I’m constantly tweaking all of my bookshelves to get them just right. I’m taking a pretty orderly approach but these slightly messy ones always appeal to me too.
We can’t leave out everyone’s favorite room:
What do you think? Are you fan of the slightly disheveled look like me?
(Photos: 1.via Ill Seen Ill Said 2.Lonny 3.via Eric-Z 4.Country Living 5.Melanie Acevedo)
I feel like I’ve been organizing and styling the built-in’s in our family room forever. That’s probably because I have. They look like this one, only smaller:
Here are the photos of white shelves I’ve been using for inspiration. I’ve always loved how this one is styled:
This one is also beautifully styled:
But my favorite shelves are the ones with lots of books and just a few interesting objects thrown into the mix like these:
This is also the most practical since I have a ton of books.
What’s your bookshelf style? All books? Lots of tchotchkes? A mix?
(Photos: 1-3.Lonny 4.Emily Henderson 5.Martha Stewart 6.via Desire to Inspire)
When I went to stock up on magazines for the flight back from Italy, I headed first straight for these two. Then I saw the similarities: walls of books and the pops of yellow. Remember my fixation on yellow chairs? Well, I’m still fixated. And I always, always love a good bookshelf. Despite my design ADD, some things are a constant!
Elsewhere, my monthly post for Seattle Homes & Lifestyles has been published. It’s all about why grasscloth is so hot right now. You can check it out here.
Do you love books (like I do)? Do you have a million of them all over your house (like I do)?
I’ve always liked the idea of having a library for all of my books:
When we moved into our house, I planned on using one of our spare rooms for one. But as I was shifting all my books around, I realized it wasn’t the most practical idea.
For example, when I’m in my office working on a blog post and I want to reference something in one of my design books, I want those within easy reach.
So what I ended up doing was categorizing my books and disbursing them throughout the house: art/photography and travel in the family room, interior design in my office, cooking in the kitchen and novels/misc. in the upstairs hallway. So far, that’s working for me.
I’d love to know what everyone else does with their books. Where do you keep yours? How are they organized?
Have a good weekend, all! See you Monday!
(Photos: 1.via Automatism 2.My Home Ideas 3.Livingetc. 4.via Coco+Kelley 5.Wish 6.Marie Claire Maison)
I’m positively floored by this piece by Ron Arad. It was exhibited at MoMA recently and is called “Oh, the Farmer and the Cowman Should Be Friends.” (Hmmmm.) It’s not for sale, as far as I know, but I can see someone much more competent than me DIY’ing something similar.
How cool would this look in any house? Like mine, for example?
Name My Blog?
And now for something completely different . . . As I get ready to move, I need your help. (Don’t worry, I’m not going to ask you to help move boxes!) I think most of you know how I came up with my blog name (I moved from the right bank of Paris to Seattle which is on the west – sometimes called left – coast of the US.) I thought the Right/Left thing was pretty clever but I never considered what would happen if I moved. If I were really clever, I would have thought that through given that we move like all the time. But I didn’t. And now I’m in a pickle.
So I need your help with my blog name. I’m keeping the “From the Right Bank” part of it because that’s how everyone knows my blog and it’s also my URL (www.fromtherightbank.com). What I need to figure out is what to do with “to the Left Coast” part. As I see it, there’s just no way to work the Right/Left thing into a new name but if you have ideas, please tell me! In the meantime, I’ve come up with a few ideas and would love your input. If you have a moment, please vote for your choice. And as I said, if you have other ideas, I’d love to hear them. Thank you!
I have always wanted a library. It’s one of those things I thought I’d have in my grown up house. I don’t have an entire room to turn into a library but maybe it’s time to carve out a space for one somewhere.
I’ve seen a lot of dining rooms doubling as libraries and I really like that idea. But even just a corner with a big comfy chair would be nice.
Or maybe in my studio?
Do any of you have a library? If you do, does it have another function or are you lucky to have a dedicated room? If not, where do you keep all your books?
(1.via Desire to Inspire 2.via Head Over Heels 3.Skona Hem 4.Sarah Kaye Represents 5.Marie Claire Maison)
