Morning Meanderings… Come Into My Reading Room

Published on by Sheila (Book Journey)

Happy Saturday all! 

I love days that are wide open and this one is…. well not completely, I do have a couple of commitments this morning but as I get into the afternoon it is a get out of whatever free card!  😀  I will not have to leave my house…unless I want to…. I can read or write or bake, or work out, or watch a movie… or all of the above! 

For Saturday Snapshot today (*waves at Alyce*) I thought I would take you inside my book room….its been awhile since I have posted pictures of it and the space has quite a history…

Come on in!

 

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... center wall

 

The History:

  • Originally growing up this was two bedrooms – one was mine, one was my great grandmothers
  • in 1996, after I inherited the home, the two bedrooms were mine and Al’s and our son Justin’s
  • After we remodeled and finished the basement off the two bedrooms became our son Brad’s and a spare room
  • In 2001 we took out the wall between the rooms, remodeled it and became our home office
  • In 2006 we moved our office down to our business and this room… became my library 😀

The Books:

  • Personal collections (upper shelf around the ceiling)
  • Books purchased at book stores
  • Books from Library sales
  • Books given to me as gifts
  • Books picked up at estate sales (hello original Nancy Drew hard covers!)
  • ARCS
  • Books I have won

They are about 50% read. 

Stop over to Alyce’s At Home With Books and see others posting for Saturday Snapshot. 

I would love to hear where you keep your books!  I think it is fascinating how we collect them and how we store them!  😀

56 thoughts on “Morning Meanderings… Come Into My Reading Room”

  4. 50% read! Wow! I would love to step into your reading room and have about 30 minutes to shop!!! Thanks for sharing…I love it!

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    1. I always invite friends over to borrow books… I love to share the treasures. Last night a friend of mine pulled one out that I had read a couple years ago, and seeing it in her hand the memories of the book came flooding back!

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  8. What a beautiful room! I love it! Do you keep a chair in there for reading? It looks like it has lots of natural light.

    I have a spare bedroom in my apartment that is my “office” where I have my desk and laptop and I also have a big bookshelf against the wall where I keep a lot of my books. In addition I have stacks of books on the floor and on my desk (I really need another bookshelf!) and I have a small nightstand/bookshelf in my bedroom where I keep my favorite books. If I ever own a home I hope to have a room specifically designated as a library too with a comfortable reading chair. It would be heavenly 🙂

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    1. I did have a chair Christina, then I gave it up when I bought my hubby a tv for our upstairs sitting area in September and gave the chair for him as a tv/relaxing space.

      I do miss my chair… I need to correct that soon! 🙂

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  9. Oh, I remember my first “visit” to your reading room, when I shared your post about it on my Potpourri blog.

    I like your additions, like the shelves that surround the room near the ceiling. A perfect way to add shelf space. I’ve thought about doing this, too.

    Thanks for sharing…and for visiting my Saturday Snapshot.

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  10. Impressive room! I remember you posting photos of your ceiling shelves a while ago, love this idea.

    I have books all over the house…

    I ran for 3 hours on the TM last night… my husband just landed in the US so I wanted to have the day open. It feels SO good to have nothing to do on a Saturday morning.

    Have a wonderful weekend!

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  12. Wow those are a lot of books-I guess that answers my question as to what you do with your books. I must confess that I give mine away after I read them-except for cookbooks. I figure let someone else enjoy them.

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    1. I do give quite a few away Esme and in the picture that has the door in it, there are shelves in there and that’s where I keep the giveaway books.

      But if the book is good… I hang on to it as I love to loan the books out to friends and family… 😀

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  13. oh my gosh…that is so cool! I love it. I am in the process of making one of the spare rooms upstairs a ‘book room’, but right now, they are all in stacks along the floor. I should take pictures sometime.

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  14. I wish I had a room dedicated to books and reading but mine are all over the house. Some in the bedroom, the family room, the living room… Of course, I would want to add a chaise lounge, a fireplace, a cozy throw, and a steaming mug of hot chocolate (in the winter) or a tall cool lemonade (in the summer). The lounge would be situated by a window overlooking the garden, with tall majestic trees shading the room from the heat of the sun.

    I am inviting you to join in a little fun with a game of tag. It’s a get-to-know your fellow book bloggers kind of game, and you’re it. Stop by my to join the fun.

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    1. Hi Shirley! Our timing was just right when the room was empty…. our sons were out of the house – one in the Navy, one in college…. and I had a big empty room 😀

      I still have two extra bedrooms for the boys when they come back in town 🙂

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  15. Oh I’m jealous. It’s beautiful! I just have a couple bookshelves in various rooms in my house for my collections. Can’t wait until kids move out and I can make a library.

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    1. I had a recliner in there Audrey but then I made a tv space for Al for his birthday in September and for the full affect, I moved my chair out and gave to his space.

      Yeah… I miss my chair 😛

      Someday I will replace it. 😀

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  18. What a grand space for your books! Mine are all over the house, mostly on bookshelves. I’m in the process of remodeling my office and hopefully will get a lot of them organized in there with some new shelves and storage.

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  19. Love it! I have books stashed all over the house. A bookshelf in my bedroom, night stand, dresser and a couple dresser drawers, living room shelves, basement, under the bed and a few other places. I would love to have a place to put them all and organize them. Now where is your reading chair?

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  23. Definitely jealous of your beautiful reading room filled with books. I have a whole day tomorrow free for reading and catching up on blogging. We’ll see if I can stay away from checking email and web-surfing.

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  24. I wish I had a room just for books! Fitting in lots of bookcases was the top priority when I moved into my apartment–and if I run out of space, I’ll just have to move again… I have the soul of a librarian when it comes to my books. Everything arranged by subject, and alphabetical by author. And as I saw mentioned somewhere in the comments, I also just spend time gloating over my shelves sometimes!

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    1. I have no rhythm to the current madness in that room… I tried once, I was going to go alphabetical by author but then I have some hard covers some paper backs and it didn’t look good. Now I just kind of “know” the vicinity of a book I am looking for 😀

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  26. Thank you for sharing your reading room 🙂

    I do love the extra shelving near the ceiling. Great idea and not taking up valuable wall space.

    Have a great weekend

    carol

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  27. I love that room! Love it! It’s perfect.
    I really like that idea of the far upper shelf around the perimeter, and I wish there was some way I could be allowed to do a similar thing here in my apartment. I have run clean out of room!

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