Nothing gets my heart racing like a home overflowing with books. People who read and cherish books are people with big imaginations: dreamers, and scientists alike, and people that keep books keep knowledge that can endure for centuries.As a kid, I designed libraries, sketching the plans in the back of my notebooks in school. Libraries with turrets, with rolling ladders, and with leather seats. Some had skylights, others had secret doors behind bookshelves. All of them were fabulous, I can assure you. As an adult, I take inspiration from these libraries, the people who built them, and the bloggers, like Bookshelves and Late Fees and Bookshelf Porn and F*ck Yeah, Books that dedicate themselves to blogging about bookshelves. I could spend HOURS pouring/drooling over the pics on those blogs!
A secret room behind a bookshelf. My childhood (and adulthood) dream!