A few years ago, Melissa Boyes’s collection of 3,000-plus books had started to overcrowd the family house.
“When my husband told me that I wasn’t allowed to buy any more books because we didn’t have enough bookshelves … my solution was just to buy more bookshelves,” Ms Boyes jokes.
“He was worried the house’s foundations weren’t going to take it, so we decided this was a good space to set up and have somewhere safe for them to be stored.”
The “good space” is an old shed on the family property in Wodonga, in north-east Victoria, that Ms Boyes and her husband Lachlan Smith started fixing…