenever I needed a cookbook, I had to use a step stool.

This is nothing unusual. This house is made for giants. It seems everything is juuuuust out of reach for a shortie like me.

So finally I asked Don if he could make me a shelf for the cookbooks in a kitchen corner underneath the cabinet.

And, dear man that he is, he did. At first I was just thinking of a shelf on brackets, but he thought the load of books would be too much weight on the wall, so instead he made a stand-alone shelf.

Here it is, fitted under the cabinet. I couldn’t put the cookbooks on it right away because the glue had to dry.

Here are the cookbooks, installed in their new home.

Honestly, this is the first time in over 20 years I’ve had the cookbooks within easy reach! Even in our old home, the cookbooks were stored in a cabinet nook near the stove that was hard to access simply because they were juuuust a bit too high for me to reach, especially the upper shelf.

So having easily accessible cookbooks is a luxury indeed!

I cleaned off the top of the hoosier and moved a couple of pretty-but-functional items there instead: the coffee grinder and the butter churn.

What a honey-do project!