Bookshelf Appreciation

Treen · Jun 18, 2010

I like the pictures where you can see a comfortable chair or a window seat: somewhere you can picture someone reading. It makes the spaces seem more complete and lived in, somehow.

why · Jun 18, 2010

Bookshelves should hold books and facilitate organization. They also shouldn't be out of place or in the way. Aesthetics are a subordinate concern -- bookshelves tend to look like books. There's little more pretentious than seeing La comedie humaine indenting a conspicuously eye-level shelf two up from Chicken Soup for the Soul.

Jerome · Jun 18, 2010

Originally Posted by Artisan Fan

This is magnificent:

http://bookshelfporn.com/archive

Great link, thanks. Am enjoying it a lot since I'm quite bibliophile myself. I only have a small city apartment but its quite full of books, too!

gomestar · Jun 18, 2010

we have 2 of these, love them:

rjakapeanut · Jun 18, 2010

really inspiring stuff. i'm only 19 but that's a big dream of mine -- to have a really vast library full of the books i love. i really like alot of the setups on that site. right now i don't have many books (and several of them are random fiction/fitness/clothes books) but i read each of these and i have a pretty simple book setup:

just a couple of bookends i got from office depot. i want to have bookshelf walls like in those photos one day.

Artisan Fan · Jun 19, 2010

Originally Posted by gomestar

we have 2 of these, love them:

Very cool shelves. Quite nice for a modern place.

JacobJacob · Jun 23, 2010

I once tried something like this

Looks cool but makes it a real bugger to find anything.

Connemara · Jun 23, 2010

I just love built-in shelves. Simple, clean, efficient.

binge · Jun 24, 2010

Originally Posted by JacobJacob

I once tried something like this

Looks cool but makes it a real bugger to find anything.

Not that bad really. I once had my ~2000 records sorted by color. It wasn't too tough to find things.

Reggs · Jun 24, 2010

Originally Posted by JacobJacob

I once tried something like this

Looks cool but makes it a real bugger to find anything.

With little effort, I bet you could set up some sort of excel template to look up something.

Reggs · Jun 24, 2010

Originally Posted by rjakapeanut

really inspiring stuff. i'm only 19 but that's a big dream of mine -- to have a really vast library full of the books i love. i really like alot of the setups on that site.

right now i don't have many books (and several of them are random fiction/fitness/clothes books) but i read each of these and i have a pretty simple book setup:

just a couple of bookends i got from office depot. i want to have bookshelf walls like in those photos one day.

How is that Schwarzenegger book? I've had my eye on it.

romafan · Jun 24, 2010

Originally Posted by T4phage

you have books ?

iirc, af turned his library into an entertainment nook (tv, styrostereo,etc)

rjakapeanut · Jun 26, 2010

Originally Posted by Reggs

How is that Schwarzenegger book? I've had my eye on it.

pretty damned useful. pretty much exactly what it says it is: an encyclopedia for any exercise. explains how to do them, what they work etc.

i paid $20. would def kop again.

teddieriley · Jun 26, 2010

Nerds.

radicaldog · Jun 27, 2010

There is something chic about the Ikea Billy bookcase.

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