I took the simple way out. I built an addition on the house. The front of it is a 42 foot long hallway with floor to ceiling bookshelves on both sides - one side for regular books and one for paperbacks. The hallway ends in a 10’ high library with bookshelves made for big art books. There’s another 10 bookcases in other scattered rooms, and the books that don’t fit go into boxes in the closets. I’m DESPERATE for room for books.
I still have 8 children at home, and at the earliest opportunity ... 15 years from now? ... we’ll move to an Independent Living apartment. I was 45 when Kathleen was born, and my husband was 49.