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With my luck, I'd end up either a) having the books I read most on the bottom of the pile due to weight/size issues preventing them going higher up or b) my cat would push the stack over and spend ages chewing the books up.

It might look a bit pretty in the right setting, but it's begging for a mess.

I did this for a while but was amazed at how many books you actually need to make it the right height. And how much dust they collect on every level. It might be the kind of thing where going to a thrift store and choosing books based on the spine colors is the best way to go...

It looks pretentious. It's one thing if these books are ones that you thumb through frequently and you happen to stack them next to your bed for late night reading. But it's another when a decorator selects for you coffee table books to display.

i looooooooooooove Nick Olsen's apartment.
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hmm soul, i didn't even consider the pet element...good point...!

not only am i a "get the urge to thumb thru a book and it's at the bottom of the stack" person but i'm known around my family as "stubby" since i'm constantly stubbing my toes on anything that, well, gets in the way of them. which would send the stack sprawling all over the floor along with the remaining more than a few drops of red wine in a glass that was sitting on the top of the stack and which i'd gotten up to refill to prolong the suspense of finishing the last few pages of harry potter...consequently my stacks are confined to table tops until i get some shelving for them.

Hey, I stack books like that because I hate having more furniture, can't afford those retarded DWR/CB2 shelves that MAKE your books 'look stacked', and I KICK ASS AT JENGA!

Yeah, quite a few Domino featured places have had this (I think mostly men's rooms or houses) I think the look is kinda cool and could be done in a relaxed, fun way instead of a "pretentious" way, however I wouldn't do it. Dust magnet, probably a pain to clean, and the chances of them sliding around or getting knocked over (with your poor lamp getting hurt along the way!) is very high.

Some magazine, maybe Glamor, has a shot of a girl sitting on a stack of magazines, which had been 'bound' together by a buckled strap. Same idea, but not even closely as polished.

if i did that it would be covered in cat hair

I think this can be a really good idea in the right space. I had a side table made of coffee table books for a while, purely as a space-saving measure. The books were oversized and didn't fit on my shelves. And I needed a side table and couldn't find one I liked. Voila: a pretty decent solution. I put a small tray on top so that water glasses didn't ruin the book on top.

I voted 'yes' because this apt. was featured in Domino and the whole place is really great. Great how he sectioned off a bedroom area with two beds and full of inexpensive ideas like this.