Insights into our house

[ailbhe]

	There is secret humour in the tablecloth
	The tablecloth hides Grate Sekrits!
	Library, east wall Emer is looking south
	Library, west wall
	Library, west wall and south window
	Library, north wall

Comments

[ai731.livejournal.com]

The new flat telly is a *vast* improvement. The old one dominated the room a little (even though you minimized the effect well).

[ailbhe]

The old one dominated the room a lot. The new one dominates the room a little. We're working on it.

I'm going to take photos of the library again tomorrow; we've changed some of the shelving again and it's looking a bit better.

What we really need to do is build built-in book-depth shelves for that whole north wall, with the telly set into a recess in the middle of them, but that leaves the amp (which does occasionally get used) and the speakers (ditto) sticking out like sore appliances.

[ai731.livejournal.com]

*nod* I really hope we can manage built-in book depth shelves somehow in the new place (when we find it - there's still too much snow on the ground here for us to be looking at property yet *sigh*). The Ivars that are our current bookshelves take up far too much space, and force a lot of double-stacking.

[taimatsu]

I covet your shelves :)

[hopeforyou.livejournal.com]

I love the rich rust colour wall and the fish print in back of the TV. And your library is very cool... Other than science-fiction, what kind of books do you have that would be representational of your tastes/likes?

[ailbhe]

In fiction, most of the SF/F is Rob's, and my fiction is, um, most of the rest. I have quite a lot by women. Quite a lot that I consider chick lit though I suspect it's mainly too highbrow to qualify. About two feet of Georgette Heyer.

The next largest section I have, other than general fiction, is biog.

Then travelogues.

Then parenting books.

I think mainly what my books tell you is that I like reading about people.

I have a very small poetry and drama section, and we share a shelf of dictionaries about the same size.

[ailbhe]

Oh, and I have a bookcase upstairs of my children's literature. More of that than any other single category.

[merryhouse.livejournal.com]

we've just used that colour in the new playroom - it's gorgeous.

[ailbhe]

I think it was originally called something like "African Sienna." Basically, it's orange. I like it.

[jexia]

LOVE the colour.

[misocrunchy.livejournal.com]

I love your library. I need a room of nothing but shelves like that.