Just because :)
http://www.desiretoinspire.net/blog/2010/4/15/reader-request-bookshelves.html
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Wow, those look so cool. I will admit to being a sucker for floor to ceiling bookcases.
However, the thing that always gets me when I see those huge bookcases is where would I put new books plus, how would I find anything when they are organized by color.
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LOVE these. Thanks for the great link JuliaJayne!
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AWESOME! what a feast for the eyes!
thanks for the link.Posted 1 year ago # -
Beautiful, I could spend hours looking at those rooms, imagining myself in a big ole comfy chair with a footrest, or climbing up a ladder looking at all those cool books. Some might think it clutter, but I loves my books. I feel calm in a room like that, as long as the books are not all haphazard. To me they are art.
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A few days ago, I dusted all my books and bookshelves. I'd let them go for far too long and it was a hot, dirty task, involving lots of ladder climbing.
Those photos of houses with extensive bookshelves don't inspire me; they terrify me. One would have to spend WAY too much time and energy keeping them dusted. Unless one had a cleaner to do the dirty work. In which case the bookshelves boast, "I'm rich enough that I don't have to do my own dusting!"
I want most of my books in e. The few that are lovable as physical objects would be housed safely in ONE glass-fronted bookcase. Sigh. It's gonna take me years to digitize all my books.
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Those are really cool - I love a room filled with books - but I would never have so much open shelving in my home. I am happy to have spent the extra $$ for glass-fronted bookcases and next-to-no dusting.
I may have to put up a little photo album, on my blog, of my bookcases. I talk about the damn things so often. :-)
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Ooooh pretty! I always wanted to add an archive/salon/library room to my apartment and have it look exactly like the white room from Sköna Hem (7th picture), complete with ladder and everything. Maybe if I ask nicely enough, my neighbor will happily vacate his living room (who needs a living room, anyway) so I can put an opening into the wall and... *dreamy sigh*
If you liked that, you'll like this too: There was a link on SwissMiss the other day, to a site dedicated only to bookshelves, Bookshelf Porn.
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*sits by Zora on the "OMG dusting all of that!" bench, offers tea*
It is lovely, and thanks to JuliaJayne for putting up the link! e-books are better for me given my visual limitations, but I can appreciate it aesthetically while being quietly glad that it's not a realistic option.
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Thanks for the link, JuliaJayne.
If I'd looked at those pics a few years ago, I would have thought "oooh, I want something like that." 'Cause, ya know, I did want a wall or two or three full of bookshelves -- an in-home library.
When I look at those pics now, I feel overwhelmed and slightly claustrophobic. I might even have sat back in my chair a bit when I saw the first pic there. There are just too many books -- too many to keep track of, too many to dust.
I still love my books, but I no longer want to keep so many of them.
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I feel that way myself, GardenGirl.
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I was homeschooled all during high school and my brothers and sister have been for a few years longer. Mom and Dad put together a beautiful one-room library to hold all the text books, literature and such. To be honest, I have never thought of it actually needing dusting until I have read these posts. I don’t think it has ever been dusted.
Hmm.
Hmmmmmmm.
Now I’m going to go down and actually look.Posted 1 year ago # -
Grabbing my copy of "Home Comforts" (please may this be available as an electronic version soon: I'd forgotten that the print is so darned small!), the recommendation is that the tops of books stored on open shelves should be dusted every few weeks and vacuum-cleaned once a year.
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My parents have a library at their home, the one I grew up in. Well it's really more of a family room or less formal living space.
My mother loves the books and the room, but loathes the constant dusting. The easiest way she's found is to vacuum the shelves and books. Of course she doesn't have tons of knick-knacks on them either, just books.
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More bookshelf love from D*S sneek peeks: sneak peek: best of book storage :o)
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Thanks for the link, trillie. Some of those designs I really like, and others bring on the claustrophobia, but either way, it's fun to see all the various arrangements.
(I am still paring down my book collection.)
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Ya know, just because a room is full of books, it doesn't mean the books are decorative. Most of those spaces in sneak peek are kinda ... ugh. I mean, I LOVE my books, but I try my best to make them unobtrusive in my space. It's not all HERE'S MY GIANT WALL O' BOOKS! lol
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@ chacha1, "GIANT WALL O' BOOKS" is so funny. I favor a more subtle display, too. And I really don't get the color-coding thing; much more practical (at least for most of us, I'd assume) to categorize books by subject.
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I guess the color-coding thing works if you are a designer. Or if you have only one case of books and you know exactly what they all are and so you don't have to put them alpha by author, or grouped by subject, or whatever.
Really think most people read a lot into what's on display. In the sense of, a new friend could come in to your home and look through your bookshelf and learn a whole heckuva lot about you; if the shelf is desperately random or overstuffed ... or on the flip side, clearly arranged only for show ... or interspersed with a collection of travel souvenirs .. or with old newspapers stuffed into corners ... it's telling a very revealing story about the person who owns it.
One must always be just a bit skeptical of photos that have appeared in design books or magazines, because they have generally been at least partially staged. Photos that people post on the innernets, though, are like a little snapshot of the inside of their head IMO.
Posted 1 year ago # -
i never thought about the dusting.
maintaining it all would strip the pleasure right out of it for me.
viva la kindle!Posted 1 year ago #
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