One of the cleverest transformations inside the church involves something that once filled its main room: the wooden pews. Whitney didn't simply throw them away when the building stopped functioning as a place of worship. Instead, she had the seating turned into bookshelves. What was once a place for a congregation to sit now holds books and objects from her own life.
It's an especially fitting choice for someone who enjoys arranging a bookshelf. In a separate decorating video, Whitney showed followers how she mixes upright books with horizontal stacks and adds small personal treasures. She thinks about changes in height, color and texture rather than filling every shelf in exactly the same way. In a building with so much history, those little arrangements add another personal layer.
There is a practical side to the decision, too. Reusing the pews meant keeping timber with a direct connection to the original church instead of replacing it with something anonymous. The shelves can change whenever Whitney finds another book or a curious object worth displaying, while the wood itself stays put. And the pews provided enough material for more than the book collection. Wait until you see what became of the rest.