Home offices are now a staple part of the average household, whether that’s for putting in extra hours outside the office or for building your own empire. We expect a lot from our home workspaces, not only because they are a place where we sink many precious hours, but because they must achieve a seamless . . .
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A Book Lover’s Home With Mid-Century Modern Flair
Mid-century modern elements add flair to this cosy book lover’s home, layering contrasting colour over rich wood tone. Designed by Ni Dongbo of NDB Design, a lack of architectural features has been overcome with creative interior curations of sculpture, wall art and a literary treasure trove. Mid-century modern accent pieces are combined with contemporary components . . .
Product Of The Week: Light Space Life: Houses by SAOTA
Browse through twenty-three exceptional modern residential projects from around the world in Light Space Life: Houses by SAOTA. Pre-order it here. Recommended Reading: 51 Coffee Table Books to Entertain and Accessorize
Product Of The Week: Geometric Dog Statue Bookend
This feisty little dog statue bookend will sit and guard your home library in stylish geometric form. Get it here. Recommended Reading: 50 Unique Bookends For Book Lovers
51 Home Library Designs That Will Have Book Lovers Lost For Hours
Home libraries are places in which to escape, to become lost in the pages of adventure, romance, deep study or self-reflection. Whilst screens have their place in our modern lives, there’s nothing quite like cracking open a new paperback or revisiting an old favourite. The relaxation of flipping through those familiar smelling pages is a . . .
50 Best Reading Nooks We Have Ever Come Across
The perfect reading spot is not easy to find. Comfortable reading chairs and lounges can do the job – but the avid reader knows they need a proper setting. These 50 nooks and crannies consider the wants of the lover of a good read. Whether you’d like to hole up in a library wall, lounge . . .
Home Decor Gifts For Book Lovers
Books, books, and more books. Who can get enough of them? From the musty old smell of an antique bookshop to the crisp, white pages of a newly-bought piece, the allure of reading is one savoured and cherished. How can you share such a solitary activity with others? These forty-six finds, acting as gifts or . . .
Living Rooms That Sport A Book Collection
There are not many tasks more daunting when moving house than packing up all your books. Over the years, most people seem to acquire many square feet and even more pounds of books that have to be packed, moved, and stored. Wouldn’t it be wonderful, then, to move into a place that had a marvelous . . .
Reading Spaces
Reading nooks and home library areas are the perfect place to kick back and escape from the real world with a work of fiction, or to huddle down and study those textbooks. However you’d like to use your book nook, this compilation should hold some inspiration on how to make the most of your little-or . . .
Library Designs
If you have been following Home Designing for long enough you will know that we have a thing(or two!) for books. Architectural visualization blog Ronen Bekerman recently organized a giveaway that invited users to upload scenes that ‘showcased books being scattered’. This interesting thread gave designers several options to play around with, and as you . . .
Reading Corners
Let’s take a look at how Evermotion forum’s skilled visualization specialists have rendered out their takes on reading nooks, or on this grand scale, calling them as dedicated reading rooms may be more apt. Soft neutrals are popular in these spaces rendered by Blalank Studio, but striking slate gray, and bright striped schemes offer bolder . . .
Library Inspiration
Being the huge bookworm and dork that I am, I was eager to work on this post on modern libraries put together by our editors. Ever since I have dreamed of owning a place of my own, I have also dreamed of my own library room, complete with ceiling-to-floor, wall-to-wall, dark cherry-wood bookshelves. The books . . .
Bookshelf Fantasy
As it’s name suggests the blog BookshelfPorn (completely safe for work, we assure!) is for the avant-garde bookshelf lover amongst us. This delightful blog features a huge collection of bookshelves for any situation from the typical wall bookcase to the more humorous and perhaps less practical sculptural bookshelves. Bookshelves have long since been pushed to . . .
A Bookworm’s Dream: The Bookshelf Tower
Although this bookshelf staircase is not functional as a living space, let alone for reading purposes, it is a pretty clever space-saving solution. Even the speed reading bookworms would have trouble reaching enlightenment living in this enclosed structure- albeit housing an impressively accessible 6,000 books! But just for fun, let us observe Rintala Eggertsson’s ‘Ark’, . . .
Home Library Design
If you happen to be a book lover or a voracious reader, it is likely that you have built up quite a collection of books over the years. Home libraries help you organize your book collection, make it easier to find books and make reading fun and relaxing within the comforts of your home. Here . . .
Bookshelves As Room Focus
If you have been following us since September, you will remember some rather odd bookshelves we have featured here before at Home-Designing. Rather than going in the ‘odd’ direction this time, we lay more emphasis on how shelves can effectively become the focus of the room. The collections shown below are from two Italian makers: . . .