As promised, I finally have enough of my stuff put away that I can show off some pictures of my new library/office in our house. The photo above is a view of the living room while standing on the stairs to the second floor. The front door is to the left, and my library is to the right. You can see one of my bookcases right behind my awesome reading chair.
This photo is a view looking at almost all of my office/library. I’ve basically taken over this room for myself. Boyfriend has a room upstairs for his desk, tv, and favorite chair. What I love about the room is that every single wall has a bookcase, meaning when I sit at my desk I’m basically surrounded by books.
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These are my two tall bookcases. The bookcase on the left has two shelves of read fiction, two shelves with review copies, and a bottom shelf with some random notebooks, poetry, and graphic novels. There are some YA and fantasy books sitting on the top. The bookcase on the right is all of my read nonfiction: regular nonfiction on the top shelves, memoir in the middle, and journalism/textbooks on the bottom. I also have my YA series books on the top (Harry Potter and His Dark Materials). The Hunger Games series will go up there when I get them back from my sister. Please excuse the mess on the floor — we’re still getting settled!
This is the part of the room I’m currently struggling with. The bookcase has all of my unread nonfiction that I’ve bought myself. But I ran out of room on the shelf for my unread fiction, so I had to improvise. I used these black customizable shelves to store my DVDs, big binders, fiction, and other random stuff for the moment. I still haven’t decided what I want to do with this section in the long term. I’m leaning towards a nicer shelf under the window, or trading the three shelf bookcase for a tall bookcase like the other two. But I can’t decide, and I’m out of money for new furniture at the moment!
So there you have it — my currently in progress library at our new home. I love having all of my books in the same place, and seeing them all arranged this way makes it seem like packing and moving the 18+ boxes from Madison to Morris was worth it.
P.S. I just saw the e-mail letting me know I was nominated for Best Nonfiction Book Blog for Book Blogger Appreciation Week this year. Thank you to the person/persons who nominated me — that’s so flattering! Anyone else get nominated for any of the categories?
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Congratulations on the nomination, that’s fantastic! And I love a room full of book shelves, it just feels so comfortable and homey
Doesn’t it though? I may start shifting to more ebooks for convenience, but I’ll always want physical copies of my favorite books nearby.
Fun pictures! Your new house and rooms and shelves all look awesome!
YES! I was nominated for best eclectic blog, and it’s totally making my day! 🙂 This is a first for me. Congrats on your nomination too!
Thanks! I think it is all starting to come together, at least for the moment. And congrats, that is awesome.
Lovely shelves, thanks for sharing! Also, congrats on the nomination 🙂 I was nominated for cultural and GLBTQ.
Yay, that’s so awesome for you! Do you know which one you’re going to pick to compete in?
Your new set-up looks fantastic – I too love being surrounded by all of my books. You’re clearly better at moving than I am as I still have boxes everywhere!
Congratulations on your nomination! I just got nominated for Historical Fiction, which is exciting. 🙂
There are definitely still some boxes in different places, but most of the ones in my main spaces are away. I got tired of stepping over them (and the boxes of books were taking over the house!). Congrats to you!
Holy cow, you got organized super fast!
I had a lot of help from the boyfriend and from my sister 🙂
I love that idea of being surrounded by books!
And congrats on the nomination. Jenny and I got nominated for Lit Fic and Eclectic.
I wish there was room for a chair in the room with the books, but my big reading chair is very close by. Congrats to you guys too!
Wow girl, love the pictures!! Totally awesome! And congrats on the nom – I got nominated for the Lit Fic category.
Thanks! I really like the way things are coming together. Congrats to you as well 🙂
I love that you get to be surrounded by books in the office! 🙂
Congrats on the nomination! I got an email about being nominated for NF too, I feel very humbled!
I do too, I’ve always wanted a library 🙂
And yay, that is awesome!! I hope the nonfiction category is really big this year.
Congrats on the nomination!
I love the shelves. Don’t know if you’re privy to Bookshelf Porn, but it’s at bookshelfporn.com and updates fairly regularly with fresh bookshelf imagery!
Keep up the good work.
Oh man, I love Bookshelf Porn. I drool over those bookcases every day.
Great pictures! I love seeing people’s bookshelves.
I do too, it’s so fun to see how people organize their shelves.
I love offices like that! The house is looking lovely!
It is nice. It has some quirks, but overall I really like it.
How cozy! I love the prints you have on top of that last shelf.
I got those at an art festival in Wisconsin. I can’t wait to hang them up once I get the bookshelf situation figured out. I just love them.
I would love to have every single wall with a bookcase too. Love your bookshelves, thanks for the tour…
I’d love to just build in some awesome shelves, but since we’re rending that’s not an option. Someday though 🙂
Thanks for the library tour — things are looking great! Very cozy, to be surrounded by books.
Congrats on the nomination!
Yes, it is cozy. It makes me happy every time I see them.
I love the tall dark shelves you have!
Me too! They’re a little dinged up from the times I’ve moved them, but still in decent shape. I just got them at Target, so not too expensive either.
Congratulations on the nomination! I was nominated for Best Literary Fiction blog, which is really exciting. I am jealous of your super-comfy reading chair. It looks amazing!
That’s awesome, congrats! And yes, be jealous — that chair is one of the best things I’ve ever purchased 🙂
What beautiful bookshelves! And that is some very nice makeshifting you’ve done there. At my last apartment, before I acquired my current desk-with-shelves, I used cardboard boxes. It looked awful.
Congratulations on the nomination! It’s very well-deserved.
If I didn’t have the wire shelves, it would have been cardboard boxes. Books have to go somewhere!
Love what you’ve done with the place! I especially love the way you’ve painted the walls. It gives the room such a nice cozy feel… perfect for reading!
Actually, I didn’t paint the walls — the house came like that. Our landlord lived here before we did, so I think she must have done the painting. The quirky stuff like that is really growing on me.
I love the look of your library! Enjoy!
Thanks, I will!
Beautiful shelves, Kim! And I love how the walls are painted. Looks like you’re settling in very nicely!
And congrats on the non-fiction BBAW nod. 😉
One thing you can’t see in the photos is that there’s a bookshelf painted on the wall behind one of my bookcases. There’s lots of little painted details like that in the house.
I love it!
Thanks, me too!
Great layout ! Love all the books !
Congrats on the nonfiction nomination too !
There are so many books in this place! I really need to start reading the books I have instead of constantly acquiring new ones…
Is that Wilbur on your top shelf? Is there a little Charlotte in the shadows?
Ha ha, no, the pig’s name is actually Sean Connery. It’s a long story 🙂 However, there are more than a few spiders around here, so perhaps one will be a Charlotte.
How exciting to be able to have a library! And you have so much cozy reading room in it as well. I thought when my oldest moved out the first time that I would turn his room into a library/office/guest room but then he moved back. He’s gone again but left behind a bigger bed and now there’s no room for my office/library. Enjoy your space!
My parents are in the process of starting to renovate our rooms now that we’re out of the house, but they haven’t done much yet. I think my mom has big plans for a sewing room.