Take the week - take a month. You may hopefully learn to love it. Personally, I would love to have that wall in my house! I think it is beautiful and adds a nice texture. If you are set on doing shelves go industrial and leave about 1/3 of the cinder block on the left showing. Don't attempt to cover it up. Accentuate it and enjoy it.

It must be a bit disappointing to find cinder blocks...It would certainly steal beauty from the natural bricks, and too many of them would not do their job. My advice is to avoid using fake tiles.Instead, it recycles wood or natural plaster or a combination of the two.Check out some ideas for natural grooming here

4 year old post Peter.

Luc what did you end up doing?

When I used to read normal books I would give them to friends or donate them elsewhere. Now I am totally digital. I have a file folder on my computer where I keep my books. I mark the file names with "read" once I am finished with it. If it is a good book I will move it to another folder as a possible reread. Books are organized by genre then author. Much easier and since I hate clutter it is amazing for the organization of my house. Plus I keep my ereader in my purse and take it with me everywhere.

I am rereading some of them.

I love to give away books that I have read to my friends for free. But I really like to re-read some books several times, because I constantly find there some new meanings that I have not seen before. You can find this become about how important the theme of materialism is in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. I never thought so deeply about this book when I read it.