Vila always came across to me as a tv personality more than a craftsman. Ask This Old House is aired on HGTV and the is a pretty good program for brief "how to" instructions. I used to watch The New Yankee Workshop with Norm Abram a lot. My only problem with that one was Norm had every high dollar tool a man could dream for. I could do what he did if I could afford to have a shop equipped like that. In the next year I plan on building and installing new kitchen cabinets but before starting that project going to convert an unused bedroom into a library/computer room with one wall to wall, ceiling to floor book shelves. Both projects will be quite challenging.
Hammer's office has an entire wall with shelves........that was fun to outfit.
Our house was a model and knick-knacks were already decorating everything. The framed pictures of people I don't know were much better looking than our pictures. I learned the 'odd number' rule......Items on a display shelf should be in 1-3-5-7- etc. items and not an even number. It does look more balanced.
There's clocks in there, small groupings of books, ceramic pieces, crystal, artificial plants, etc. The very lowest of shelves is a system of cloth lined baskets (women know what I mean) that holds his office papers and records and keeps them out of sight.......it's basically the overflow that the desk doesn't hold.
One of the open areas of the shelves is big enough for a nice size TV.
The shelves are good looking and serve both functional and decorative purpose. They make a much better "accent wall" than just painting a 4th wall a different color.
Good luck with the project.
