Tag: Books | Apartment Therapy

Adding Color and Texture with Books

Apart from those who color-coordinate their shelving, most of us don't think of books as part of our home's color scheme, but they are. Bookshelves add another layer of color and pattern to a room....

How To: Catalog Books with Your iPhone

We just discovered a way to painlessly make a digital catalog of our book collection using our iPhone to scan bar codes, which are usually embedded on the back of a book. To learn how, click below....

Hallways Lined with Books
Inspiration Gallery

Kyle from Apartment Therapy Boston recently had the idea to utilize a hall space for book storage. As lovers of shelving and books, we're into it. Browsing through some old house tours and posts, we...

Possible DIY? The See-Saw Bookshelf

There's a certain twinge of pride that comes with seeing a designer product and knowing you could make that at home for far less (or even at all). Often times those projects are shelving (hey we'r...

8 Ways to Label Your Bookshelves

My mom is in the middle of a big project: organizing her bookshelves. She wants to label the shelves with general sections (poetry, fiction, reference), but she doesn't want to use a basic label-mak...

Displaying Book, Movie & Music Collections
Inspiration Gallery

This month on Apartment Therapy we are looking at collections and even if you don't consider yourself a collector (no vinyl toys or blue & white porcelain at your house!) we bet you have a fairly siza...

6 Ways To Make A Staycation Feel More Like A Vacation

If heading out for a weekend away isn't in the cards any time soon, staying at home can be a great alternative. But sometimes, it doesn't feel much like a vacation. There's still the daily list of c...

DIY Project: Make An Inverted Bookshelf

We were raised in a family who more than love books. Often times when we see diy projects that utilize books in arts and crafts, the structure of the book can be harmed and it can feel a bit, well a...

Book Review: New Chairs
Innovations In Design, Technology, and Materials

There are books in our collection that we read once a year, once a week and once in a blue moon. Our latest find, New Chairs, acquired from the local Half Price Books has been a once a week type pur...

Starting A Home Library What Would You Suggest?
Kansas City Star

We caught at article in the Kansas City Star this past weekend on what books are great to start off your home libraries. Or rather, which books simply must be included. We liked the one's we saw an...

Retail Decor Inspiration: Anthropologie
Part 1 of 2

Sometimes the best part about shopping is the window displays. While we were out and about this past weekend, we came across some clever ideas used in retail spaces that could easily be translated i...

Heavy Read Stool by Laura Cahill

There's a definite visual appeal to books, so much so that some people even hire the services of decorating with books. This design by Laura Cahill takes that visual appeal and translates it into a ...

3191 A Year of Mornings: The Book

Great news: photoblog and color inspiration masterwork 3191 has arrived in biblioform. Sad news: the blog is forever down. So fans, buy now. ...

The Gallery: Paul Béliveau

Love those wall-to-wall books from Nate Berkus' apartment yesterday? Don't have the collection or don't want one for lack of space? Check out the paintings of Paul Béliveau... ...

A+ Storage Idea

There are certain things about school that make us all nostalgic. The smell of the library, industrial bathrooms and the way chalk floats in the air when an eraser is slapped against the board. C...

Books Lining a Console Table

We found this photo at Content by Conran and really like the way the books are lined up along the back of the console table. We did this along our mantle with all our white paperbacks a while ago......

Jamie's Bookcase of the Day

We've featured a few bookcases on AT:Chicago this week (here and here), and we were happy to see Jamie's link in a post to the "bookcase of the day" section of her blog, I Suwannee. For those of you...

How To: Make a Dictionary (etc) Wall

Here's a good weekend project (and a way to recycle some of those unread books). DIY magazine has a perfectly easy "How To" on how to make a dictionary wall. To get started, you'll need this: &b...

How To: Declutter Your Bookshelves

We've been working towards getting rid of one third of our books. Our bookshelves have overflowed to the point where we have books lining the mantelpiece and the tops of cabinets. Our goal is to whi...