Blank Books
I love books. I’ve always loved books. I think that every house should have at least one bookcase displayed semi-prominently in an appropriate location. I’m not even very picky about what kind of books it contains. Some people would turn up their noses at a shelf full of Grisham, Binchy, and Shreve. I don’t care if they are cook books, sports books, or comic books as long as they are somehow reflective of the occupants of the house. Books warm up a room and lend character and history to a space. I find a house without books to be rather soul-less.
Consequently, when I was looking through last month’s Traditional Living, I just was so annoyed by the room featured below:
Here’s a couple closer views (please forgive the bad scan):
Why are all the book wrapped in white paper? What earthly good does that do? I’ve seen this done on shows like “Sell This House” which is fine. That’s for a specific, temporary purpose. But as a design concept for a room in which people are allegedly supposed to live? No. It’s not only stupid from a practical standpoint, but it defeats the entire point of having books in a room. Talk about soul-less. I’m just disgusted.
Posted in Home Decor
June 18th, 2008 at 11:59 am
My favorite look for bookshelves, which I’m going to get around to doing one of these days, is to have them grouped by color. Of course, they need to actually have color…
June 19th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
Ewww. Hate it!
Janey, I saw that idea recently–maybe in Domino? It looked lovely.
June 20th, 2008 at 12:17 am
Hey, I have no problem with artistically and/or decoratively arranging books for maximum effect, but papering over the spines — absurd!
July 9th, 2008 at 8:35 pm
Try searching for “tete a tete sofa” on google - this furniture piece became popular in France during the Rococo period.
June 22nd, 2009 at 3:54 pm
A friend of mine had a story about going to a party and his estimation of the hostess dropping many many points after wandering over to the book case, and realizing that the books were grouped by SIZE and nothing else.
There maybe a practical element to this but how on earth does one FIND anything like this? (admittedly, this is coming from someone who’s probably going to have to switch from alphabetical by author to Library of Congress, soon.)