Dream Library
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I don’t think I want my books to have a special room to themselves, I want to live with them and be around them. I think I want to keep them in the living room and dust them on every third Saturday.
I don’t think I need a huge area for them either, only large enough to house my favorites. Libraries are for learning whether or not they’re my favorites.When I imagine my future house I generally imagine it to look like my Grandmother’s old apartment. A cracker box of a thing, even though I love spiral staircases I don’t really want anything very large because the cleaning and maintenance might be a little much for one person. (Yes, I’m odd enough to include realities like dustballs and bathrooms in my plans and dreams.) The living room is large with light colored walls and a looseyourtoes white carpet. No TV because the GMC is too expense and whenever I imagine myself with a TV I’m sprawled in a recliner oposite it wasting time. And I can’t afford to waste time.
Therefore without a TV I’ll have three walls worth of space, I’ll start my collection on the wall behind the couch. Floor to ceiling woodshelves broken up with pictures (like a black and white painting of a sewer entrance) and under the pictures low tables/stands for holding vases and nicknacks (like scupltures of the Eiffle Tower, &c. One of the stands will have to hold a radio/CD player and one of the spaces between shelves will hold a CD rack). In the middle of the room I’ll have a large coffee table for holding the currently readings and the chocolate and the pencils and paper. Also a couch, recliner, &c.And I’ll have a fantastic collection of bookends. If the world has enough interesting/pretty ones to offer me, that is.
[edit]And the light fixture will not be a chandelier, infact, I think I want a collection of pretty, intricate standing lamps instead.
What is left to say?
I love sliding ladders.
And large, comfortable chairs.
And generous selections of music.
And I shall put my books in the Dewey Decimal System.
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Quote:(like a black and white painting of a sewer entrance)Bwahaha–I need one of those!
edit again–Oh, finally thought of something. My public library has book quotes painted on the walls above the shelves–things like “You see, I don’t believe that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, and that’s been the main reason for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians.” Of course that would frustrate the whole bookshelves-that-reach-the-ceiling scheme but I love that idea too much to part with it.
Mayhap I shall print C.S. Lewis quotes in spirals on the ceiling.
That is cool, Alyosha! Spirals on the floor but they might be hard to read on the ceiling. *replaces some of the paintings with a placks (sp) of quotes* I’ll cover the ceiling with my favorite words. In black calligraphy; which will be marvelously difficult to paint.
They have amazing pictures in Hobby Lobby, BTW. Makes me wish I didn’t have to share a office (turned bedroom) with three siblings. A little wall and floor space would be nice. If I had somewhere to start a collection I’d start now.
But writing in black all over my ceiling will mean I’ll have to change the wall and ceiling color to musty yellow which won’t work with my white carpet. A black carpet might be too depressing. But I could do it anyway, it might work with my black and white checkered furniture and wood
coffee table.
Maybe wood floors? I do prefer wood over carpet for a library…
*has really gaudy tastes* Maybe I should expand a little and have two living rooms so people won’t need to see someone after they visit.
[edit]A skylight sounds nice but would get in the way of my writing… For a desk I want one of those really huge and expensive ones with dozens and dozens of cubby holes. But it will go in my bedroom and match my really expensive bed with a headboard made of cubby holes and built in underbed storage. *wiggles eyebrows*
Okay my dream room is a combination of all of yours!(You guys have such great ideas!
)We’ll start with the floor, it would have to be something very comfy and plushy, I don’t care much what color.
The ceiling would be full of sky lights, to let in light and to let me see the stars at night.
There would be a little (don’t want the books to catch on fire!) fireplace for the wintertime.
The walls would be COVERED with books. No paintings or anything.
A second level, with a spirial staircase, full of my favorite books, and a ‘secret’ passageway into a little out door room with a hammock and flowers (-cough- sunflowers) and vines.
No cd books (cause cd books aren’t books!) There would be nice lamps, and huge comfy, chairs that you could get lost in. The library would have a key that only I would have (and maybe one other person..Best friend?, but it would be a cool rustic old key.
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