House made of bookshelves

[wellinghall]

http://morita-arch.com/selected-works/houses/shelf-pod
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Wantwantwantwantwant.

Comments

[muninnhuginn]

Gorgeous.

As always with this type of bookshelf/library based design, I do wonder a little how it will look when every single shelf is full (with a jumble of colours and sizes of books, probably) rather than the tasteful few books and ornaments.

Still, I can see the appeal.

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

I think it would look absolutely perfect with full shelves as you describe, but I know from experience not everyone would agree!

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Ignore those people. If your house had a perpetual motion machine or something that would generate infinite usable energy from sewage, they would probably be against that too. ;-)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

All you have to do is shelve your books by spine colour and size ...

[muninnhuginn]

Some of us like alphabetical order.

(I did once have an entire shelf of black-spined paperbacks that looked rather cool tho'.)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Our SF and mainstream fiction are largely shelved alphabetically, but nothing else is.

[widsidh.livejournal.com]

mine are shelved thematically, with some considertaion taken of size and colour within that...
(Well, more or less - they are still in some disarray from a house move a couple of years ago)

[gurthaew.livejournal.com]

DO NOT SHOW THIS TO APADEMEK!

[chris-maslen.livejournal.com]

Very cool! However I note the lack of a bedroom or a kitchen.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

We appear to be working towards this ideal, and have done two rooms so far. I can see the third room happening to make room to allow both a fiction and non-fiction library.

Though this will cause problems with the allocation of the Arthuriana & folklore section. Hmmm.

[widsidh.livejournal.com]

I'm slightly worried about storing paper in the bathroom...