Home Library
As anyone who has been reading my blog for any length of time knows, I'm a hard-core bibliophile. I've been able to read since age four and I grew up in a home filled with books, receiving books as gifts from my parents at every gift-giving occasion. As an adult, I'm continually in the process of adding new books to my collection, so that after 40+ years of acquiring books, I've currently got quite a sizable collection.
Right now, I've got more books than I have places to put them. I have seven bookcase filled to overflowing and more books are stacked in various places around my tiny home, including the back of the toilet tank. I'm in serious need of more shelving units, but lack of funds and an increasing lack of places to put new shelves hinders my plans at the present time.
If I had money and a big house, my home library would look something like the two following pictures:
Picture 3 is doable if you are handy. Should be cheap. L Brackets , screws
and !" x 8" x length of room.
If I had a room like that I would never leave. I have a bunch of my books
stored away. I swear I keep buying the same books over and over again,
because my copy is somewhere in the attic. Love to a fellow book whore.
Wouldn't it be nice to have libraries like that in your own home? I would
be in heaven if that was in my house...
I'm right there dreaming with you. When Lauren and I moved in together,
where to put all of our books was probably the most difficult question. We
had enough bookshelves, but not enough wall space for the shelves! We ended
up taking two short-ish, wide-ish bookcases and C-clamping them together
with the top one upside down to allow for the clamping. It's not exactly
elegant, but it does the job. To acquire additional shelf space on a taller
bookcase, we ended up using two milk crates with a board going across the
top of them.
