As many of you know, we recently moved into a new apartment.  It was not obvious where we should hang our icons.  There was very little usable wall space.  I identified a corner of my office as an ideal icon corner;  unfortunately, the corner is windowed on both sides.

I played around for weeks with the idea of using some sort of book or display shelf to make use of the corner space, but nothing worked; the icons would always be too high or behind glass — inaccessible.

I kept envisioning myself knocking nails into the back of a bookshelf and hanging icons on them; over time, my thoughts turned to theater flats.  If only I could get a flat that was made of solid wood, I’d have the wall that I was missing.

All the meanwhile, in our corridor, there was an interior door dating back probably to the construction of the building in 1885, or possibly to the renovation in 1912.  I knew that it had been abandoned there months before we moved in and did not seem to be going anywhere soon.  The other night I brought it into the apartment and propped it up against a wall.  The next day I went to the hardware store and bought some large shelf brackets and screws.  The end result:

Alexandros' and Elisavet's Iconostasion

As you can see below, it is very much a real door with hinges and a door handle:

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The door is held upright with four large, metal shelf hinges, and part of a broken bookshelf serves as a table:

Iconostasion Hinges

Various details:

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Fanitsa's 2009 Christmas tree.

Fannie and Alexandros review "Project Runway."

Co-conspirators?

Alexandros reading ancient Roman inscriptions on a church wall in Trastevere, standing near bridges in Venice, and getting to know the Coliseum cats a little better.