I live in a library.

January 29, 2010 in Books by AnnamalSF | 1 comment

A library or a storage room. The longer we live here, the more stuff we accumulate and the more stuff we accumulate winds up in piles everywhere.

I hate clutter. Like haaaate. It’s so easy to be cluttered when you live in a small apartment. I’m slowly learning to be resourceful and find new ways to store things – like the 10,000 books we (mainly my husband) have. I’ve been researching different ways to store and display books and here are a few options I found.

Color coordinate my shelves. I’d be down with giving it a shot.

Turn my books into furniture. Cool, but just one end table wouldn’t do. I’d need to make a whole couch or something out of books before I could use them all up. So this option is out I think.

Floating shelves. Love these! Even though I can only stack a few books on them, I still think it’d be a fun way to display some of our books.

Tower of books. Yeeaah, not gonna happen. Cool idea though.

Burn my books? Nah. I love this room though and if I had a broken fireplace I would totally do this.

Book mobile. Sure. If I didn’t want to read my books ever again.

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  1. Just Erin’s avatar

    Just ErinNo Gravatar on January 30, 2010 at 6:18 am

    I think the athro by me did the Tower last year as one of their displays – and I remember thinking awesome – but how would I ever get another book out? (I like your husband have too many books and like you both live in a small apartment). I invested in a large cheap bookshelf from IKEA and color coordinated (with the exception of keeping a few series). It’s easy to do and looks nice … and most important to me really easy to adjust and find what you’re looking for.