I love books. My ex used to confiscate my wallet before we walked into bookstores, not because he didn’t want me to spend the money but because he felt they might overrun us. He had a point.
I think it was Cicero who said, “A room without books is like a body without a soul.” I agree. They’re like my friends and I love them all piled up on top of each other. I use them as furniture and decoration (see below.) I just kept thinking that there must be other amazing awesome solutions out there – cuz it’s a worse problem not to have books in your life than what to do with them once they’re there.
I also have this one architectural oddity in my house. Yes, it’s a door that’s been cut out and turned into a bookcase. Yes, it’s actually a functioning door too. It leads to the attic. Can’t say I recommend doing this – but it works for me and people are always asking about it.
I love the book room! Why not use your books as a room divider?
How simple-perfect a solution is this? Just take a wall get some 1x2s and glue a dowel on the front then sand/paint/mount and you have all those amazing children’s book illustrations as art and storage.
Love! Love! It’s just a bunch of tubing attached together. Can you imagine this as a whole wall? That would be so great!
This desk is built out of the only remaining books in a library that burned down. They were repurposed when the library was rebuilt. I love it!
The throne de bookage – it’s a library in a chair, otherwise known as the Bibliochaise. What’s not to love?
Not terribly practical – but I could see it as the perfect solution for someone who was really into reading philosophy – just going round and round and round….
