Tag: books | Apartment Therapy

Consider A Glass Console Table

There are tons of tricks to make your small space feel bigger. Aside from mirrors, great lighting and floating furniture, consider using glass in your small space. We spotted......

How To: Make A Book Headboard

The other day we shared our dilemma about pruning our book collection down and what to do with the books we were getting rid of. Our options mostly consisted of passing them on to others. JessyRatFi...

The Last Taboo: Tossing Books

We've been trying to clear out the books in our house; coincidentally we came across an article that asked, if you're not enjoying them, why finish the books you start. But of course! And then we st...

4 Tips To Eyecatching Bookshelves

You just hauled home a couple of the Billy shelves from Ikea and spent a challenging afternoon putting them together. Now what? Load it up with those cartons of books that have been stacked around y...

The Book Brush by Arik Levy

Even with a heavy duty air purifier and regular vacuuming around the apartment, our book collection can be a pain to clean, gathering dust like a Katamari dustball. The books at the top of our bookshe...

Roundup: 10 Best Books To Curl Up With

We love magazines and style books with pictures, but for long flights and for getting really cozy at home over a long weekend or a long afternoon, we like to plunge into a book that steals all of our ...

Inspiration...Making Your Books Functional

We definitely are on a table kick lately and have one more idea for you. We mentioned Abby's post on alternative nightstand ideas in our DIY post today and wanted to highlight another resourceful way ...

Shopping at Your Local Library

We had a guy friend in college that used to check out books from the library to impress his dates. He'd check out super pretentious authors and titles and lay them around his apartment and his unsusp...

Look! High Open Shelf

If you're tired of your plain Jane boxy apartment with very little character, consider this option: install a floating shelf about a 2-3 ft from the ceiling to display framed photos, art, collectibles...

Look - Kylie Stillman’s Book Carvings
Melbourne

Having a love for old patterned Readers Digest books because they look so pretty we were excited when we saw them being used for book carvings. Kylie Stillman has carved to scale bonsai trees into th...

25 Design Books To Add To Your Collection

We love using design books to gather ideas, pictures, resources, inspiration - you name it! Flipping through the pages of these informational and inspiring books always proves for new ideas in our ho...

Hot or Not? Using the Fireplace for Storage?

Personally, we're a bit torn about this storage idea from Beach Studios. We like the use of the fireplace space, but we're not so sure about the execution (looks too willy-nilly for our anal-retentive...

Look: Nicholas Jones, Book Sculptor
Melbourne

We may have a theme here with artists re-fashioning everyday objects into beautiful new forms – which have a new life again when displayed within a living space. Our find today is Nicholas Jones, Me...

Books in the Rafters Update: Affordable Lighting

The Look! Store your Books in the Rafters Post was a pretty popular one, so we wanted to update everyone with what's been done for lighting: ...

The Bookscreen
Australia

Let us present to you The Bookscreen, a lovely alternative to the more common variety bookcase room divider. Features include DIY potential, eco-friendly recycled materials, eye catching design, and c...

Mission Accomplished: The Closet Library

Certainly the biggest guilty secret in our apartment has been the state of our walk-in closet, where things went in, but seemed to rarely depart. But thanks to a few yard sales, following some of our ...

Book Decor: For People Who Can't Read Good

Considering my girlfriend and I spent the great part of Saturday reorganizing our whole apartment to accomodate for our ever-increasing book collection ("Hmmm, do you think we can put a shelf above th...

Best Bookplates

Ever loan out a book from your collection and then completely forget who you loaned it to? Then realize that you didn't even put your name in it? Protect the books you want to hang on to. Consider ...

Look! Book storage behind a door
The "Sticklebook" via Marie Claire Maison Feb/March 2008

In a small space, every surface counts. We spotted this interesting solution for paperback book storage in the February/March 2008 issue of Marie Claire Maison. They actually had a whole section devot...

Look! Library in the Bathroom
HOME magazine March/April 2008

For the gentleman that prefers to soak than to shower, this bathroom could be a dream come true! This handsome design is from designer Candice Olson, who installed built in bookcases flanked around a ...

Taschen Warehouse sale this weekend!

Who doesn't love some art and design books?... Especially when they're 50-75% off! This weekend, Taschen is having thousands of slightly damaged and display copies on sale for 3 days only. Luckily w...