Good morning! Happy Saturday! It is for me as the commitments today are low (WOO HOO!!!)
Yesterday I spent a little time on projects that I have put off for a while. One was cleaning out the freezer (always a delightful task) and the other was putting a little love into the book room. Let’s just say that the books that I bought mid August from the library sale were still in the room in the box I brought them home in.
With a little help from my audio friends, Eleanor and Park I went to work. Here are the pictures that I am putting up for Saturday Snapshot this week of the results of that project:
The room, that used to be two bedrooms when I grew up here, and then was Al’s office until we built on to the shop, became a book room about 7 years ago. It used to be an assortment of book shelves but last fall we had a friend of ours put wall to wall shelves in the room and wala! Here we are.
Next Friday I am having friends over for a Christmas brunch and I think we will sit in there! 😀
For today, this morning I am off to the gym with my friend Kate who makes me go when “I don’t want to!” but it is a good thing. 😀 This afternoon my project is to get started on making caramels for our office staff. Our Christmas party is Wednesday and I think this will be a fun gift… I will post pictures! 😀
Have a great Saturday! Oh and check out Saturday Snapshot!
Book Journey 
I love your book room! I’m working on persuading my husband to build one in our basement. However, most of my books are in electronic or audio format so it won’t be quite as effective, sadly.
I love the look and feel of real books… I am not sure I could ever cross over completely… besides, I have given some thought to this and in a Zombie Apocalypse there will probably be no electricity and my books will still work. 😛
Good point about the apocalypse!
LOL… it is how I justify my book obsession. 😀
Love your book room! Enjoy it.
Thanks, I do 🙂
With a table, that room is turning into quite the library.
I like the look of the table too Joy. It adds something and the history behind the table makes me happy.
Oh my!!! I absolutely love everything about this room!! Gorgeous!!
Thanks. I do too 😀
What a wonderful book room. Thanks for sharing your photos. The table is gorgeous also.
I love the room… it is my haven 😀
The table is a wonderful addition, and I love the shot where you can see the French doors leading into the room. I am a fan of those…and of rooms filled with books.
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Thanks Laurel. The room gives me such comfort. A lot of my friends are in that room 😀
I love the table, too! It’s an amazing find…and probably has an amazing history. I love stay at home Saturdays…love them…we are finally decorating the tree when I can tear myself away from The Burning Sky…and popping out to dinner tonight…date night!
I think you are the second person engrossed in that book that I have heard about today. I need to check it out 😀
Oh, yes, that’s my kind of a project! Love it!
It was fun and overdue 🙂
What a wonderful room for a brunch with friends!
Harvee
Book Dilettante
I am excited to do that. 😀
I am so jealous of your book room! It’s gorgeous. 🙂
Thanks Carrie, it was a lot of work to get there but I am very happy with it.
Oh, I am sooo jealous of you having a proper book room. We have a tiny house, so we have books in every room, and they spill our from shleves, and are stacked on and under furniture, and we can never find the book we want… My Snapshot is at http://goo.gl/Yar0fo
I used to have books everywhere. I know when we were first married there are books that I do not know what happened to… boxes of them… now if I could just find a way to scan them or record what I have.
Love the book room! 🙂
Thank you Grace!
The shelves look really good! I want to put in built in shelves. Lorrie told me if I buy the supplies he will do it for me next year. We will see if it works out! I am so sick of the cheap bookcases where the shelves bend.
That’s what I used to have – lots and lots of assorted sized book cases… I still have one in the closet that I never put together. 😯
Your room looks fantastic. Love the table – a great addition. It doesn’t look like it needs to be refinished. 🙂 Rug is very pretty.
What a great room to work and to read in.
Have fun on Friday at your Christmas brunch.
You may have seen this post I am linking to, but I am using it instead of a snapshot.
Elizabeth
Silver’s Reviews
My Saturday Snapshot
It will not be a lot of work Elizabeth, the top has a sort of fuzz on it from a tablecloth that I had been covering it for 30 years. I would like to sand it down and recoat it.
Wow, Sheila … your book room is wonderful, and I love the antique table. It’s perfect! I’ll bet you’ll have lots of fun at your brunch.
I love being able to incorporate the table into our home Beth… like your book, it is a piece of furniture with a history and I love that.
I love that room! A book lovers haven!
Thank you… I agree. I like to just sit in there with my cup of tea, surrounded by good friends within the pages.
Wow! your room is amazing!!!
Thank you. I am very happy with it.
I love your library and notice some empty spots on the shelves that need to be filled! lol
There is some space! (Thank goodness!)
What a room! I’d love something like that. I was astonished to see space on your shelves- so that is a possibility…. Your table is lovely.
Thanks, it is possible to have space… I have to occasionally weed for the local library 😀
I love this room! I want a book room (at the very least a book wall) in the next place we live.
