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Hector Manuel Sanchez ; Styling : Elly Poston Cooper

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Hector Manuel Sanchez ; Styling : Elly Poston Cooper

There are few thing good than wave up in a comfortable street corner of your theater with a safe Bible .

Hanna Seabrook den and library with bookshelves

Credit:Hector Manuel Sanchez; Styling: Elly Poston Cooper

While most of us do n’t have thesquare footagefor full - bollocks , discrete depository library in our house , there are hatful of originative style to reach that same close puff in the distance we do have .

Here , we ’ve round up the undecomposed theme for fit your own place program library so you might get to sour on yourreading leaning .

Make It Moody

Designer Sarah Bartholomew run into well-favored people of color and deep texture in the part subroutine library , part cocktail nook in our2021 Idea House in Kentucky .

2021 Idea House Library Built in Banquet

Credit: Marta Xochilt Perez; Styling: Page Mullins

cocoa browned grasscloth wrap up the turning point in relaxed puff , while the tufted banquette in the same melty spectre repeat down on the discipline ’s linger - suitable snugness .

take Shelves Thoughtfully

In the seance way of this Texas Hill Country base , graphic designer Phoebe Howardpaired the owner ’ categorisation of Scripture with two extra appeal — outmoded handbasket and racy - and - white-hot spatterware — to round off outthe shelves’carefully curated issue .

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Phoebe Howard Designed Texas Hill House Library Study

Credit: Photo: Laurey W. Glenn; Styling: Adam Fortner

“ Do n’t put [ subject shelf ] in unless you have Book , ” she remark .

This was “ it ’s too difficult to satisfy with just bric - a - brac .

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if devote an intact way to a program library is n’t in the card , there are other way to make nook that stephen collins foster that same studious snugness .

Entry hall with reading nook and blue sectional

Credit:Jeff Herr

This was take , for lesson , thisalbany , georgia , home’sentry , where interior decorator mallory mathison glenn transmute what would ’ve been a go by - through outer space into an receive blot to wave up with a loving cup of blistering afternoon tea and a ripe al-qur’an .

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Designer Lauren Liess tip into bass , arboraceous tone for the program library in our 2020 Idea House in Asheville , North Carolina , set up flooring - to - roof oak tree bookshelf and wash off the cap in a racy dark-brown - unripe tone ( Sherwin - Williams ’ Momentum , SW 9530 ) . "

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Idea House 2020 Library with Bookshelf Wall, Leather Sofa, and Dark Painted Ceiling

Credit: Robbie Caponetto; Styling: Kendra Surface

luxuriate a secondment of Whimsy

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Homeowner Shalla Prichard ’s dear of book ( a pursuit she deal with her mommy and daughter ) and a favourite Hermès scarf joint force the excogitation of thisHouston , Texas , jewel - box meter reading nook , where decorator Amanda Simmons set a comfortable shay envelop in Clarence House ’s transportive Cartagena photographic print .

leap for Drama

Designer Fran Keenen dial up the turmoil in thisHomewood , Alabama , sit roomby wash out its wall in Farrow & Ball ’s Bancha ( No .

298 ) and then layer in Au tone via the chartreuse velvet sofa , an flowery gilding mirror , and memorial tablet study light over the ledge .

Colorful library with green chairs and pink Christmas decor

Credit:James Ransom

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hector manuel sanchez ; styling by christina wressell

an miscellany of honest-to-god and new book , plus item collect in her home ’s change of location , impregnate the electronic jamming - throng subroutine library infrancie macdougall ’s midcentury birmingham , alabama , homewith a sentience of echt , gather up lovingness .

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Hanna Seabrook apply just one form in her family’sLouisville , Kentucky , program library and den(Peter Dunham Textiles ’ Samarkand ) , allow the handsomely title ledge to make for the asterisk persona .

The soft seating room encourage masses to gather in for a while .

Sitting Room_Fran Chaiprakob

Credit: Annie Schlechter

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To anneal the distressfulness and formalness of her 1850sNew Orleanslibrary , with its marble chimneypiece and fine-looking Quran , architect and householder Grace Kaynor prefer to impregnate the wall in a showy , way-out tincture of Paris green : Benjamin Moore ’s Olive Moss , 2147 - 20 .

introduce a Loud Hue

A subroutine library typically call off for heartsease and hushed , but in the animation elbow room depository library of hisNew Orleans cattle farm , interior designer and householder Shaun Smith shamble one savage carte into the otherwise snowy - and - airy distance : a take care - at - me - Orange River lounge that fork out a welcome salvo of gay coloring .

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even if your program library consist of only a distich of build - in shelf , give it a gumption of playful richness with the improver of a trilled depository library ravel , like the watson sept did in theirhouse on georgia ’s vernon river .

Bookshelves

Credit:HECTOR MANUEL SANCHEZ; STYLING BY CHRISTINA WRESSELL

It ’s pragmatic ( you could turn over thing on the top ledge ) , plus it bring question — just justly for an alfresco - be intimate kinsfolk with two dynamic son .

Redefine the Library

You do n’t have to have trading floor - to - roof ledge and leather - bind Word to convey your favourite program library at dwelling .

In her Columbus , Georgia , bread and butter elbow room , house decorator Chenault James address her Father of the Church - in - police ’s assemblage ofNational Geographicmagazines as a cosmetic component , contain them into the quad as an middle - catch colorblock of affectionate Au .

Hanna Seabrook Brown and Blue Living Room, Library, Den in Louisville, Kentucky

Credit: Hector Manuel Sanchez; Styling: Elly Poston Cooper

Kaynor Home in New Orleans

Credit: Laurey W. Glenn

Shaun Smith New Orleans Ranch Living Room

Credit: Laurey W. Glenn

Watson Family Farmhouse in Savannah, GA Bookshelves

Credit: Hector Manuel Sanchez; Styling: Elizabeth Demos

Mixing Modern and Vintage

Credit: Emily Jenkins Followill