i think this is a great idea! perfect for my daughters bedroom. i love the way you can see all the books...great book shelfs. i could get my husband to make book holder things like those!! love it!

love love love this! and the blue/white stripes on the ceiling!

Love it too! The books and the stripes create such a fun space.

I've been toying with this idea for a while...but the wall I want to use is pesto. I think white shelves will be too much of a contrast. I don't want to leave the shelves wood/woodstain because it will look too dark. Not sure if pesto shelves on pesto wall will look too pesto-y either...

Am I the only one tiring my eyes out trying to read every book titles :) ?

So inspiring - I'm literally scanning my house for a wall to do this on as I'm typing.

I love this. I wish we had an extra wall.

It's very cute. But as the child gets older, I'd worry about them climbing the shelves to reach the higher books.

tchouquet, you're not the only one! When I saw this, I thought, "ACK! Must go buy my son more books NOW!!!!" That wall is just total eye candy. My son isn't a climber, so I wouldn't worry about him trying to get at the higher books, but I would think it would be a concern for more adventurous kids.

I can't see how the shelves are made and how they're installed. They look almost like 2x4s that have been bolted to the wall and painted. Anyone have any ideas?

Well you can tell I'm the mother of a climber - first thought "holy crap, my son would be scaling that in an instant." And I can just see the giant cascade of books falling down... ugh. It's nice to look at but definitely wouldn't work in my house, darn it.

My 3-year-old boy would definitely look at that and think "climbing wall!" He'd be at the top in about 2 seconds, probably throwing books down on his twin sister's head.

i think these shelves would be perfect for this: http://ana-white.com/2010/10/ten-dollar-ledges.html

i made some for my photography studio and they've been awesome!

I don't like this idea.

"Yes, let's put books for kids on high shelves where kids can't get to them and *read* them, so they will continue to look pretty and organized like that cool post on AT. Durr."

All my books when I was a kid were at kid level.

What a beautiful space. Love seeing books face out. I do agree it's a bit high up the wall esp for kiddo books. I'd elect for a series of prints or photographs above a 4th shelf or so. LOVE THOUGH.

this would also be nice on a large landing made into a reading nook.

Love the ceiling (more than the book display)! I'm more an advocate of kid-level stuff

I love the ceiling, however, my daughter is a climber. This would never work for us. But I do love it.

I featured it here:

http://nikkinicoleblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/my-daughter-is-climber.html

I have used this idea in my classroom. We used white rain gutters to achieve the effect. Tip: don't use the cheaper gutters, they will bend under the weight.

Library research confirms that forward-facing bookshelves increase a child's interest in books. So what if they can't reach everything; they can ask for help. We have a lot of books and would need to rotate them in out. How great.

Does anyone know where that chair came from? Looks PERFECT! :)

I was recently contemplating something like this for my son's room...there's some extra space over the window and on some of the walls in his room for narrow shelves like these. That way, I don't have to have a bookshelf taking up valuable floor space, and I can still display his growing collection of books—quite nicely, too.

Ikea sells white picture fram shelves that would be perfect for a project like this.

How do you dust the top shelves? With a ladder?
How fun.

We use book baskets on our bookshelves to accomplish the face-out book organization. Each basket is only 3/4 full, so the kids can flip through each basket to make their selection.

This looks great. But would paper backs stay put? These all looks like hardcover. As a decorative item this is good idea.

Right now I have book baskets in every room of our house. Under the dining table, around our bed, in the living room. I think that works the best. She also has a book corner in her room, which is great for some pretend reading time.

www.bluefroginthetub.blogspot.com

I made a wall that looks just like this using IKEA Ribba Picture ledges (very affordable!). We attached it to the wall using wall anchors and it is very sturdy and easy to install. The whole wall took us about 2 hours to do (and we're not very handy people).

http://domesticnotions.blogspot.com/2010/04/sophies-big-girl-room.html

My mother-in-law made a bedskirt for my son's bed that holds quite a few books. You can't see titles in the same way that you can with a wall display, but he can reach all of them. He cherishes the fact that his grandmother made it for him. You can see a picture of it here: http://oneurbanmom.com/2010/06/14/shared-boys-room/

There's this website which sells safer bookcases http://www.tidybookskidsbookcases.com/ they face the books outwards but seem much easier to use, still new over here I think.

great to see books treated with respect. We've been discussing ways to organizing both children and adult books too at http://bostonbookbums.com/2011/01/28/stack-em-up-line-em-up-organizing-your-books/

What a pretty way to curate favorite books. They're a fun way to supplement REAL bookshelves.

When our son was born six years ago, we built six bookshelves 36" wide x 42" tall. His room has two of them and they're near capacity. We'll have to go up the wall next--but they'll be 12 or 11" deep.

I know I'm super late on this post but I just have to say that this nursery has just about every "fad" design element in it... and I still love it. From the KCACO print to the stripes to the ghost chair to the LOVE typography, that little stool-thingy, and the front-facing books... it's all there.

So, for the posters who "hate" to see things overdone (a common theme in the posts), I must say if you love it, do it! Especially in the nursery. Look great.