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 . . .

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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 . . .

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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 . . .

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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 . . .

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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’, . . .

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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: . . .

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