Step 1: Take inspiration from CS Lewis and decide to create magic wardrobe.
Step 2: Resolve to call your armoire a 'wardrobe.'
Step 2: Haul out the bell-bottoms, hot pants, pill-box hats, poodle skirts, Nehru jackets, tie-dye shirts, polyester pantsuits, coats bulging with shoulder pads, and other vintage items hanging in your armoire. Fish out that snood swimming at its bottom. Clear the whole place out and determine to wear bravely your old new-found period apparel in public or to give it away.
Step 3: Scour attic and basement and boxes beneath beds to find all your precious long-lost books.
Step 4: Spread said books out on the floor of the largest room in your house so it looks like you're re-tiling with a literary theme. Open windows and allow the poor books to breathe in the open air that wafts through. If it's winter, keep windows closed but at least let the Glade-scented inside air do its thing.
Step 5: While books are breathing, measure your wardrobe.
Step 6: Joyfully sashay to your local thrift store with the intention of making your wallet happy and the owners of the store, too, in this rotten economy. Buy stinky old bookcase.
Step 7: Rope a neighbor into hauling the bookcase home for you.
Step 8: Attack the bookcase with Clorox and sandpaper and staining supplies.
Step 9: Place your fabulous 'new' bookcase in your wardrobe.
Step 10: Load books onto the bookcase.
Step 11: See the happy books in their proper habitat.
Step 12: Close the wardrobe doors and decorate with pictures of Jane Austen, photos from various movie adaptations of novels, bookmarks, etc.
Step 13: Bask in that satisfied sense of having sheltered your babies from dust and mildew, provided a comfortable home for them with pretty aesthetics, and allowed new-found accessibility to loving readers.
Step 14: Visit occasionally and transport yourself to new worlds Lucy Pevensie-style via your new magic wardrobe.
Step 15: Buy more books!
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