They are sweet! I hope you have it Kim and you take lots of pictures! 😀
How great to have a book room. Perhaps you should call it “The Library”.
I usually call it the Reading Room. I have a vinyl sign to put above the door…just have not done it yet 😀
I have built-in shelves in my study. When my husband finished them, he said I would never fill them up. Ho, ho, ho! Speaking of, I hope Santa was watching when you did the freezer. You were very good, don’t you think? Love the table.
LOL i was good Barbara! That freezer was a mess! 😛 I already received what I wanted for Christmas… that is another post!
I’m very envious of a book room! What a lovely space 🙂
Thanks 😉
Oh I love your book room – love all those shelves along the walls. I so need a friend who’ll push me to go to the gym! 🙂 Happy weekend!
LOL… she is a good friend. I need that too. 😀
OK, I literally felt like I was in a Room of Requirement! This room is AMAZING! The table is PERFECT! The chairs, the shelves—EVERYTHING! Don’t be surprised if you don’t walk into the room one day and I’m curled up in one of those chairs or working on that table! See, THIS is the kind of motivation for me to finally learn how to apparate! 😉
LOL, come on over! 😀 Room Of Requirement…. hadn’t thought of that one before 😀
If I lived close enough—I would! lol Hence—apparation! 😀 See, my room of requirement would be nice-size library with a picturesque window view, a u-shaped desk area—fully equipped for writing, and a couple of cozy reading spots, a game table, and then some of the secondary necessities like food, water, a TV 😉
I always wanted to know how to use the floo network 😀
The book room looks so inviting and you found the perfect spot for that table. I would love to have a library room but I have to settle for shelves in my office. I have no trouble finding a freezer to clean out around here – never high on my to-do list though.
The freezer is not high on my to do list either 😀 I think I was just tired of digging for what I was looking for and things falling out when I did… *sigh* 😛
I’m laughing because I need outside motivation too. I just cleaned it because I couldn’t get the four frozen pizzas I bought onto the back shelf without emptying half of it out. At that point it was easier to just clean it and be done with it! Lots of room now. 🙂
When my son was home last week and opened it to look for something and things fell out I just looked at him and said, “Why? Why would you ever open that?” Then…. I knew I had a problem…LOL
Ah, tempted every time you’re near a fireplace, I bet 😉 I was never fond of the messiness, and after Harry’s mishap…although it beats getting splinched! lol
LOL… I am cracking up here. Got to love the Harry Potter references… it never gets old! 😀
So true! I can’t imagine it ever will for me, and I spent a few months truly immersed in it all, back with Half-Blood Prince was released. I had SUCH a blast 😀 I don’t do it as often—almost never, but whenever I’m around a fellow HP fan, it naturally comes out in certain situations 😀 I used to know it all—SO many little details—now I have to strain my brain for some of the simplest things *sigh*
Oh it looks gorgeous, all shots! Love the table too
Thank you Erin.
That table was a wonderful addition to your book room, Sheila. It adds a certain character 🙂 Makes me wish I had a room to devote to my book passion!
I do love it Mary! 😀
Wow lots of books 😀 I am still waiting for bf to make shelves in our new home
It is a lot of fun to know what you have and where it is… something I had never achieved before 😀
Wow! So many books! That looks great! I love that table too 😉
Thank you 🙂
Oh, that room! The PERFECT room — books right to the ceiling. So cozy!
That table looks like it would have a rich history. And stories to tell.
I would love to know the history of the table…. 😀
So many books. A reader’s dream. What do you need such a large table for? It’s gorgeous but large. I would probably put a couch in there (to nap) and a cushy chair for when I am awake and reading. LOL. I foolishly gave my loft to the kids. What a mistake that was.
It is a little big- but its more that I feel like we “rescued” the table from destruction. Long story but I didn’t like it sitting out in the garage. I may some day move it downstairs but for now, since I am going to be working on it, the Reading Room it is. 😀
Oh, Ti, take it back! Take it back! Unless—-them having the loft also helps you keep your sanity 😉
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I am loving that table more and more 🙂
So jealous of the book room, when i move out and get my own place the only requirement is a separate room just fr my reading area.
Ashley
Books Buying Beauty
I love it too… it is so peaceful… something about being surrounded by books….
Oh, Sheila, you said it *sigh* In fact, just today I spent a bit of time at Barnes (oh, what a shocker!) and found a book called THE LIBRARY: A World History http://www.amazon.com/The-Library-A-World-History/dp/022609281X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1387395667&sr=8-1&keywords=a+library%3A+a+world+history
It’s amazing! I got chills looking at these amazing buildings/rooms FILLED with books and most are so beautiful. The ambiance *sigh* I REALLY wanted it, but it’s expensive ($75). I decided to buy it for my bibliophile father for his birthday (in Jan.) since I got 30% off 😀 😀 😀 Yay!