It's A Library!

 I feel like the title of this post should be "How I Spent My Icy Vacation."  This room is where I spent most of my time during the 3 days I never left the house Superbowl week.


I shared the before of this room here.  It is a very small room, with very little book shelf space, but we helped the situation with the addition of this bookcase.  It was kind of hard to find a bookcase that would work in this room.


First of all, I wanted it to be black.  The room is full of wood paneling and I'm not very fond of it but I wasn't going to change it.  I didn't want a wood toned  bookcase to add to the problem.  Black goes with everything in my house, so that's what I looked for, and I found this one.  It is the perfect size, not as massive as so many are, which was another criteria.


I hung 2 tole trays on existing nails, which is why they are so far apart.  I have a few more trays to add, once I get some more hangers, and then I will space them properly.   I really like the trays in here.  I may move those black and white plates and add a few trays on the other side of the window too.  We'll see.

We {I mean Bob and Laura} moved the love seat from our former home out of the garage where it has spent the last 3 years.  It is a cute love seat, but I just couldn't fit it in this house anywhere so I am hoping it will work out in here. {the black fringe does go on the bottom of the top cushions, I realized after posting that the cushions have that smooshed lived in look ~whoops!}

 I also moved the little tray coffee table in here ~ it had no home either.

This is the view sitting on the love seat.  The room has double doors and a pretty leaded window.  The view out those black windows is of our backyard and pool.

This bookcase is on the left of the fireplace.  I moved all of my fiction hardcover books to this case, and the black bookcase.  Yay ~ all together again!!

The doors underneath house my paperback fiction.  Most of that collection is at the cabin in Wisconsin, but I have a few new ones here and this will be just about the right amount of space.

This itty bitty bookcase holds fiction waiting to be read!  I am glad to have it in one spot so I can choose what to read next.  I LOVE to read!  These usually were in varioius piles all over my house. 


 One shelf holds my hardcover Christmas collection of grown up books, and the bottom shelf has books about books.  I have a few books that contain book lists and I love having them in one spot too.  In the cabinet underneath are travel guides and an empty shelf!  I love empty shelves!!

Please excuse the horrible lighting in this picture but I wanted to show the ceiling in this room.  {my camera stinks, a new one is on the list, I just don't know what I want}  It is a lovely coffered ceiling that used to have an ugly ceiling fan.  Bob recently hung this chandelier and what a difference.

  I included some close ups of my decorating books because I saw Penny of Comforts of Home showcase hers, and I thought it was a fun idea.  See Penny's here.  I do love to peek at peoples bookshelves.

So, there you have it, a little progress made in my library.  I am liking having the love seat in there, the grandchildren and I fit perfectly and I call it our storybook chair.  I keep a big basket of books on the floor for them to choose from.  I am going to be playing around with things on the walls but that's about it for now.

I am joining Kim for WOW US Wednesdays.