Fhutonix, part 2, Armful of books

In my practice of saving things before I know their future use, the arms of ye olde wooden frame futon were saved on the porch. This is despite their irregular shape and resistance to full dis-assembly along with the rest of the futon frame (explained here).  There they stayed, tucked behind a card table and other porch detritus until Creative Roommate got on a cleaning kick and saw a clever way to expand our book storage capacity.  Let me explain how it happened.
The apartment has a rather creatively configured shelving space in the living room. At one point in the history of this building it must have been involved in doorway activities, but is now sealed up with some ridges for removable shelving having been added.  There is a large space at the bottom that has served as random storage for packing boxes, box fans, and other oddly-shaped boxy things. Convenient, but not decorative.
Until it became this.....

Our lovely additional book shelf

 The clever solution hit upon by Creative Roommate was to use both futon arm/end-pieces, but space them so that the depth matches the above shelves.

No one can see that there is a gap in the middle.

The futon parts and wooden floor below have a similar stain, so they almost blend together for an interesting effect.  A lucky coincidence for this freestyle project.

The books will be re-arranged as part of a book shelf makeover, watch for that project in a future post.