Wow. This is every book collector's dream. It's a French Country House Library constructed from 60 Billy / Benno Bookcases from Ikea. How wonderful. Lots of pictures and text showing the project start to finish with instructions HERE. View a slideshow on Flickr with really large photos here. I'm impressed, aren't you?
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You know I am now having a case of library envy, right? If I had that gallery, I would sit in the chair and only get up to reshelve a book and take out another.
I love how the shelves even go over the doors, and that cozy chair and table in the middle of the hall just make it absolute perfection.
I thought you might enjoy seeing our library in our small historical town in Hudson, Ohio. This is one of the reasons I stay in an area with such long, cold winters. You walk in and your spirits lift!
http://www.hudson.lib.oh.us/HistoricalSociety/HistoricalSociety.html
Kathy
I've been wondering whether I could use Billy Ikea shelves all across one long wall of our dining room. This makes me think it could work.
Oh, what a beautiful home library!
As I sit here at the computer in my study I am surrounded by 8 of these Billy bookcases from Ikea. They are remarkable. I bought them almost 30 years ago in Toronto, and 10 years later took them all apart when I moved to the States. They are still almost as good as new.
Each shelf holds a double layer of books: when you pull out a book you find another book behind it.
The solution: less reading, a larger house, fewer books, or a change in attitude. So now I think of the public libraries as an extension of my study and depend on their book collections. "Borrow before buying" is my motto.
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